Scaling innovations: designing and implementing impactful

Academic year 2014 / 2015
Paris School of International Affairs
Spring semester
Scaling innovations: designing and implementing impactful
development programmes
Course seminar by Isabelle HOYAUX
BIOGRAPHIQUES
Titre : International development expert - Entrepreneur
Organisation/Affiliation : ScaleChanger
Courte biographie :
Isabelle Hoyaux is an expert in international development and social entrepreneurship, in Africa, Asia and
Europe.
Having graduated from Imperial College (UK) and the ESSEC Business School (France), she began her
career as a strategy consultant at L.E.K. in London. She then turned to the social sector, working for the
French non-profit voluntary organisation Unis-Cité, where she was responsible for private fundraising and
then became administrative and financial director.
Development specialist, she then joined the NGO Right To Sight to replicate an innovative solution to
access health care from India to Africa.
She then led the CIDR, Centre International de Développement et de Recherche, an international aid
organisation with 50 years of experience leading innovative programs in Africa in the fields of
entrepreneurship, food security, microfinance, health and local development.
Ms Hoyaux was elected board member of Coordination SUD, the French aid organisations platform.
In 2014, she founded ScaleChanger that supports the scaling of social innovations (www.scalechanger.org)
OBJECTIF DU COURS :
This seminar aims:
- to provide solid foundations to and understanding of international development project design, negotiation,
implementation, evaluation, dissemination to understand the major strategic and operational issues and
challenges that the various stakeholders face.
- to develop indispensible skills in project design, strategic analysis, partnership development and impact
analysis.
- to provide the critical tools, techniques and skills used by NGOs and the major international bilateral and
multilateral organisations (European Union, French Development Agency,…) as well as private foundations.
PLAN DE COURS
Specific readings will be provided before the sessions. Key experts’ intervention is subject to their
availability.
Session 1: (titre) Introduction to international development and project management – approaches,
actors, issues, project cycle; launch of the group projects
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) :
Session 2: (titre) Designing a project and its intervention strategy – needs assessment, stakeholder
analysis.
Lectures imposées : EU project cycle management part 1
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) :
Session 3: (titre) Planning the project – programme documents, logical framework, budgets
Lectures imposées : EU project cycle management part 2
Lectures recommandées:
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Analysis of an innovative programme and its intervention strategy
(objective, approach, partners, results, activities, key factor of success, exit strategy)
Session 4: (titre) New approach: social business
Expert from Social business / social enterprise sector
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Analysis of a social business (activity, economic model, social impact,
challenges)
Session 5: (titre) Building strategic partnerships
Expert on Multi actor programmes
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Analysis of an innovative partnership (presentation of the partners,
objectives of the partnership, results, added value, challenges faced)
Session 6: (titre) Mobilising the necessary funds – institutional and private funding, impact investing,
crowdfunding
Expert from funding sector
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : preparation of a case study : identification of potential partners for a
specific project
Session 7: (titre) Designing an effective monitoring and evaluation system
Expert on M&E systems
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Analysis of M&E systems and impact measurement
Session 8: (titre) Implementing the project and adjusting operations when necessary
Expert on NGO programme delivery
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Identification of key challenges of project implementation and solutions
Session 9: (titre) Capitalisation, evaluation and steps to scale successful programmes
Experts on capitalisation and evaluation
Lectures imposées : Article on knowledge management
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Analysis of a knowledge management programme (methodology,
approach, strengths, challenges, recommendations)
Session 10: (titre) Beyond the project - dissemination of findings
Expert from large scale initiative
Lectures imposées : Case study on Aravind Eye Care Hospital
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : Analysis of dissemination and replication strategies to change scale
Session 11: (titre) Presentation and discussion of group projects
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : presentation of each group project findings
Session 12: (titre) Presentation and discussion of group projects & Future perspective of scaling
the impact of international development programmes
Lectures imposées :
Lectures recommandées :
Travail à fournir (le cas échéant) : presentation of each group project findings