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Scaling Together for Children and Families

A fully-funded, 12-month programme helping Kenyan organisations scale their impact, through expert scale guidance and meaningful collaboration with peers tackling related challenges.

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Scale consultancy and cross-sector collaboration, in one programme

The strongest paths to scale aren't built alone

You’ve found a proven approach for helping children and families in Kenya lead better lives. The challenge now is reaching everyone who needs it. 

  • Navigating big decisions about what’s next on your journey to creating impact at scale?
  • Frustrated that services for the children and families you help operate in silos?
  • Wish there were more opportunities to connect efforts and learn from others?

This is where Scaling Together comes in.

The programme pairs tailored scale consultancy with cross-sector collaboration, so you can scale with a clear view of how your work connects to others serving the same families, and with peers navigating similar challenges by your side.

What to expect:

Your strategy charts the way to greater impact. Collaboration strengthens it, and takes it further.

Our expert strategists will work hands-on with you to develop a sustainable strategy for creating change at scale in your context, with your assumptions tested before you commit resources.

Collaboration will run through the whole programme, so you can learn from each other, and see what more can be achieved together.

Fully funded: No cost to your organisation.

Country: Kenya

Deadline: 16 December 2026

Start date: February 2027

Duration: 12 months

Suitable for: CEOs; Executive Directors

Open to: Organisations with a proven approach in one or more of these areas:

Preventing Violence Against Children

Preventing Family Separation

Preventing Maternal and Child Mortality

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“

Going through Spring Impact’s support was a true game-changer for us. It completely shaped how we think about growth and sustainability.

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Nafisa Jiddawi Founder and CEO, WAJAMAMA

What you'll gain

1 A scale strategy built for your context
With one-to-one expert consultancy from our team, and insights from your peers, you’ll work through the big decisions that shape your path to scale, testing your assumptions before committing resources, and figuring out how to fund it for the long term.
2 Trusted peers to navigate scaling with
Through the good times, and the challenging ones. You'll get fresh perspectives and practical support from leaders who know your context, and are facing similar barriers.
3 Clarity on your role
Understand how your organisation's work fits into the wider system, connect efforts, find potential partners, identify gaps and explore opportunities to work together.
4 Insights from organisations that scaled
Hear directly from organisations who are already scaling, in Kenya and elsewhere, about the challenges they've faced, and how they overcame them.
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Who it's for

Kenyan organisations working to improve the lives of families and children, from birth to the end of primary school. We’re interested in approaches across these areas, including but not limited to:

  • Preventing violence against children: i.e positive parenting, school- and community-based approaches, shifting harmful social norms, and preventing sexual violence.
  • Preventing maternal, newborn and child mortality: i.e community health, maternal and newborn care, and nutrition approaches that reach families directly.
  • Preventing family separation: i.e identification and support for families at risk, strengthening community based services, linking families to social protection, strengthening household income support.

It could be the right fit if you: 

  • have a proven approach that’s shown results, i.e a programme, service or way of working (including advocacy or policy)
  • have the ambition to take it further, and the willingness to collaborate and share with others
  • might be thinking about scaling through health and education systems
  • can commit two senior leaders for around a day a month, and a project lead for around a day a week
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Why this approach

Many proven approaches reach the same families

Few get to see how they could connect

Why Kenya?

In Kenya, philanthropic funding and government priorities for children are strongly aligned. Working in a single country also means every participant organisation shares the same government structures, policies and funding landscape, so learning travels further.

Why these areas?

They often reach the same children and families but are rarely joined up, and each is a government priority. Kenya is a Pathfinder country for ending violence against children, has adopted ‘Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere (EWENE)’ to accelerate the reduction of maternal and newborn deaths and has committed to keeping children in family care through its care reform strategy.

The impact of our work

Scaling in practice

Over the last decade, we've supported multiple organisations improving outcomes for children around the world to meaningfully increase their impact.

Here's what some have achieved:

Reaching hundreds of thousands more people

Protect Children expanded its programme preventing child sexual violence to five countries, translated it into eight additional languages, and reached more than 500,000 additional people by partnering with local organisations.

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Embedding models within government systems

WAJAMAMA started as grassroots organisation in Zanzibar improving maternal and newborn health through group care, bringing pregnant women together for clinical care, health education and peer support. Now, they're working to embed this model in government clinics, reaching far more people than they could've alone.

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Working collectively to reform the care system

Working alone doesn’t get you very far in children’s care reform. So six organisations across East and Southern Africa have formed Rooted Futures to work as one, funded by the UBS Optimus Foundation, with us providing backbone support.

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Programme details

How you'll be supported

In-person convenings

2 across the programme

Two senior leaders from each organisation come together with the group. 

  • Convening 1: to get to know one another, map the wider system and each organisation’s place in it, and identifying key actors who could help shift the shared systemic barriers
  • Convening 2: co-created with the participants, depending on the group’s priorities and needs

 

Tailored scale consultancy

Intensive for the first 6 months, then lighter touch 

Hands-on support from Spring Impact scale strategists, including Kenya-based scale experts. Through workshops and coaching, you will:

  • Build a strategy specific to your context
  • Test assumptions before committing resources
  • Build sustainable funding models
  • Develop the internal capabilities and confidence to implement plans

Peer learning sessions

Minimum 4 across the programme

Leaders bring live insights and challenges from their scale work to the group, keeping each organisation’s strategy and the group’s collective priorities connected.

The impact goal

More children in Kenya leading safe, healthy lives in nurturing families.

Getting there often needs scale. And scale needs time, strong strategies, peers to learn from, and partnership. This programme seeks to build all, so your proven impact can make an even bigger difference.
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About us

We are scale experts

Our team’s diverse experience, knowledge, and commitment is the driving force behind Spring Impact. We are motivated by a shared vision to create, scale, and sustain maximum social impact.

Putting impact before growth

Most people hear “scaling” and think of more staff, more offices, more budget, more resources. That’s growth.

Scale is different. It’s when your impact expands faster than the resources needed to sustain it. It’s about closing the gap between what your solution currently achieves and the size of the problem itself.

We talk about it on the SVRI podcast

Grounded in research

We’ve carried out the first sector-wide study exploring how organisations in Europe successfully scaled the prevention of childhood sexual violence.

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FAQs

What does the collaboration involve in practice?

You’ll work with other participant organisations to understand how your work connects, share knowledge and experience, and find opportunities to strengthen your scale strategies. We’ll facilitate the process so you can identify shared challenges and where working together could make a difference.

How is this different from any other networks in the sector?

This programme combines cross-sector learning and action with tailored scale consultancy. You’ll work with organisations supporting different parts/aspects of children and families’ wellbeing, gaining a wider perspective of the system you’re operating in, while receiving hands-on support to strengthen your own path to scale.

Our work is advocacy or coordination, not direct delivery. Can we apply?

Yes. Influencing policy, building evidence, working through government and coordinating others are all valid pathways to scale.

What level of evidence do we need? 

The level of evidence required will differ based on the type of solution you are delivering. Spring Impact looks for clear qualitative and quantitative evidence of outcomes and a robust monitoring and evaluation process. The strongest forms of evidence are external or independent evaluations but we do not expect every solution to have this in place.

What matters most is that your evidence is grounded in reality, current, and suited to the case you are making to the funders and partners whose support you need.

What is the time commitment?

Two senior leaders attend each of the residentials and the online learning sessions other month. A project lead, who is ideally one of these two leaders, stays engaged with both your scale support and the group’s work throughout the 12 months.

We tailor our support to each organisation, so it can look quite different from one organisation to the next. Here is what the 12 months might ask of you:

At a glance

  • Your two senior leaders: a minimum of 1 day a month over the 12 months plus two residentials. 
  • Your project lead (ideally one of the two senior leaders): roughly 1 day a week on average plus two residentials.
  • Other team members involved in the consultancy (2-4 more people): around 10 days each over the 12 months.
  • The first six months are the heaviest. Support then moves to a much lighter touch.

Residentials

  • Two in-person residentials, each 3-4 days in one location in Kenya.
  • Both senior leaders attend each one. That is 6-8 days per leader across the programme, plus travel.

Expert consultancy

  • Who: 3-6 members of your team, including both senior leaders.
  • Months 1-6: about 1 day a month each, to:
    • take part in tailored, collaborative workshops with your Spring Impact consultancy team, in person and online
    • attend regular check-in conversations
    • build their understanding of Spring Impact’s scaling methodology
    • spend time testing your scale strategy and model
  • Months 7-12: much lighter touch, about half a day a month each, as you put your plans into practice.

Collaboration

  • Regular sessions about six across the programme.
  • At least one of the leaders who attend the residentials and consultancy must take part.
  • Allow a little time between sessions to follow up on joint actions.
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