Out now: "Scaling up" report series
A key challenge for any development programme is to scale up successful approaches and methodologies to speed up the path to sustainable development. Therefore the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility, lead by the CSCP, distills the lessons learned from the SWITCH-Asia project. In order to take it one step further, our team wanted to find out, what it takes to stick to the promising practices developed in the project. A series of scaling up reports containing the results is out now.
The projects funded under the SWITCH-Asia programme should employ ‘scaling-up mechanisms’ to multiply, enlarge and spread existing good practices. The projects might scale up ‘horizontally’ and/or ‘vertically’. Horizontal scaling up (or ‘scaling-out’) refers to the gradual roll-out of activities within a sector or to a wider geographic area. Vertical scaling-up focuses more on organisations and frameworks at local, regional and/or national levels, involving both actors in the direct supply chain and ‘enablers’ such as government and financial institutions.
Projects apply their own approach to scaling up, bringing lasting impact to a wider geographic area than originally addressed, to a critical portion of a sector, and to a large number of consumer groups.
In 2010, the CSCP launched a multi-year analysis of how these scaling up mechanisms were contributing to the effective mainstreaming of sustainable consumption and production in society.
Five major areas emerged:
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With Engaging Service Providers for Sustainable Consumption and Production the Network Facility hosted by the CSCP completed the series and we are proud to present them on the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility's website.
More about the SWITCH Asia Network Facility:
Project description
Project website