The power of scaling

Scaling the solutions upwards and outwards can create a greater culminative positive impact on communities, the environment and can reduce impacts of climate change. Replicating solutions into new geographical areas and integrating them into policies support local livelihoods, prevent health issues, manage disaster risk and preserve valuable ecosystems and biodiversity and thus achieve long term and widespread resilience.  

How do we assure successful scaling?

To be scaled, the initial solution has to respond to the need of the community at the local level, and it should be focused and effective.  Communities themselves must be fully included in the decision-making processes and social differentiation such as ethnicity, caste, class, gender and ableism, among others, need to be factored in to ensure that all voices count in the decision-making process.

What are the next steps?

Up-scaling and out-scaling is the next step in terms of building resilience. This requires investments, time and effort as well as careful consideration of local context. Experience gathered over the years has identified some specific factors that are essential to include from the very beginning to increase chances of success and achieve the long-term vision.