Extra resources for scale up
Extra resources to scale up behaviour change interventions
The following are resources for scale up that we've identified a potential need for based on feedback, but have not yet fully developed.
Please help us to prioritise by letting us know if you are facing these or other problems when it comes to scale up in your organisation. We would also welcome recommendations for resources used by you and your team for scale up.
Understanding systems
Planning phase
Ask questions like:
“Who needs to make these changes?
Who has the power?”
Consider using systems mapping to understand the area.
Complete the Scaling Assessment Map
Policy and government contexts
Planning phase
Use something like the Rapid Framework to understand the role of relevant actors and activities in achieving your aims
Identify 'policy windows' within the political cycle
Seek 'Kairos': the key time to act
Identify and communicate goal interdependence to relevant groups to drive desired behavior
Coordination
Planning phase
Understand and and plan to maximise collaborative capacity.
Identify and communicate goal interdependence.
Implementation phase
Maintain and maximise collaborative capacity and goal interdependence
Executing scale up effectively
Planning phase
Set goals using approaches such as SMART.
Create and communicate accountability for achieving these goals.
Co-design interventions with the implementation partners and end-users
Create shared sense of ownership
Reduce risk that you fail to understand the implementation domain or other key considerations
Implementation phase
Use appropriate project management tools (e.g., Asana, Trello) to manage the collaboration
Monitoring and evaluating
Planning phase
Identify the key metrics
Track financial and non-financial measures
Track cost effectiveness (e.g., cost-per-conversion)
Pick a good way to measure your metrics
Piloting phase
Test metrics, capture and evaluation during the pilot phase
Conduct a process evaluation to identify weaknesses in the process
Implementation phase
Monitor performance at predetermined points
Other useful tools for scale up
The scaling scan - "used with a group of key stakeholders to get a joint understanding of what scaling means in their context, and to identify bottlenecks and strengths "
A Premortem - "a managerial strategy in which a project team imagines that a project or organisation has failed, and then works backward to determine what potentially could lead to the failure of the project or organization". This can be used to identify assumptions to test.
Case studies, templates and papers on scale up
The folders below provide:
Editable templates for each tool in the toolkit
One-page guides on how to use each tool
Papers and frameworks identified in our evidence review of scale up
Case studies of successful scale up projects (coming soon)