Name of Framework | Description of Framework | Year of Publication |
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A Learning Process Approach [21] | A model that describes a learning process to building program strategies and organizational competence. It suggests that a new program should progress through three developmental stages in which the focal concern is successively on learning to be effective, learning to be efficient, and learning to expand. | 1980 |
Alternative Strategies for Scaling Up NGOs [22] | A model that describes four dimensions of scaling up of programs and organizations: (i) quantitative, (ii) functional, (iii) political and (iv) organizational development. | 1995 |
Diffusion of Innovations [23] | Diffusion of innovations theory seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. The four main elements involve: (i) the innovation, (ii) communication channels, (iii) time and (iv) a social system | 1995 |
SEED-Scale [24] | A model involving three principles for scaling up: (i) forming a three way partnership of community members, officials and experts, (ii) basing action on locally specific data, (iii) using a community work plan to change collective behavior | 2002 |
Scaling Up Management (SUM) Framework [25] | A framework for those planning, implementing and funding pilot projects with the intention of scaling up. The three steps include: (i) developing a scaling up plan, (ii) establishing the pre-conditions for scaling up and (iii) implementing the scaling up process based on the identification of factors that can promote extension and sustainability | 2003 |
Expandnet Framework [20] | A framework that presents the scaling up process within a systems context involving the following components: (i) determining the innovation, (ii) identifying the user organization, (iii) defining and analyzing the environment, (iv) identifying the resource team. It also involves identifies the need for considering the role of: (i) policy/legal/political scaling up, (ii) physical expansion of services and programs, (iii) diversification, and (iv) spontaneous scaling up | 2008 |