Going to Scale with Community Development
Term:
III
Credits:
2
Date:
January, 2011 How do we move from small and isolated community successes to create enabling environments for rapid expansion of an ongoing process of human-energy-driven social change? Alternative approaches to large-scale expansion are compared and contrasted. The role of expanding quality of services in promoting the mobilization of people’s participation is also explored. The related challenge of relinquishing control serves as a focal point. In the context of Peru’s community-based and nationally-acclaimed CLAS health care systems, three dimensions of going to scale are analyzed:
- individual communities build from local successes to realize empowerment and local action,
- clusters of communities build problem-solving capacity through experimentation and training, and
- partnerships with government create a broader context through collaboration, adaptive learning, and extension.
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