INTERAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE
Posted on 09/01/2025
IICA was involved working with FAO, CTA and IFAD on developing, improving and testing a methodology now known as capitalization. Useful for purposes like evaluation, marketing, communication...is also different from systematization. We have focus on "experiences" and yes trying to scaling up those. Three elements are vital and without them, the task of scaling becomes more challenging:
Real participation: the experience "owners" as well as those interested in scalling must be present.
The experience is more concrete. A project becomes to big, where differences of time and context will play against us.
Institutions: The adoption process requires in many cases institutions willing to continue the race other leaves.
Judging success is a matter of those who have adopt, adapt and increase the use of "a solution".
There are plenty of materials develop under the alliance with IFAD, FAO and CTA. IICA has put a document in spanish and english for our cooperation purposes-also available publicly: https://repositorio.iica.int/handle/11324/21455
RE: Evaluating Scaling Efforts: Measuring What Matters
Costa Rica
CHRISTIAN FEDERICO SANCHO
PLANNING, MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER
INTERAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE
Posted on 09/01/2025
IICA was involved working with FAO, CTA and IFAD on developing, improving and testing a methodology now known as capitalization. Useful for purposes like evaluation, marketing, communication...is also different from systematization. We have focus on "experiences" and yes trying to scaling up those. Three elements are vital and without them, the task of scaling becomes more challenging:
Judging success is a matter of those who have adopt, adapt and increase the use of "a solution".
There are plenty of materials develop under the alliance with IFAD, FAO and CTA. IICA has put a document in spanish and english for our cooperation purposes-also available publicly: https://repositorio.iica.int/handle/11324/21455