<aside> 🌿 The concepts below are a distillation of insights from respected literature on scale and replication we’ve translated to make more sense for conservation. If you have any suggestions, please email [email protected]!

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Replication Scaling Stages

The replication scale journey can be broken down into three stages:

Emerging (R&D):

Your team has identified elements of a “wicked problem” that you all are uniquely equipped to address and you have a promising idea! **It’s time to run a pilot.

Consider the following as you design for scale:

• Start small to minimize risk.
• Prioritize perspectives of interested, involved, and impacted parties from the beginning.
• Identify, who might be a Doer- or Payer-at-Scale? Then bring in your trusted potential partners early and often to co-create and define opportunities and problems.
• Consider the Four Enoughs: is the idea good enough, big enough, simple enough, and cost-effective enough for successful replication?
• Create a draft Theory of Change that you can easily adjust as you increase learnings. What critical assumptions are underpinning your work and how might you build evidence around them?
• Reflect on learnings at regular, frequent intervals and adapt accordingly.

Validating (Internal Replication):