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We have to discover how we move from our feel-good successes, how to scale up these
initiatives to a depth and a breadth where we can really have an impact on poverty,
where we can achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
James D. Wolfensohn
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tially specialized in agricultural development may
add nutrition, health or literacy activities. The
Kudumbashee-Women Empowerment project in
Kerala is a case of a functional scaling up. It devel-
oped from an initial focus on improving nutrition for
women and children into a multisectoral anti-pov-
erty program (see Annex Box A10).
Political scaling up refers to expansion through ef-
forts to influence the political process and work
with other stake-holder groups, with state agencies,
parliamentarians and political parties, etc. Through
political scaling up, individual organizations can
achieve greater inuence, protect their efforts from
countervailing political interests and affect politi-
cal and institutional change that sustains scaled up
interventions. The CACID environmental preserva-
tion initiative in Cameroon provides an excellent
example for the political scaling up process needed
to involve multiple stakeholders in a successful pro-