Final Report: Chemical water quality and impacts on the treatment of severely malnourished infants and children

Authored by Lesley Bourns, Dan McClure and Alice Obrecht on behalf of the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI)

First published in February 2019, this paper responds to a persistent humanitarian challenge: why do good ideas, demonstrated through pilots, fail to reach a scale at which they can maximise value for people affected by crises?

The Untangling the Many Paths to Scale paper offers a new scale framework designed with humanitarian innovation in mind, shaped by four key factors:

• solution value,
• difficulty,
• contextual variation, and
• operational sustainability.

Each combination of factors may have its own methodology and scaling journey, offering innovators a broader, more realistic range of options for determining how to take innovations to scale. Recognizing the diversity of pathways to scale allows for a more realistic consideration of resources, skills, and steps involved in scaling.

You can find out more information about this resource on the GAHI website and through watching the video below.

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