Scaling DeSIRA – Strategies and policy

27 March 2024. Webinar – Scaling DeSIRA – Strategies and policy 

27 March 2024. Webinaire – Passer DeSIRA à l’échelle

The 2 webinars were the second of the series on how the innovations processes promoted by DeSIRA projects and their organizations, can or should be brough to scale. It targets projects that are coming to an end as well as those that need to start building their exit strategy as part of their theory of change.

• They reviewed the imbrication of DeSIRA projects (especially multi-country projects) into national, and international regional dynamics. The nature of relationships between DeSIRA projects, national and regional innovation strategies, the interaction with organizations in support of Research and Innovation or extension services and whether these can provide conditions for innovation trajectories to be pursued, building on action and results achieved by DeSIRA projects.
• The webinar identified regional innovation agendas or policies that can support the scaling and sustainability or DeSIRA Innovations and how DeSIRA projects should seek to interface with these agendas.

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13 December 2023. Scaling DeSIRA – Innovation processes and scalability

The aim of the webinar was to review what processes supported by DeSIRA projects need to be continued – in particular those innovations targeting behavioral changes that require time and cannot be directly scaled out or up but rather need to be disseminated –, and what other processes can move beyond pilots or proofs of concepts through a blend of specific funding (including investments), access to markets, and a conducive environment. The webinar helped identify scalable processes and those to be continued as well as who and how should be reached out to ensure this continuation.