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Lessons Learned in Mainstreaming and Scale-Up of L&M Capacity Building Programs

Mainstreaming and Scale-Up of Leadership and Management Capacity

There are many ways to successfully mainstream and scale-up leadership and management capacity.  By examining how LMS approaches, strategies, and results have been institutionalized into organizations and agencies in 11 countries, LMS has learned that:

  • The most important factor is a clear commitment from the local participants to own and sustain the mainstreaming and scale-up processes.
  • People are more important than systems.  Improvements in health systems are attained when the people working within them have the power to implement change as well as the tools to do so.

Lessons Learned in Mainstreaming and Scale-Up of Leadership and Management Capacity- PDF full text, PDF 4-page summary

This report is one of four strategic evaluations carried out by the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Communications Team of the LMS program; together, they offer a comprehensive, cross-program examination of LMS field programs between 2005 and 2010.
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  • In Nepal, LMS worked with the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) in 2006 to introduce the Results-Oriented Leadership Development Program (ROLDP).  As of 2009, 700 participants have been trained by ADRA/Nepal in the ROLDP.

  • The Capacity Building (CB) Project of LMS/Nigeria provides institutional capacity building to 48 local NGOs and faith-based organizations.  As of December 2009, six NGOs providing HIV/AIDS services were able to receive USG funds, as a result of their improved management and operational systems, thus contributing to their ability to scale up HIV/AIDS services.