The Tools

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This Guide is designed to allow you to move through it at your own pace, making your own decisions about which tools will be most helpful to you. We encourage you to consider the goals of each tool, prioritize, use, and reuse those you find helpful.
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Tool #1Alignment of Local and Global Stakeholder Priorities

An exercise to clarify the extent to which an intervention/activity that is a candidate for adaptation and scale is (or is not) aligned with different stakeholders’ priorities.

Tool #2Scalability Assessment Learning

An assessment to determine the scalability of different interventions/ activities based on factors such as credibility, support, ease of adoption, and funding sustainability.

Tool #3Evidence Profile of Potential Intervention/Activity

A way to review key elements of an intervention/activity and assess the evidence that the intervention/activity under consideration is effective from the perspective of the local Joining Forces team.

Tool #4Core and Peripheral Elements of a Violence Against Children Intervention/Activity

A way to review key elements of an intervention/activity and assess the evidence that the intervention/activity under consideration is effective from the perspective of the local Joining Forces team.

Tool #5Environmental Assessment: Different areas and variables

A group exercise taking stock of the environment to identify opportunities and threats to scale up of a specific intervention or activity.

Tool #6Benchmarking and Tracking Vertical Scale Up

A planning tool to prioritize systems-level results and track progress related to vertical scale up (institutionalization).

Tool #7Benchmarking and Tracking Horizontal Scale Up

A planning tool to identify what systems-level results to seek, steps to take, and progress-tracking related to horizontal scale up (reaching more people).

Tool #8Establishing a Division of Labor among Joining Forces Partners

This tool proposes a process by which different Joining Forces partners working together to adapt and scale an intervention/activity can assign roles and tasks among themselves.

Tool #9Documenting Learning

A simple and flexible template that allows local Joining Forces team members to keep track of different kinds of “learning questions” whether they are practical or theoretical. The template asks you to record what was learned about each questions and reflect on the implications of that learning.

Tool #10Compendium

For Joining Forces, children’s views are critical in every phase of adaptation and scale. For each tool, the Guide includes recommendations on the ways to seek children’s engagement. The compendium “Tools and Techniques for Children’s Engagement” lists out useful resources to consult when using the tools for children’s engagement.