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Implement, Maintain,Scale Up, &Sustain Programs & Approaches - Overview
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The implementation, maintenance, scale up, sustainability (IMSS) of multi-component approaches, multi-intervention programs and individual interventions requires use of traditional, effective, operational planning steps such as involving stakeholders, selecting effective programs and using evidence-based and experience-tested implementation models and frameworks. Planners should also identify local barriers/drivers of change such as inter-organizational relationships, recent events and incidents. Planning should include considerations of scaling up, start-up and ongoing costs, succession of key personnel and sustainability from the start. A thorough understanding of the local situation, magnitude, complexity and the “fit” or congruence a between the planned interventions or approach with the local situation, the use of evidence-based and experience-tested planning tools/frameworks and clarity about the intended outputs from different distribution, dissemination or diffusion (institutionalization) strategies are also required. The use of IMSS frameworks and the focus on these processes is relatively new in school health & development but is now often part of UN agency guidance documents. Several centres of excellence, reviews and summaries of better IMSS practices are emerging. As a key part of the new paradigm of systems-focused action, IMSS planning offers answers to why programs are effective and how they can be sustained.
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