ANZEA Conference 2022

Increasingly, projects seek multi-dimensional impacts.

For example, increased productivity and improved environmental outcomes. Speaking to the reach anticipated, the reach achieved, and the resulting impacts, scaling reflects this more holistic perspective and flows through many programmes of work regardless of their sectors or location within Aotearoa and globally. This has prompted us to take the time to explore what scaling means by reflecting on our experiences (both good and not so good) across a range of national and international programmes we have been involved in.

We asked ourselves what should or could scaling look like and what could this mean for how and why we evaluate. Do we have all the answers? The answer is emphatically ‘no’, but we are eager to grow the intellectual thought in this space by engaging this evaluative conversation.