Tool #5
Environmental 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.
When we know our environment, we can leverage opportunities, and minimize threats. This tool helps you see where adaptations might be needed in the intervention or activity you have selected for scale. This will allow you to strengthen your scale-up strategy by anticipating key opportunities and threats to scale-up success.
How to use this tool
- Assign to small groups 1-3 areas or domains suggested by the tool that impact EVAC scale-up that they are familiar with.
- For each area or domain, the group should identify two key factors affecting scale up.
- For each area or domain, decide if it has a positive, negative or mixed effect on scale up and the potential strength of its impact.
- Looking across all identified areas or domains, identify 3 priority opportunities which potentially support scale up and 3 potentially significant threats to scale up. Discuss these as a group.
- Identify key actions that can take advantage to take advantage of opportunities and minimize threats
Children’s Engagement
When using this tool Joining Forces seeks children’s engagement in two distinct ways: 1) integrating information about children’s views and perspectives as it relates to the tool’s topic and 2) as a source of data for each tool. Locating opportunities for child participation and child safeguarding (as separate and complementary) is a shared responsibility of all Joining Forces partners. In this tool, children can discuss threats and opportunities to their involvement in scaling up this intervention/activity, for example the feasibility of implementing it in schools. They can also reflect on social norms that would support or constrain expansion of the intervention/activity.