Tool #8
Establishing 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.
As noted earlier in this quick-start guide, vertical scale and horizontal scale must work together to create sustainable scale (see Figure 2). Just as in the vertical scale-up tool that helps us think through institutionalization, it is important to agree upon the desired results in terms of horizontal scale: that is how many sites is it reasonable to add? How many people will you reach? In what time frame? Where will new sites be? These are horizontal scale-up considerations. Setting achievable scale-up results for reaching more people and tracking your progress will help your action plan succeed. Working through this tool and the previous tool (on vertical scale-up) will be useful in refining your results framework and in guiding monitoring and evaluation.
How to use this tool
- Collectively, local Joining Forces team members write a brief narrative outlining the scope and scaling of the interventions/activities of the project.
- Each partner organization then considers which elements of the project they feel best suited to undertake.
- Coming together again as a the entire team, the different Joining Forces organizations share the roles they see for themselves, the adaptation and scaling challenges they anticipate within those roles, and seek to eliminate overlaps and redundancies. Gaps in authority will also be flagged and addressed.
- Returning to different partner groups, members of each organization will take the output of Step Three and focus on how they will staff the tasks they are assigned.
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 responsibilities of all Joining Forces partners. Although children and their families will not be able to identify different organizations adaptation and scaling responsibilities, it will be useful for them to hear the narrative of the project developed as the output of Step 1. Children and their families can be asked to consider if there are activities or objectives that they feel are missing.