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4.3 IDRC Scaling Playbook: Mapping the Scaling System

30 mins

In the previous activity, you thought of a TPD programme in your context that has potential for scaling, and you identified potential stakeholders. 

In Course 3 you read from the IDRC Scaling Playbook. On page 13 of the Playbook there is a worksheet called ‘Mapping the Scaling System’, which we reproduce here. This worksheet is useful to identify the range of stakeholders for scaling a TPD programme:

  • Initiators – people, places and resources that would make it possible to begin a change in scale
  • Enablers – people, places and resources that can facilitate scaling
  • Competitors – people, places and resources that could prevent scaling, or offer a better alternative to scaling or a second-best option
  • The Impacted – people who will experience positive or negative results from scaling

You can see an example of how these quadrants were used in practice, in a Global South country, to consider scaling a TPD programme. The programme here was to develop professional communities for school leaders with a focus on inclusion.


For the TPD programme you are considering for scale in your context, identify the

  • Initiators
  • Enablers
  • Competitors
  • Impacted 

You can work on your own, with a colleague, or in a small group.

How difficult or easy was it to identify stakeholders and resources in each of the four quadrants?

Could you identify how teachers would be involved?

Record your ideas in your Personal Blog.