Stage 4

Stage 4: Mitigating consequences and embracing opportunities

In the previous stage, your project team learned more about intersectionality, and has identified different focus groups based on that.

In this stage, you and the innovation team will revisit your Scaling Strategy, keeping in mind the most important focus groups and practicing strategies to mitigate unintended consequences.

The focus groups identified in Stage 3 (and the underlying matrix) will serve as a starting point to identify mitigation strategies and complementary innovations to develop a more gender responsible scaling plan.

Stage 4 Goals

Mitigating Activities

  • Duration of activity: 20 minutes
  • Materials needed: stable internet connection and projector

Instructions for the facilitator

  • Go through the “Complementary Innovations and Mitigating Activities” slides before you meet with your team. Make sure you understand the concepts and terms that are used.
  • At the end of the presentation, take some time to answer questions and facilitate a discussion.

Revisiting the Scaling Strategy

  • Duration of activity: 60-90 minutes 
  • Materials needed: stable internet connection and projector 

Instructions for the facilitator

  • Go through the Scaling Strategy on the Miro board you filled in in Stage 1. Have the team look at the responses they filled in earlier.
  • Then go to the second part of the Miro (stage 4), and start with the first column on the left: 'the innovation’s focus group user'. List the top 3 focus groups. 
  • Continue by working your way through the columns, revisiting the resources, training, complementary innovations needed, communication and implications. Do this for each focus group your team identified earlier. 
  • Finally, rethink which partners your team needs to work with to achieve the goals for their inclusive scaling.

Here is a visual of the MIRO Board for Stage 4:

Stage 4 Miro

Reflection Questions

Instructions for the facilitator

  • Close Stage 4 with a few reflection questions about the revised Scaling Strategy. 
  • Discuss the question with the team, and make sure everyone agrees with the answers you type below. Encourage everyone to share their opinion.
  1. Which steps will you take in the near future to operationalize this new plan?
  2. If you don't have the resources to do the mitigating activities or complementary innovations, what are the 'small wins' you could do to scale in a gender responsible way?
  3. Do you believe that the innovation can be scaled in a gender responsible and socially inclusive way?

Congratulations!

You have completed Stage 4 of GenderUp. In the next stage, you will help the innovation team envision how they can integrate these new learnings and scaling strategy into their existing project management.