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Scaling Up Impact, Knowledge and Learning. Over the last 10 years, we have significantly scaled up our approach to biodiversity conservation in order to achieve impact beyond the local level; we now have a local to global approach. USAID support has enabled WWF and others to develop and test broad-scale approaches, as well as to share best practices to expand conservation to broader landscapes and ecosystems over longer time frames. Mechanisms we use to promote scaling up impact include: testing elements of successful approaches and then rolling them out to larger scales; using social and behavioral change methodologies (in our conceptual models, results chains and strategy development); promoting transformative change in global markets and influential institutions; supporting policy development and change at local, national, regional and global levels; and engaging strategic partners and key political and other actors to scale up their positive impacts. WWF’s local-to-global approach ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that best meet the needs of a wide spectrum of stakeholders and partners for effective biodiversity outcomes. We use the local-to-global approach selectively, working at the most appropriate scales, with the most appropriate activities at each level, to maximize our impacts and gain efficiencies in the use of conservation funds. In doing this we identify key leverage points to reduce threats and take advantage of opportunities: for example, in the Congo we try to mitigate and control local xxxx meat hunting by supporting a single national policy or working with a small group of key timber lease holders to change their access practices, rather than supporting a widespread, expensive and less efficient field-based anti-poaching effort. In short, we work at the most appropriate scale for the different ecosystem processes and socio-economic conditions in each priority place. WWF understands that it cannot scale up on its own – the challenges we face are too immense and we alone do not have the wide-ranging sets of skills needed. We enter into strategic partnerships at several levels to magnify positive impacts, and we also encourage governments, other NGOs, communities, private sector operators and donors to take their own actions to adopt and support sound practices. Scaling up does not mean that we neglect the local level; quite the opposite, we continue to consider this a key scale for us and our partners to work at, because it is where threats play out and where biodiversit...
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