Bangladesh has successfully taken to scale a number of interventions that have brought innovative changes in the social sector. However, there is a lack of documentation on lessons learned from previous experiences of adopting and scaling-up interventions. To address this gap, the James P Grant School of Public Health and UNICEF, under the patronage of Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Government of Bangladesh, have partnered to form the Centre of Science of Implementation and Scale-Up.
The new Centre was officially launched on 13 February and will endeavour to document best practices, conduct evidence-based advocacy and institutionalise capacity-building on the science of scaling up interventions, bridging the worlds of academia and policy-making for increased evidence-based decision-making on scaling up proven interventions.