How to meet SDG and climate goals: Eight lessons for scaling up development programs (Johannes F. Linn, Brookings)

To achieve the desired outcomes of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the global targets fromthe Paris COP21 Climate Summit by 2030, governments will have to find ways to meet the top-down objectives with bottom-up approaches. A systematic focus on scaling up successful development interventions could serve to bridge this gap, or what’s been called the “missing middle.” However, the question remains how to actually address the challenge of scaling up.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/05/10-scaling-up-development-programs-linn