Scalability in Systemic Design Approach for Rural Development

Abstract

Rural Development is a fundamental point in the action plans by the United Nations: The Sustainable Development Goal 2 of the Post-2015 Development Agenda attests the importance of increasing investment and international cooperation to end hunger and achieve food security (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf ). The relevance of this topic makes Scalability and Replicability essential to the successful of the projects that deal with Rural Development. This research is facing the Rural Development through the Systemic Design approach, and its outcomes are models that enable the possibility to replicate projects and processes (Holocombe in Lessons from practice: Assessing scalability. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012). The concept of Scalability helps to define the boundaries and the limits of the project in order to grow up the benefits for the territory as much as possible, but without exploiting it. The Replicability, defined as the property of an activity, process or test result that allows it to be duplicated at another location or time, it helps to consider the key elements of a project that can have the same role in other contexts. This paper wants to investigate how should Replicability and Scalability become with the application of Systemic Design Approach in a specific context.