Success Stories from Scaling-up Initiatives with State Governments and Corporate in India, China and Thailand

Science of development or research for development (R4D) is in the central stage as donors started looking for visible, and measurable impacts rather than funding the initiatives of research for research sake. International development investors like Asian Development Bank (ADB), The World Bank (WB), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), and others were looking for the strategies and valuable inputs for scaling-up good technologies to achieve millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Innovative – Integrated – Inclusive – Impact oriented - Scalable – Sustainable – Simple – Socially acceptable – Efficient – Environment friendly – Equitable and ensuring Economic gain – Consortium – Convergence – Collective action – Capacity building (4ISECs) approach emerged through interdisciplinary watershed development research. This model was scaled-up in several states of India as well as other foundations-researchers also developed good success stories which can help in scaling-up and refinement of the approach. Using case studies as a CB tool for scaling-up by adopting the principle of “Seeing is Believing” is proposed by documenting several success stories from different states of India and one each from Thailand, Vietnam and China. In addition, two novel initiatives viz. consortium approach and integrated Watershed model success stories are also presented.