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• First, cost analysis for scaling is more than a budgeting exercise. It is important to assess what implementation would cost at scale within existing government systems.
• It takes a combination of technical expertise, understanding of local contexts, political strategy, collaborative partnership, flexible adaptation, and shared vision to scale and sustain the impact of education initiatives
• TaRL is implemented in 6 regions in Botswana with sensitization trainings done in 2 additional regions. Over 20% of primary schools are implementing TaRL. Both literacy and numeracy content are being implemented. Students have shown clear learning gains with 72% of students gaining numeracy skills after 30 hours of TaR
• Aligning with the local policy environment Across cases, implementers attempted to demonstrate how their initiative responde
• o local needs and contributed to key policy priorities. Prior research makes clear that these are important strategies for building momentum and buy-in at different levels of the education system. 5

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