Does the same apply to how one reproduces successful youth projects? Major national voluntary organisations seek to establish new units as if they were supermarket branches. Government endeavours to roll out pilot programmes by promoting the take-up of its various initiatives - Positive Activities for Young People; Millennium Volunteers; the Neighbourhood Support Fund and many more. Actually, replication is not that easy. On the whole, people are too busy to go looking for new mousetraps. They may not hear of them; they don't think they will work in their context; they can't afford them once the pump-priming runs out.
A recent little book, Replicating Successful Voluntary Sector Projects by Diana Leat (published by the Association of Charitable Foundations, also available on loan from The NYA Library), contains useful insights into the process of replication and its various stages including demonstration, dissemination and evaluation.
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