ABSTRACT
In the years leading up to 2015, global development organisations were primarily occupied with meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The pathway to scale pursued by Southern Voice extended the influence of its members. While the formation of Southern Voice and its own scaling over time were intrinsic to this process, the ultimate goal of the network was to scale Southern policy influence and affect development work globally. The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) is a partnership that supports independent policy research organisations in the Global South. Southern Voice emerged as a collective from among the institutions supported by TTI. Its formation began at TTI’s 2012 global learning event in Cape Town, which marked an important starting point for more active collaboration between the think tanks supported through TTI. One additional effect is that Southern Voice’s global work often feeds back into national dialogues, reinforcing both the scaling up and the scaling out of policy insights.
