ABSTRACT
The Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations established the RAHAT team: a survivor support programme that provides socio-legal assistance to victim-survivors of sexual violence and their families. In December 2012, a horrific gang rape took place on a bus in Delhi, India. This incident of extreme violence became a symbol for the country’s women’s movement, and raised the important but taboo issue of sexual violence against women. Between 2012 and 2015, the RAHAT team followed approximately 500 cases of sexual violence. The RAHAT team pursued both horizontal and vertical scaling strategies based on the recommendations of an external evaluation. When horizontally scaling an innovation, such as expanding access to justice for marginalised women and children, adjustments to different gender contexts may be necessary. Dynamic Evaluations allow for a more complex understanding of the impact of scaling and the development of a strategy for how scaling should occur.
