IGEHRC's scale up strategy is centred on building more facilities that can cater to the demand for quality eye care. The strategy envisages the setting up of rural hospitals in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana - a rural hospital is already operating in Sohna and a super-tertiary hospital has recently started operating in Gurugram to cater to the rural and deprived populations of Haryana.
A hallmark of both RGCT's programmes is their ability to ramp up scale at speed and sustain the impacts of their social development interventions.
Scalability
- RGMVP's scale up strategy is rooted in the Community Resource Development Centres (CRDCs) which develop social capital of exemplary community leaders who understand the power of building social institutions. As a result, 10,000 new household are added to the RGMVP fold every year
- RGMVP's non-hierarchical system of community resource development focusses on nurturing exemplary women on different development themes and any new programme is driven and scaled up through them
- IGEHRC's scale up strategy is centred on building more facilities that can cater to the demand for quality eye care. The strategy envisages the setting up of rural hospitals in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana - a rural hospital is already operating in Sohna and a super-tertiary hospital has recently started operating in Gurugram to cater to the rural and deprived populations of Haryana
Sustainability
- At RGMVP, the constant demand for finance, which could hinder long-term ability of social institutions to sustain themselves, is met through linkages with banks
- RGMVP's innovative model relies on the project's management by community leaders on a volunteering basis whose motivation is a sense of social identity and recognition. This ensures that project impact can be sustained through minimal investment and a little handholding support - the social institutions, in fact, are self-sustaining
- At IGEHRC, sustainability is ensured through its unique model of cross-subsidisation (80:20) - those who can afford eye care are charged the full amount for services while those who can't receive services at subsidised rates
- An efficient and productive model that ensures higher number of surgeries in the shortest possible time contributes significantly to IGEHRC's sustainability.
- Another factor that contributes to IGEHRC's sustainability is the mobilisation of sponsorships from individuals, philanthropists and social service organisations to support the cost of surgeries for patients from rural outreach camps
