Communities supported by civil society may best serve these initiatives by providing local insight.
The research community may best serve these efforts by considering innovative ideas that foster institutional arrangements that bring together unusual alliances, by accompanying efforts with solid impact studies, and through insights from comparative assessments of cases of successful efforts that were scaled up.
Aiming for the end of extreme poverty requires an end of simple solutions. Recognizing marginality as a complex phenomenon helps to identify optimal sets of context specific, multi-facetted solutions. Results orientation means asking “did marginality get reduced?”, because sustainable poverty reduction depends on that.