Even though the term is a new one, adaptive blueprinting (as Global Gain and others define the process) has already been successfully carried out by a number of NGOs in the developing world. The most well-known and well-documented example would probably be the Childline India Foundation, which used an adaptive blueprinting strategy very successfully from 1996-1999 to scale-out Childline, an emergency hotline for street children, to all of India's largest cities. So in this sense, proof of concept is not needed to demonstrate that the strategy itself works -- it does! However, proof of concept is needed in another sense:

• To show that knowledge gained from Childline and other case studies can be compiled in an easily accessible manner to enable NGOs everywhere to adopt adaptive blueprinting strategies of their own in a highly efficient and effective manner
• To systematize the entire process in much the same way the franchise models have been in the private sector, so that NGOs, foundations, and other organizations (including government agencies) need not reinvent the wheel in order to scale-out their best blueprints.

By late 2007, Global Gain hopes to have demonstrated proof of concept in this sense, working with the Indian NGO, Save the Childhood Foundation, to replicate their blueprint for eliminating child labor in India's villages (read more ).