after piloting the programme for about half a year a first upscaling was undertaken in june by extending it to two schools per district and then subsequently to five schools per district it has been suggested the gnsp and its predecessor might have been directly influenced by the transnational poverty agenda of the s however grebe draws attention to the largely domestic roots of these two policy frameworks he traces their adoption to the identification of extreme poverty as a major impediment to the countrys ambition of attaining middleincome status particularly during the implementation period of the countrys first poverty reduction strategy paper prsp growth and poverty reduction strategy gprs i