Table 1:

SCIONs criteria: characteristics, coordination mechanisms, and performance evaluation.

Characteristics of SCIONs
Systemic	Pursuing a common socially valued goal
Organizations	A network of organizations Non-governmental, but also potentially private or government
Coordination	An autonomous coordinating organization Decentralized decision-making, supportive supervision, information sharing, Network Coordinating Organization (NCO)
Technical staff	Knowledgeable Technical assistance, diffusing innovations
SCIONs coordination mechanisms**
Allocating	Various resources, funds, equipment, appropriate skills, and technologies
Controlling	Activities of the organizations in the network; Limiting the number of members and requiring reports from them: Forcing organizations to leave the network due to poor performance: Supportive supervision of member organizations’ activities
Stimulating Cooperation	Achieve common goals, sharing of information between members about tactics, exchanging funds between members, starting sub-networks in different regions or around specialized problems to do joint planning interventions
Performance evaluation criteria
Learning	Increase organizational capacity Improved knowledge of environment, system
Innovation	New strategies and tactics Faster diffusion of new technology
Adaptation	Problem solving Coping with change

^**Adapted from Table 1.3 coordination mechanisms. SCIONs: Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks.