Spaces and Mechanisms for Planning and Adaptation
a strategy for self-sustainability
More self-sustainability means having more autonomy and less reliance on external funding, expertise or decisions. It means having a larger capacity to choose and negotiate with other initiatives what’s best for your project and what’s not. It means an increasingly equitable participation, which will lead to development models that are more comprehensive and relevant for all, that is, more sustainable. Know more
One strategy used by several development initiatives to become more self-sustainable is to create spaces and mechanisms specifically dedicated to planning, designing and experimenting with solutions aimed at increasing their self-sustainability, as well as to adapting to the different circumstances that may affect it.
Some, for instance, create pilot projects to test new strategies on a small scale, assess how self-sustainable their project is or could be, and then adapt the model to larger contexts. Others organize regular or intermittent meetings to help identify opportunities and obstacles as the project progresses and plan solutions to problems that may arise. Still others form working teams especially dedicated to building the self-sustainability of their projects, often relying on participatory diagnoses and dynamics for evaluation or feedback from the initiative’s various stakeholders.
Actually, there are many different ways to make a project more self-sustainable by adopting spaces and mechanisms for its planning and adaptation. Take a look at how these initiatives have done it!
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