Developing a long-term strategy
Sustainability is a concept that refers to the ability of something to last over time, to remain constant and durable over a long period. It is generally advantageous to think about the sustainability strategy throughout the change project..
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A tool developed by the Tamarack Institute that helps collaborative initiatives consider ten factors and assess the level of commitment of partners to integrating sustainability into their collective efforts.
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An analysis tool developed by the RQIS to help people determine what stage of development (emergence, experimentation, sustainability and scaling up, institutionalization) a project is at in order to identify the strategies to be implemented to move on to the next stage, if necessary.
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In this article, Tom Wolff, an American consultant working with communities and non-profit organizations, presents a framework for a common understanding of sustainability and a process for planning for sustainability, including four practical tools.
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A summary sheet, developed by Communagir, which provides a comprehensive definition of sustainability as well as several tools and references for exploring this topic further.
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This tool, developed by Communagir, provides a series of questions to help us conduct a collective retrospective on the project by identifying the effects to be sustained, the conditions for success, and the challenges associated with it.
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A visual tool, presented by Dynamo, that allows for a comprehensive analysis of the project by identifying which elements of the project should be retained, amplified, reduced, created, or discontinued in order to sustain the changes targeted by the project.