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Sustainability Plan Checklist Guide

This sustainability checklist provides guidance on finalizing a sustainability plan. It includes components like ensuring sufficient resources, building capacity, managing risks and responses, engaging stakeholders, establishing processes and networks, and motivating continued involvement. Key aspects are evaluating resource needs to continue work, ensuring partners have the knowledge and skills through participation, exploring risks and response strategies, introducing all relevant parties, and fostering buy-in and desire to carry on the project outcomes.

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Sustainability Plan Checklist Guide

This sustainability checklist provides guidance on finalizing a sustainability plan. It includes components like ensuring sufficient resources, building capacity, managing risks and responses, engaging stakeholders, establishing processes and networks, and motivating continued involvement. Key aspects are evaluating resource needs to continue work, ensuring partners have the knowledge and skills through participation, exploring risks and response strategies, introducing all relevant parties, and fostering buy-in and desire to carry on the project outcomes.

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Sustainability Checklist

This checklist provides some guidance on the details required to finalize the sustainability plan.

Checklist Description
Resources This component includes both the human and non-human resources required to
continue the product or services once the project is complete. What kind of
people power will be required to continue the intervention results? Are there any
specific machinery or equipment needs? Does the continuation of the product or
service require any specific technological equipment?
Capacity Capacity is another important component that will determine the sustainability of
a project. If you are handing the project over, you must ensure that the
organization, governmental institution, or community has the knowledge and
skills to be able to sustain the product or service. Building the capacity
throughout the project by utilizing a participatory approach-from start to finish-
will inherently provide a more sustainable intervention because these
stakeholders will have been involved in the project management processes with
your team. They likely will have learned along the way, how to best approach
things like managing stakeholders, risk, and technical elements as well.
Risk and There is always risk in handing over a project to a local partner, community, or
Response local government. The more prepared they are to deal with any potential issues
and risks, the more likely they will sustain the project. However, risk management
and response can be overwhelming, even more so when there isn’t a support
system in place to assist with risks, issues, and responses. Before handing a
project over, it would be highly beneficial to explore the potential risks with the
entity you are handing the project over to. Additionally, guiding them through
response strategies that include specific actions that should take place may help
them from getting stuck or overwhelmed by risks that become issues. Walking
through the risk analysis and response process will also build their capacity in
understanding how to deal with risk and issues, building resilience and providing
a more solid foundation for the continuation of the project.
Stakeholders Rarely is there only 1 stakeholder involved in the handover of a project. Multiple
stakeholders are often required to sustain the results of an intervention and
these stakeholders need to be introduced and engaged before the handover
takes place.
Processes and Often times, sustainability requires the coordination and collaboration of a
Networks multitude of stakeholders and clear processes and networks for carrying on the
work once the project has closed. Are appropriate systems in place to ensure that
the product or service can be sustained? Do we need to facilitate networks to
promote the sustainability of the product or service?
Motivation This particular component is a lot more difficult than the others because it
requires buy-in from the beneficiaries, community, and stakeholders AND the
desire to continue the project outputs and outcomes after the project team
leaves. The key to motivating the community or organization to continue the
work is regular involvement during the project and building awareness around
the importance and value of continuing the product or service.

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