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  • What is self-sustainability and why is it so important?
  • How to increase the self-sustainability of your development initiative?
    • 1. Planning self-sustainability
      • Trans-generational approach
        • Positioning (role)
          • Demonstrative experiences creator
          • Network orchestrator
          • Local capacity builder
            • Exit Plan
            • Removing corrosive disadvantages
            • Strengthening the local economy
            • Choosing the right leaders
            • Fostering local leaders and networks of disseminators
            • Incubator
        • Institutional profile
        • Scalability
      • Spaces and mechanisms for planning, flexibility and adaptation
        • Mapping and planning inherent sources of sustainability, capabilities and corrosive disadvantages
        • Adaptation, analysis and innovation units
        • Preventive Measures
        • Feedback mechanisms
          • Rating systems and external evaluations
        • Pilot Projects
    • 2. Assuring plural relevance
      • Prioritizing relevant education and technical training
        • Intercultural Education Model
    • 3. Creating and promoting integrative responses
      • Systemic interventions
      • Integrated service delivery
      • “Bridge” agents
    • 4. Capitalizing and enhancing trust and solidarity
      • Incentives for cooperation
        • Equity measures: prioritizing the disadvantaged
        • Transparency
          • Advocacy capacity
            • Demonstrated scaled effect
            • Emotional connection
            • Systematization
            • Visibility
            • Differentiation
            • Showing people concrete means to contribute and impact
            • Certainty
            • Results-based trust
        • Intra and trans-sectoral partnerships
        • Alternative Barter systems
      • Voluntary contributions
    • 5. Rethinking funding strategies
      • Diversifying the sources of financial and political support
        • Creating and capitalizing on local resources
          • Entrepreneurship
          • Human capital
          • Know-how
          • Parity/Matching funds
      • Funds management and allocation
        • Advancing work, while the required funds are secured
        • Institutional Integration
        • Banking trust funds
        • Capital Fund
    • 6. Motivating and capitalizing upon local ownership
      • Keeping Local Stewardship
      • Structures and techniques for local participation, organization and negotiation
        • Decentralizing
        • Participatory Mapping
        • Information and communication technology tools
        • Local stakeholder organizations
        • Rotatory management commissions
        • Favoring internal communication with concrete means
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self-sustainability

strategies for development initiatives

  • Home
  • What is self-sustainability and why is it so important?
  • How to increase the self-sustainability of your development initiative?
    • 1. Planning self-sustainability
      • Trans-generational approach
        • Positioning (role)
          • Demonstrative experiences creator
          • Network orchestrator
          • Local capacity builder
            • Exit Plan
            • Removing corrosive disadvantages
            • Strengthening the local economy
            • Choosing the right leaders
            • Fostering local leaders and networks of disseminators
            • Incubator
        • Institutional profile
        • Scalability
      • Spaces and mechanisms for planning, flexibility and adaptation
        • Mapping and planning inherent sources of sustainability, capabilities and corrosive disadvantages
        • Adaptation, analysis and innovation units
        • Preventive Measures
        • Feedback mechanisms
          • Rating systems and external evaluations
        • Pilot Projects
    • 2. Assuring plural relevance
      • Prioritizing relevant education and technical training
        • Intercultural Education Model
    • 3. Creating and promoting integrative responses
      • Systemic interventions
      • Integrated service delivery
      • “Bridge” agents
    • 4. Capitalizing and enhancing trust and solidarity
      • Incentives for cooperation
        • Equity measures: prioritizing the disadvantaged
        • Transparency
          • Advocacy capacity
            • Demonstrated scaled effect
            • Emotional connection
            • Systematization
            • Visibility
            • Differentiation
            • Showing people concrete means to contribute and impact
            • Certainty
            • Results-based trust
        • Intra and trans-sectoral partnerships
        • Alternative Barter systems
      • Voluntary contributions
    • 5. Rethinking funding strategies
      • Diversifying the sources of financial and political support
        • Creating and capitalizing on local resources
          • Entrepreneurship
          • Human capital
          • Know-how
          • Parity/Matching funds
      • Funds management and allocation
        • Advancing work, while the required funds are secured
        • Institutional Integration
        • Banking trust funds
        • Capital Fund
    • 6. Motivating and capitalizing upon local ownership
      • Keeping Local Stewardship
      • Structures and techniques for local participation, organization and negotiation
        • Decentralizing
        • Participatory Mapping
        • Information and communication technology tools
        • Local stakeholder organizations
        • Rotatory management commissions
        • Favoring internal communication with concrete means
  • About this site
    • About the study
    • Development initiatives investigated
    • Our sources of support
  • Contact us

Pilot Projects

Pilot projects can assess the feasibility of new ideas in a cost-effective, low risk way. Small-scale models of the initiative allow initiatives to experience the potential consequences and challenges of interventions and adapt them before making decisions regarding their scalability.

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Scalability

Preventive Measures

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Friends of Calakmul

Environmental protection and local development


Mexico City and Campeche, Mexico


Project Health and Happiness

Healthcare, education, territorial management, alternative energies solutions, etc

Santarem, Brazil


Songshan UNESCO Global Geopark 嵩山世界地质公园

Protects an area of immense geological and cultural value to promote scientific research, education and local economic development through tourism.

Hebei, China


Christmas Trees Forest
Forest conservation and rehabilitation, education for sustainability, culture, etc

Amecameca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico


Guadalajara Time Bank

Alternative Barter System for local development


Guadalajara, Mexico


Escuela Nueva Foundation

Quality rural education

Colombia


Center for Complexity Sciences – National Autonomous University of Mexico

National problem-based interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial research

Mexico City, Mexico


GreenPrice Supermarket 绿惜超级市场

Reduces food waste and the pollution it generates and combats against cost of living by selling groceries (at affordable prices), that are normally wasted due to misunderstandings on their Best Before Date label

Hong Kong, China

Thank you! · спасибо! (Spacibo!)

Redistributes used clothes and supports social projects

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Night Shelter • ночлежка (Nochlezhka)


Supports homeless people with food, shelter, orientation and humanitarian aid to enhance their opportunities.


Saint Petersburg, Russia

Migrant Shelter "Brothers in the Road"

Offers guidance on human rights and humanitarian aid (lodging, food, medical services, legal assistance, etc) to thousands of migrants who transit through Mexico.

Ixtepec, Mexico


Nested Market 巢状市场

Small-scale poverty mitigation through direct linkage between rural producers and urban consumers.

Hebei and Beijing, China


Ectagono

Comprehensive wellbeing, ecological rehabilitation, art and culture.


Mexico City, Mexico


La Flor Agroecological Farm

Promotes education on sustainability and alternative living models through training and capacity building programs, internships and one-to-one designed collaborations related to ecological agricultural practices, arts, and sports.

Paraiso, Cartago, Costa Rica


El Apompal Ecoturism

Initiative of a group of rural communities that organize services and activities to attract tourism, while taking care of the local nature and culture

Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico


Little Donkey Farm 小毛驴市民农园

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm that promotes sustainable development by facilitating community involvement

Beijing, China


The Solar Night Schools Program - The Barefoot College

Migrants education, solar energy and drinking water solutions, healthcare, communication and culture, social empowerment


Tilonia, Rajasthan, India


The Tlaloc Barters Group

Alternative Barter System for local development

Mexico City, Mexico


ChildFund International

Socio-economic development for children and their communities

International


Fortalece
Consultancy and empowerment for the non-profit sector

Mexico City, Mexico

China Development Brief 中国发展简报 

Provides an online platform to disseminate information about Chinese civil society and promote its interaction and capacity building


Beijing, China


On Action • 在行动

Support for migrant workers with the help of volunteers (ex-migrants) who provide them with consultancies, help them to find employment, offer training courses, and promote their rights in the public and private sectors.

Beijing, China


The Shelter

Alternative tourism that uses alternative barter system

Zacatlan de las Manzanas, Puebla, Mexico


The Tumin Project

Alternative Barter System for local development


Espinal, Veracruz, Mexico

Upsala Circus • упсала чирк

Teaches circus skills to children and youth from vulnerable groups to enhance their opportunities.


Saint Petersburg, Russia

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