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Sustainability Initiative Reports
July 2008:
Post-project sustainability evaluation of Concern Bangladesh CS project
by Eric Sarriot and Concern staff
November 2004:
Lessons learned from applying the child survival sustainability assessment (CSSA) framework to seven maternal and child health projects
presents the experience of CARE and IRC in Sierra Leone; PCI in Indonesia; WV in India; Project Hope in Nicaragua; ADRA in Madagascar; and CWI in Bangladesh. This report also offers practical guidelines for conducting a Sustainability Assessment at different stages of a project life.
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Annex 9 (Indices) Zip:289 KB / PDF: 322 KB
IJHPM Publications:
You can download the 2 paper series written jointly by CSTS+, CORE, and mumber of PVOs/NGOs, from the International Journal of Health Planning and Management:
1. Qualitative research to make practical sense of sustainability
2 Sustainability assessment in NGO-implemented primary health care programs


The Child Survival Sustainability Assessment (CSSA) for a shared sustainability evaluation methodology in Child Survival interventions presents the CSSA tool in some detail. It also starts with a quick overview of the background volume, and can serve as a "fast read" on the Sustainability Initiative.
Read the executive summary
Download the entire document (PDF, 686k)

Sustaining Child Survival: Many roads to choose, but do we have a map? will provide you with a detailed description of the sustainability study we conducted last year, and which served as a base to develop the Child Survival Sustainability Assessment framework. This document also has a fairly detailed description of the study background, including a review of the literature and the results of the self-assessment.

Read the Executive Summary

Download the document (PDF, 1057k)

Case Studies from European AID Agencies:
Good Practice Guidelines for Making Health Innovations Sustainable [in French]


Click here for an overview of and links to monitoring and evaluation assessment instruments and resources (papers, tool compendiums) that can be used to assess the different components and dimensions described in the Child Survival Sustainability Assessment."

Links to previous CSTS+ and CORE sustainability events and other documents:

1.      Dialogue Meetings: Two meetings book-ended CORE and CSTS+’ Sustainability Initiative effort. Each meeting brought a diversity of experienced practitioners to consider critical questions and next steps for PVOs/NGOs about sustainability in child survival:

  • Sustainability Dialogue, March 2000
  • PVO Contributions to Sustainable Child Health, January 2003

These documents are available online at: 

http://www.childsurvival.com/documents/Sustainability.doc
http://www.childsurvival.com/documents/workshops_3.cfm

2.      Training & workshops:

- Child Survival and Health Project Design: Applications of the Sustainability Assessment Framework. This practical workshop took place December 16-17, 2003 at Macro International, Calverton, MD. Presentations and activity guidelines are available on http://www.childsurvival.com/Documents/workshops_3.cfm

- Presentations and documents (e.g. the "2 districts" exercise) used for the mini university 2003 sessions on capacity building and sustainability are available at: http://www.childsurvival.com/Documents/workshops_1.cfm

A training workshop on planning for sustainability was organized by Save the Children, USA and CSTS+ in Mali, in November 2001.  A complete report with presentations and annotated report of the group work is also available on: http://www.childsurvival.com/documents/workshops_3.cfm
Scroll down to: EVALUER ET PLANIFIER POUR LA PERENNITE - Mali, 11/01 (French)

3.      The Child Survival Grants Program Review 2001 contains a number of valuable lessons about PVO efforts in capacity building and sustainability strategies.
Find this document on:  http://www.childsurvival.com/documents/csts.cfm

4.      Useful links to Sustainable Health and Sustainable Development questions, including evaluation tools and field reports can be found on our links page (scroll down to Capacity Building & Sustainability):  http://www.childsurvival.com/features/links/links.cfm

5.      Other studies of interest from the PVO experience: La Rue Seims' 2000 sustainability post-intervention study in Bangladesh and Bolivia is available on CORE's web site at http://www.coregroup.org/imci/CoreItemDetail.asp?ID=201

Mary-Beth Powers' 1995 "Sustainability Findings of 12 PVO Child Survival Projects" can be downloaded here.

If you would like to inform the PVO and general child health community of innovations, lessons learned, advances in sustainable strategies, please send an email to James Ricca (James.G.Ricca@macrointernational.com) or Jennifer Yourkavitch (Jennifer.M.Yourkavitch@macrointernational.com) and we will build up this page as needed.

 

 

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