Development projects aim to make a difference in communities. Funders often require that the intervention needs to last, or that it needs to effect change that will last, over an extended period of time. In short, a sustainable difference needs to be made and this is an important measure of success. However, there are inherent drivers in the combined system of donors and beneficiaries that counter sustainability. This article explores these drivers, and identifies project design elements that need to be in place in order to promote sustainability by countering the drivers. This approach is applied to an education project, and implications for ICT4D projects are developed.
Reference:
Marais, MA and Meyer, I. 2015. Design for sustainability: Countering the drivers of unsustainability in development projects. Journal of Community Informatics, 11(3), pp 1-17
Marais, M. A., & Meyer, I. (2015). Design for sustainability: Countering the drivers of unsustainability in development projects. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8544
Marais, Mario A, and I Meyer "Design for sustainability: Countering the drivers of unsustainability in development projects." (2015) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8544
Marais MA, Meyer I. Design for sustainability: Countering the drivers of unsustainability in development projects. 2015; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8544.