Exploring project sustainability: using a multiperspectival, multidimensional approach to frame inquiry

Jason Sparks and David Rutkowski

Development in Practice, 2016, vol. 26, issue 3, 308-320

Abstract: In development studies, programme sustainability has gained significant attention in recent years. One challenge to sustainability is the range of stakeholders involved in international development projects, presenting multiple perspectives and priorities, not always in harmony, nor necessarily communicated. This article presents an approach to facilitating stakeholder sustainability dialogue, an analytic framework for programme sustainability inquiry comprising five dimensions: political; economic; institutional; ownership; and practice. To demonstrate this framework we describe inquiry into stakeholder perspectives in one Afghanistan education development project. The results indicate the value of multidimensional, multiperspectival inquiry in identifying areas of potential sustainability challenge and strength.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1153041

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