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If
you visit a weights lifting gym only once, you will not build your muscles
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you look again at the key words and basic concepts that are important for
you to know, you will find the word "sustainability."
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is not found in most dictionaries). |
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How
can something we put in place be made sustainable so that it stays in place? |
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the community, whose goal was improved health, and objective was to construct
a latrine, its concern with sustainability is in questions like, "How
do we ensure the latrine will be kept clean, repaired, maintained and used?" |
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The
answer is in ensuring community responsibility (by community participation
in decision making and control) from the beginning of the project. |
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you, who has put in place a social process of social change, strengthening
the community, your concern with sustainability is more in questions like,
"How
will the community continue to take charge of its improvements, making
her assessments, choosing new priorities, seeking new resources, undertaking
new actions, increasing its self reliance?" |
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The
goals of you and of the community are different but complementary. You
want your intervention to be sustained. The question of sustainability
is answered in how you go about your mobilization. |
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goal is not a once-and-for-all latrine, school, clinic or water supply. |
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It
is sustainable development.
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module looks at how you can make your work sustainable. |
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Part
of the answer lies in repeating the mobilization cycle itself; part of
it lies in identifying and training mobilizers from within the target community. |
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