Given the high commitment and strong leadership, the programme can continue providing high quality services to Afghan populations, manage the current challenges, and move on to the phase of consolidation and sustainability.
8 Secondly, we had insufficient funds to formally evaluate mechanisms that contributed to the success of this sustainability, so we cannot evaluate the relative importance during the sustainability phase of periodic meetings between participating units and the Keystone Center.
Once these have been addressed and the transformation accomplished, a subsequent focus should be on how to manage the post-change phase to ensure sustainability of the transformation.
Natural and synthetic fibres are typically not woven together in sustainable fabric design, because it can be difficult to pull them apart at the end of use phase, said Deidre Hoguet, director of sustainability and materials exploration at Designtex.
The pilot phase was guided by the principles of sustainability, scalability, and transferability, using technology to identify program structures in keeping with these principles (Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins [JC HEM], 2010).
For the purposes of our analysis, entry into this consolidation phase was considered to be evidence of sustainability.
Accordingly, it is imperative to consider the criteria of the aforementioned domains of sustainability in the initial phases of product development.
Shifting responsibilities from initial project leaders to other members of the multidisciplinary team was perceived to increase the chances of sustainability in the post-implementation phase.
In order to gain knowledge about sustainability of results, it is recommended to plan for the next phase of DACAW a study of the sustainability in the 5 districts that are being phased out.
Operationalization of partnership has to be shifted from the kick off phase to the sustainability phase.
In particular, the applicability of sustainability principles can be more advantageous in earlier phases of process design characterized by more degrees of freedom for decision making.
