Land-use:
- Appropriateness of the innovations;
- Effectiveness and long-term durability of soil and water
conservation measures;
- Suitability of actions to protect and rehabilitate the
vegetation cover and measure of its biological diversity;
- Level of use of biological methods to improve soil fertility
and control pests;
- Innovations that have significantly improved water
availability and quality;
- Sustainability of exploitation of the natural resource base
and of the improved livelihoods of the community.
Social and economic
aspects:
- Level of economic and social benefits accrued;
- Cost effectiveness in labour time and maintenance of
innovations;
- Community involvement in activity planning and
implementation;
- Community contribution to activities in labour time and
inputs;
- Rate and degree of adoption of innovations at community
level;
- Social capital enhancement;
- Contribution to strengthening of local social structures;
- Extent of adoptions of approach innovations and by
surrounding communities;
- Sustainable benefits accruing to the wider community in
terms of infrastructure, facilities, organizations and social development;
- Project contribution to community empowerment in economic
and social spheres;
- Degree of community commitment to sustainable resource
development e.g. taking ownership and responsibility for resource management;
- Rate of progress in land adjudication and resolving land
tenure issues and the effect on local community action;
- Project effects on local shelter, sanitation, water supply
and health.
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Policy related issues:
- Degree of government support and commitment for project
activities and their replication;
- Establishment of enabling institutional frameworks at local
level;
- Effectiveness of existing institutional frameworks in
resolving land and tenure issues;
- Degree of adoption of public policy that decentralizes
control and eliminates undue interference in the individual’s management of his/her
natural resources;
- Degree of influence over positive changes in national land
use policy development.
For more information on success stories or
request for reports please contact:
Coordinator, Success Stories Initiative Social Dimensions and Sustainable
Practices
Dryland Ecosystems and Desertification
Control Programme Activity Centre (DEDC/PAC) United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) P.O Box
30552, Nairobi, Kenya Tel:(254-2)-623261;
Fax:(254-2)-623284; E-mail: elizabeth.migongo-bake@unep.org
IFAD
Programme Director and Deputy
to the Assistant President Economic and Policy Recource Strategy Department
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 107, Via del
Serafino 00142, Rome, Italy
Tel: (39-6) 54591
Fax: (39-6) 5043463
E-mail: IFAD@Ifad.Org
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