Pillar Talk - Impact & Sustainability: Setting & Achieving Incremental Goals... (7/25/2024)
Sustainability is the cornerstone of development work – and the most successful solutions not only address health, but also incorporate environmental, social, and economic outcome goals. Development partners are investing together in long-term viability of relevant standards, best practices, consistent results, and community resilience. These strategies are particularly effective with local insight and collaborative assessments that ultimately build trusted long-term relationships. This approach takes time, focus and alignment in design, planning, measurement, and goal setting, along with a consistent and predictable source of funding. While donors understand the challenges of achieving impact within a predetermined funding cycle, this is often at odds with the realities on the ground. Implementing a program and reporting on progress and successes often does not match up with donor reporting demands. As such, setting realistic and time-bound goals is essential not only to demonstrate success but also to keep the funding tap turned on. Watch and hear what PQMD members and their partners are doing within this landscape to set goals, achieve success and show sustainable impact.
During PQMD’s Pillar Talk – Impact & Sustainability: Setting & Achieving Incremental Goals when Funding is Finite we heard trends, insights, challenges, metrics, and success stories from leading organizations on their processes and pathways to achieving sustainable outcomes in a landscape of finite resources.