Gwen van Boven
Technical sectretary
The NCEA/Sustainability Advice received a request from the Netherlands Embassy in Kigali dated 15 October 2018 to assess a proposal for the Sebeya Landscape Restoration programme, with specific attention to environmental, socio-economic and institutional sustainability.
Significant details
The proposal is assessed against the DSU Assessment framework for Sustainability Analysis that has been developed specifically for Dutch water and food security programmes. It looks at governance, people, planet and profit along seven dimensions, for each of which sustainability issues (up to 37 in total) have been defined. For each of the issues the following four questions have been answered:
1. Is the issue relevant for the proposed programme?
2. Does the proposal take this issue into account?
3. Are there opportunities to contribute to (or to strengthen) the integration of this issue in the proposal?
The findings of the NCEA were shared during a Q@E meeting on the 22nd of October 2018.