News | July 1, 2013

Valued Sustainable Services: Building Partnership Capacity Through Collaborating Approaches

By Linton Wells II Defense Horizons 75

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Key Points 

  • The Valued Sustainable Services (ValSServ) concept can help build socioeconomic capacity and resilience in partner nations. It emphasizes interdependencies among three enabling capabilities: telecommunications, reliable power, and information-sharing support. 
  • ValSServ focuses on the development of capacity from the “bottom up,” while being consistent with “top down” national- and theater-level strategies. 
  • ValSServ projects will be chosen by local populations. But they must be sustainable over the long term so that external support is unnecessary. 
  • A realistic assessment must be conducted before beginning a ValSServ project. 
  • Education, experiential learning, and training should be part of all ValSServ plans to change behaviors so that lessons really can be learned and not just observed.
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