Achieving Indigenous Adoption and Sustainability

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1430592· OSTI ID:1430592

Walker, David Ellis ^[1]; Gale, Cassandra Maureen ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This study sought to develop a framework which would assist project implementers in their efforts to effectively indigenize technical and policy expertise in SNL's international partners. The initial assumption was that current and past projects undertaken by the Center for Global Security and Cooperation (CGSC) had produced many successful and effective tools and techniques to achieve indigenization and sustainability. As such, this study would be able leverage those tools and techniques to produce a common framework that would enhance SNL's ability to reproduce those past successes. Data was collected for this study by conducting a series of interviews and focus groups in order to elicit information about SNL's efforts and capabilities. The interviews focused on collecting data ranging from understanding definitions of sustainability and indigenization to financial considerations and various project management considerations. Initial findings showed that the problem statement originally formed in this study's hypothesis was missing elements of customer and in-country partner needs and goals which lead the interview team to adapt the original goal to determine what elements produced a success project rather than developing a framework. Overall the study found four main components that each successful project shared: the need to answer the right question, involve an institutional champion, the need to understand key stakeholders, and finally the need continually survey the project landscape.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1430592
• Report Number(s): SAND--2015-0184R; 661614
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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