Is Sustainability Possible? A Review and Commentary on Empirical Studies of Program Sustainability

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The dynamic sustainability framework: addressing the paradox of sustainment amid ongoing change (2013, background): “Recent articles [22-24] have advanced the idea of an adaptation phase that bridges from the initial implementation effort to a longer-term sustainability phase.”
An agenda for research on the sustainability of public health programs. (2011, methodology): “A recent review of evidence-based research and evaluations on the sustainability of health programs suggested that about 40% to 60% of such interventions do continue in some form, but the methodology behind this evidence is relatively weak.(11) Often, authors did not provide clear definitions for th”
Implementation Matters: A Review of Research on the Influence of Implementation on Program Outcomes and the Factors Affecting Implementation (2008, methodology): “…were used to identify factors affecting implementation, and for this area we also included the commentaries of several authors based on their extensive research or field experiences (e.g., Elias et al. 2003; Hogan et al. 2003; Kealey et al. 2000; Mihalic et al. 2004; Scheirer, 2005; Wolff, 2001).”