Sustainability as a Key Imperative in Project Cycle Management: Sociological Considerations

An analysis of the contexts of individual and social well-being cannot be extricated from vital concepts such as sustainability and social cohesion. Subsequent to the economic crisis of 2008, social spending by local authorities fell drastically on an international level, and was accompanied by a constant reduction in personnel due to standstills of turnover and employment; this situation has also had very strong effects on the Third Sector (i.e. non-profit organisations with different structures and purposes, such as the voluntary sector, non-governmental organisations, belonging neither to the public sector nor to the private sector) , which was forced to gradually reduce its work spaces. The concept of welfare itself has undergone reconsideration, increasingly being connected to models of sustainable development, social innovation, and generativity.