ViVid Viability
What Viability Means for ViVid
Viability seeks to consolidate the economic and structural foundations of CSA/LSPA networks. Numerous networks encounter difficulties in ensuring equitable wages for farmers and maintaining the economic sustainability of the network. By refining economic strategies and governance, as well as by promoting methods to uphold network coordination and cohesion, ViVid empowers them to become more resilient and better positioned to support farmers and consumers in the long run.
Viability of CSA and LSPA Networks
The aim of this guide is to improve the sustainability of CSA initiatives and their networks by facilitating the identification of priorities for collective action and foster the capacity of members to communicate effectively within their networks.
This guide equips participants to enhance their skills in strategically implementing diagnoses, planning the execution of concrete actions, improving interpersonal communication and active listening among members, and mastering various strategic tools for CSAs.
This module focuses on Viability. More specifically, we worked to empower networks to consolidate their economic, organizational, and strategic sustainability.
Coaching Session Highlights
Webinar Highlights
ViViD Viability, Module 1 Webinar (French)
This webinar addressed the viability pillar of the project’s three-V framework (Visibility, Viability, LiVeability). The content in the conference addressed the holistic working definition of network viability (member wellbeing, internal and external recognition, advocacy strategy, financial strength, knowledge-sharing and training, communication and recruitment, and sustainable funding), condensed into five pillars: finance, governance, knowledge, human resources, and communication.
The participants engaged on the material via a tool testing format rather than a presentation. Participants from French, Belgian and Italian networks contributed to an opening word cloud, identified an individual viability challenge at the network scale of their choosing, and worked through around 35 minutes of Troika peer coaching in breakout groups.