ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the impact of Stimulating Community Initiatives in Sustainable Land Management (SCI-SLM). In many ways the articulation of social innovation was one of the main strengths of SCI-SLM itself. A basic common denominator was working together to solve similar problems. SCI-SLM had initially embraced a methodology that characterised social innovation on the basis of the SRI-test but, after a dedicated support study, found that more appropriate was the SERR test, which looked for the four elements of Sustainability, Efficiency, Replicability and Responsibility. Surely all SLM-themed projects should make room for carefully targeted exchange visits and also keep an eye open for innovation, both technical and social. The TEES-test for technical innovation proved simpler and readily adopted: here the acronym TEES, based on technically effective, economically valid, environmentally friendly and socially acceptable' works, conveniently, both in French as well as English.
