Advice is not care
Is the social good sector a formalized advice delivery system for people who are marginalized, and donor funding the compliance enforcer?
Is the social good sector a formalized advice delivery system for people who are marginalized, and donor funding the compliance enforcer?
“There are better approaches that can be employed to make sure that our development approach is participatory and strategic. But if we continue to force on communities ideologies born out of top-down approaches, we are not going to see the impact and change we desire.” A guest post by Clement N. Dlamini of the Institute of Development Management in Swaziland.
When people ask me why this farm-girl-turned-aid-worker has devoted herself to placing community-driven development initiatives at the forefront of aid, here’s why.
Sharing excerpts of twelve papers on international development and aid effectiveness from my reading pile.
For Camfed, governance is about…who controls resources, and where and to whom accountability lies within the communities it serves, said the report. It is also about the relationships and structures through which communities organise themselves.