Organizational development is a discipline that needs to become more central to the practice of the development sector as a whole, not just a small professional enclave. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sovereignty’
A New Discipline for Development Practitioners
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July 26th, 2010 - 7:39 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
Seeing the future in sovereign local organizations – Part 2
A local sovereign organisation is an authentic expression of the will and voice of its own constituents. While it may accept funding to provide services, it is not a surrogate vehicle for the projects of another agency's purpose.[...]
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July 25th, 2010 - 6:00 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
Seeing the future in sovereign local organizations – Part I
Sovereignty is both a quality to be developed and a right to be respected and defended. It is a particularly powerful concept when applied to organisation, suggesting authentic qualities, describing a home-grown resilience, an inside-out identity, the idea of an organisation being the expression of [...]
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