Message-ID: <19980207163753.20499.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 08:37:49 PST From: abdus samad <mailto:samad_100@HOTMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: UNHCR and Development To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
The issue of donor/international agency interface with domestic communities and action is very interesting indeed. I tried to post on this subject under the title of "donors vs. domestic capacity" and got a number of responses. Now it appears that Prof. Landau has been commissioned to do a project on a related subject.Unfortunately the literature on the subject is scattered and hard to find. It is also very difficult to distinguish betweent the earlier naive, left-liberal arguments from the now more serious work that is now developing.
My approach to the subject is that of a former resident of a poor country that the donor enterprise is upposed to help. I find that I am forced to practise my profession overseas because the donor enterprise has taken over what would otherwise have been done by people like me. To me this issue has nto been fully appreciated or understood. If the space for analysing and defining policy is fully occupied by donors and the few that they bless in government, the rest of us get crowded out.
I have been writing a lot on this subject and publishing in papers in teh poor countries. Where do I publish ideas like this in this country? How can I try to reach a woder development community for a discussion on these issues?
I would appreciate your help!
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>From: "Loren B. Landau" <mailto:l_landau@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>
>Subject: UNHCR and Development
>To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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>Dear All:
>
> While the UNHCR is formally not a development agency there has,
>over the past ten years, been a move to make assistance policy more
>compatible with long term development objectives. I am currently in
the >preliminary stages of a project exploring the explicit and implicit
>developmental 'ethic' which is guiding these efforts. This is not a
UN >bashing excercise, but rather an effort to explore how best to provide
long >term assistance to the displaced.
>
> I would welcome anyone's source suggestions or related work on
the >subject.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Loren B. Landau
>
> Dept. of Political Science
> 210 Barrows Hall
> University of California, Berkeley
> Berkeley CA 94720
>
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