Message-ID: <36C4607A.D05AC557@persocom.com.br> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:10:19 -0200 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR> Subject: Strategic Planning for Development To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Dear Friends,During the last *Partners of the Americas International Conference*, in Washington DC November 98, there were a session about Strategic Planning for our international development NGO's next years. (please visit www.partners.net) As I was not able to attend this Conference, and as the socio-environmental situation in Brazil is quickly deteriorating - demanding very strategic planning urgently - I would like to call your attention to some strategic points that may apply for other countries as well. (only the first point is specific for Brazil).
1. for its size, population, racial and social complexity, for its huge and historic unfairness, ecological wealth and environmental problems that may affect the planet, Brazil cannot be ignored in any strategic international development planning. To plan is to settle priorities and perceive medium to long range processes and trends, is it not? 2. for being the Brazilian capital, where live the President and the Secretaries, and often visited by the governors from all Brazilian states, and for being a city where the Brazilian unfair socioeconomic model is very present, Brasilia has also a strategical importance. 3. for being young and so constituting our future society, and also for being at great risk, under severe attack from our current commercial culture of selfishism, sexism, consumism and violence, the children and youngsters deserve a special focus in our programs. 4. for providing income, self-esteem, environmental education, environment beautification, trash recycling, food and health security etc., community gardening and urban agriculture deserve special attention. Micro entrepreneurial skills development, micro credit, local currency, ethics education are possible complementary activities to tap and release youth and community productive forces. 5. for allowing people to communicate more easier than never, and for making possible that information reaches the poor and the distant, internet resources are also strategic for all activities and objectives.
Of course I don't mean that other countries deserve less priority than Brazil (or that other Brazilian states deserve less attention than Brasilia), but I mean that the 5 arguments above should be considered in any strategic plan designed to reach concrete results the faster possible. And maybe these same arguments apply for other countries and states, for sure. But if time is the critical factor, strategic steps should be designed in order to attain results the faster possible. If Brazil finds a way that makes viable its own future, all the other countries (and not only the Latin American and Caribbean ones) - who live similar socio- economic -cultural- environmental problems but always less acutely than here - will feel they could also change and become viable too. Internet and a good communication framework would permit that this same process could be developed in many countries simultaneously, providing an interactive environment that would foster our move toward a sustainable world society.
For all these reasons I cannot understand why not just Partners, but also other NGOs and agencies as World Bank or USAID and CIDA don't support any program involving youth development, urban and periurban agriculture, and internet intercommunity communications. And please don't think that they are not supporting because the ongoing programs in these strategic areas, in Brasilia and in Brazil, are running quite well and don't need their support. Because the reality is: there is not any program in these areas running here in Brasilia, and even in Brazil the projects are very weak and isolated from each other and from the international scene. For instance, researching food security in the US and Canada I have found out that these countries are more committed to fight hunger than Brazil is. Why? Is hunger more a problem in US and Canada or in Brazil. In Brazil nobody is discussing and implementing community gardens, urban agriculture, food community banks, waste home composting and wormcomposting as people do in these two Northern countries. Sorry, but I cannot stand this paradoxical situation.
Two very recent examples of the socio- economic situation we are living here: 1. In 1999, according the Federal Budget, Brazil will pay for its domestic and foreign debts, more than US$ 350,000,000,000 (billion dollars). The expenses with public health will receive 11 billion dollars, education 19 billion dollars, new investments 8 billion dollars. I see this as a new procedure of collecting the tributes as peripheral populations did to old Egypt, Rome and England. This payments are quickly destroying our current social tissue and we need to prepare, test, demonstrate and replicate other social solutions that keep local people safe from this economical world war and defeat. 2. This last week end brought a new record of violence in Sao Paulo city: 80 people were killed in 48 hours. (most killers are 14-22 years old)
PS - If you want please to learn about our strategic efforts, here in Brasilia, on youth development, urban agriculture, micro credit etc. and by visiting our web site www.partners-bsbdc.org and clicking on the LATEST INCLUSIONS AND UPDATES
PS - If you know about a next discussion on strategic planning for community and international development, please advise me to participate if you don't mind to meet a different point of view proposing other attitudes, which I think are more able to produce the concrete results and the new hope that the population is in need. (Now, at least here, people - including the youth - are becoming increasingly hopeless as the socio environmental and economic crisis only intensifies, every week). I would like very much to work with people who don't face international and community development just as his or her job (or hobby), but as an imperative and permanent action motivated by knowledge, wisdom, gratitude, love for our posterity and compassion for all living beings. (You remember that I am trying this contact with your NGO, university or international development agency since Internet arrived in Brazil, four years ago). Cheers, Yours, J.
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