Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505202051.A14902-0100000@cln> Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 20:51:42 -0700 From: VALERIE BRUCE <mailto:vbruce@CLN.ETC.BC.CA> Subject: Re: Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
I don't know how many donors accept that field management is appropriate, but it certainly is essential, if they don't want the funding to disappear and the project scuttled.I think that any individual involved in the dispersal of aid funds MUST spend at least 2 years IN THE FIELD, where the real action is, so they know what really goes on in the aid game. Only by actually living in a third world country over a period of time can one begin to understand and appreciate the complexities, differing values, and the motivations of the process and the donees. The people who have not lived abroad in these countries don't have enough knowledge or understanding, at a gut level, of how things work there. Valerie Bruce
On Wed, 17 May 1995 mailto:MILLERK@axe.humboldt.edu wrote:
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> > With strict NGO
> > management in the field, not from the office in the US or wherever.
>
> But how many NGO's are self-funded? How many donors accept that field
> management is a sensible way to go?
> At any scale, a large part of the conceptual problem is that the
> money-managers want "success," and your field offices are down the tube
> if they start "experimenting."
>
> kerry
>