Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505220030.B19855-0100000@cln> Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 01:01:12 -0700 From: VALERIE BRUCE <mailto:vbruce@CLN.ETC.BC.CA> Subject: Re: Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
I agree, real experts are preferable to novices. I don't think novices are deliberately recruited, generally, for foreign assignments, though. Perhaps it's a case of taking the best of whoever applies. To get the experts to leave their comfortable homes and positions to live in a hardship post necessitates the payment of a very good salary and generous benefits. Valerie Bruce On Sun, 21 May 1995, amanuel wrote:> Though I support the idea of a physical presence of donors in the field,
> in the South, care should be taken to have real experts in stead of
> eco-tourists and would-be-experts. Oftentimes, we see so-called experts who
> upon scrutiny happen to be novices. Simply because the South needs
> foreign aid and expertise does not mean ANYBODY should be accomodated.
>
> Amanuel Melles
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