The development industry

7 important questions on The development industry

Actors in development world

They are not singular
there are academics, donors, politicians, activists,civil society and the intended beneficiaries

Between these actors there is one common perspective, what is it?

They all infuse their conversations about their work with moral and political assumptions and articulate that with the intentions to do really good. (they really belief they are all doing good things)

Reasons for donors to donate to development assistance

-international social contract
-responsible (quilt feelings)
-to reduce the instability in the developing countries
-self interest

(Think about Japan and whaling and China that gives aid in return that you recognize that Taiwan belongs to China)
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Recap: motives for development aid

-political and strategic
-economical and commercial
-environment and demographic
-ethic-humanitarian
-to stem the tide of the refugees

Only ethnic-humanitarian and environment-demographic are sincere desires to help

Keys to affective aid

-good governance (more affective in stable democratic, political countries)
-sound policies (open markets)
-good cooperation between donors
-ownership by the government and participation of affected people
-more impact outside the tropical zone
-Aid development always has a positive impact,even when the policies are poor

Policies, projects and programme

A project is a management system for creating change, a mechanism for turning ideas into outcomes. A policy is a broad statement of principles to guide action. It sets an overall goal or direction and what should be done. A program is based on policy. It takes the goals and guidelines and begins to operationalize them in terms of sets of activities and priorities. Policies and programs are essentially plans, statements or intents while a project put these plans into action in a certain place and time.


Directive vs.interactive planning (Nolan)


• DIRECT

-Blueprint planning
-Environment is known and predictable
- Detailed knowledge of techniques, outcomes is assumed to exist at the start
- knowledge is imposed on local context
-Decisions are largely final
-strategies and objectives are already spelled out in advance

INDIRECT


- Learning-process planning
-Env. is not completely understood and dynamic
- Incomplete knowledge is assumed; new learning is essential and one of the goals
-Meaning is developed within local context
-Decisions are experimental and dynamic
- Resources, activities and timetables are adjusted as insight is gained

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