Monday, August 16, 2004
Missing out on the grassroots
This interview with Dr Jean-Louis Lamboray, one of the founders of UNAIDS, the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, shows that the big organizations still are missing out the grassroots level.
After years of meagre results or even failure we still aren't learning that we must value people's lives and work, their experience and knowledge in order to make progress in development and cooperation.
I agree with Dr. Lamboray that we must ajust top-down policies and we have to have give people a feeling of `ownership,' that they are in charge of the response from the bottom up. Being told from the top what to do and what not to do is not good enough.
interview
After years of meagre results or even failure we still aren't learning that we must value people's lives and work, their experience and knowledge in order to make progress in development and cooperation.
I agree with Dr. Lamboray that we must ajust top-down policies and we have to have give people a feeling of `ownership,' that they are in charge of the response from the bottom up. Being told from the top what to do and what not to do is not good enough.
interview
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I agree that "ownership" and "bottom-up" is the key to sustainable successful projects in the social and development domain!
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