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i have been away for the past two weeks working in various villages on our food security project. the project requires that we empower the villagers to formulate village action plans and establish committees that will help to implement those action plans. however i noted the there are so many projects which require the villages to implement various action plans through various committees. these projects come as independent projects and are not in any way linked to make the rural people understand them. most projects are introduced in a village without a stakeholder analysis and the people are told to do the very same things over and over without understanding the purpose behind it. for instance in this particular village the government requires them to make a village development plan as a requirement to access funding through decentralization, an agricultural project requires them to make a committee to access subsidized fertilizers, so does other sanitation, agricultural, food security, community police, an several other projects. my many concern is for the youths because they are the ones mostly active in these committees. and after talking to one young man who is in over three committees at once i noted that he was confused at what his role is in development as a whole. he explained that by the end of the day the people view participation in projects as a waste of time because they no longer meet the requirements of the donors. i therefore wish all donors would first do a stakeholder analysis in the particular village the are about to work in. and if possible co-implement project that have same objectives. and let us minimize these committees we are forever establishing in the villages. they are confusing.

August 20, 2008 | 2:54 AM Comments  0 comments

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