“Tid til at lytte” hedder rapporten, som har spurgt folk i vidt forskellige u-lande og svaret lyder samstemmende: Giv jer tid til at lytte og lære os og vore ønsker bedre at kende – konklusionen er, at der skal relativt lidt til at gøre bistanden langt mere effektiv.
LONDON, 21 January 2013 (IRIN): For aid workers struggling to deliver assistance promptly and effectively, time to think, time to talk and time to listen are rare luxuries.
But a new report from the US-based CDA Collaborative Learning Projects argues that making this time will be absolutely necessary to improving the quality and sustainability of international aid efforts.
“Not until I spent three weeks staying in a village did I feel like I was getting truthful information about what the community really needed and wanted,” one worker in Lebanon told the researchers.
The project’s research team itself took a lot of time to engage with aid recipients (modtagere), accompanied aid agency and NGO representatives in 20 different countries.
The views of more than 6.000 people have been distilled into the new publication, ‘Time to Listen’.
Dayna Brown, who worked on the report, says she was most surprised by how consistent the responses were.
“People described very similar experiences of the processes of international aid efforts,” she said, noting:
“And they explained how these processes often undermined the goals of assistance, in places that were as different as Zimbabwe to Burma, Angola, and East Timor”.
“Overall, we found that international aid is a good thing, and it is appreciated, but that assistance as it is now provided is not achieving its intent – but that the changes needed are both possible and doable.”
Beneficiary perspectives (set med modtagernes øjne)
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