Mr. Pearce is certainly thinking more in the long term and more clearly than many. I worked six-weeks on a big, initially well organized CARE five year project in Upper Egypt, the resident U.S. leadership remarked that they had just started to make progress: "so far we have trained them just enough to be dangerous (to themselves)!" Six months later there was a glowing independent review --- and a month later CARE fired everyone and pulled out! The employees included local area leaders, and there were also village leaders who were elected by village peers. However, the "rug was pulled out.
I have also worked on projects with dedicated, local leadership, who depended on outsiders only for training and support. Hopefully, I did valuable training, but they all needed continuing support that was rarely adequate.
Mr. Pearce is certainly thinking more in the long term and more clearly than many. I worked six-weeks on a big, initially well organized CARE five year project in Upper Egypt, the resident U.S. leadership remarked that they had just started to make progress: "so far we have trained them just enough to be dangerous (to themselves)!" Six months later there was a glowing independent review --- and a month later CARE fired everyone and pulled out! The employees included local area leaders, and there were also village leaders who were elected by village peers. However, the "rug was pulled out.
I have also worked on projects with dedicated, local leadership, who depended on outsiders only for training and support. Hopefully, I did valuable training, but they all needed continuing support that was rarely adequate.