NGO Another Way (Stichting Bakens Verzet), 1018 AM Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

                                                                                    01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)

 

Edition 01: 27 November, 2009

 

Tekstvak:         Quarter 2.

 

 

 

Tekstvak: SECTION B : SOLUTIONS TO THE  PROBLEMS.

 

 

 

Study points : 06 points out of 18.

Minimum study time : 186 hours out of 504

 

The points are awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for  Section B :  Solutions to the Problems.

 


 

Fifth block : How the third block structures solve specific problems.

 

Study points : 02 points out of 18

Minimum study time : 54 hours out of 504

 

The points are awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for  Section B :  Solutions to the Problems.

 


 

Fifth block : How the third block structures solve specific problems.

 


 

Section 2: Capacity building. [5 hours]

 

02.00 Hours analysis of Model material.

02.00 Hours in-depth analysis.

01.00 Report


 

Section 2: Capacity building. [5 hours]

 

02.00 Hours analysis of Model material.

 

Read the work completed on  Moraisian Workshops in section 1. Justification of the order of sequence in the creation of the structures part of the fourth block: the structures to be created..

 

Annexes  09.11 Information on organisational workshops and  09.12 Bibliography on organisational workshops of the Model contain information on the work of the Brazailian Sociologist Clodomir Santos de Morais.

 

Capacity building

 

«Capacity building »  a neologism of uncertain parentage .... is, a transitive, interventionist and development-inducing concept , well within the parameters of mainstream development practice. Capacity building  or development of capacity is the language and strategy now used at all levels. This notwithstanding, it is, as Southern critics like to point out, a «concept used by Northerners towards Southerners, with reference to others rather than themselves, and within a context which sees Southern development organizations as local implementing agents for Northern policies. In this sense, «capacity »  refers largely to the «absorption capacity » of Southern organizations. » Carmen. R. And Sobrado M., Those Who don’t Eat and those who don’t Sleep, A Future for the Excluded,  Zed Books, London, 2008. (Citation de Kaplan, A : «The development of capacity », NGLS Development Dossier, Palais des Nations, Switzerland).     

 

1. Opinion

 

On one page,  apply the «concept used by Northerners towards Southerners, with reference to others rather than themselves, and within a context which sees Southern development organizations as local implementing agents for Northern policies” to the development initiatives which have taken place in your chosen area. Do you agree with Kaplan? Why?

 

Why a Method That Has Shown Such Excellent Results Has Not Spread  More Widely. 

 

«Capacity building »  or «organizing and training for the promotion of people’s initiatives and capacities » are mottos readily subscribed to by agencies all over the world, and with access to multi-million dollar resources, all with disappointingly meagre results. This has been the case not only in the so-called «developing » countries, but also with the poor and excluded in the «developed » world. Clodomir de Morais has achieved unrivalled results and successes in this very field, and in three continents, wherever his vision and interpretation of reality, his method of capacitation and his programmes for job creation and income generation have been applied over the last quarter-century. It is a real mystery, then, as to why his achievements have passed almost unnoticed. Especially by the aforementioned agencies, and why his method has not become standard practice all over the world.

 

«The first reason lies, we think, in the fact that a method that offers a sure-fire way of developing the autonomous capacities of the poor annoys those organizations and institutions that appear to operate according to a more or less cleverly disguised clientelist hidden agenda. This autonomous capacity goes against the grain, not only of the vested interests of the powers that be, but also of the culture of dependency and slavish conformity that is typical of a mutually reinforcing clientelist culture, typical of experts who put the organizations they are working for at their own service rather than serving them.

 

«A second inhibiting factor and one that, we think, has weighed extremely heavily is the conceptual mode and language, a throw-back to the 1950s, in which the Theory of Organization is couched. Even though Clodomir’s discourse, from a purist Marxist-Leninist perspective, is ideologically unorthodox in that he bases his theory and practice on the organizational capacities of people and not on the principles of class struggle, this mere association was enough to brand him and his ideas as instruments of «the Evil Empire », which was then only too easy for politicians and development experts who, for whatever reason, felt that his ideas needed rejecting......   

 

«Third, de Morais’ vision and method .... were starved, for too long, of the proper  research, systemization, conceptualization, theory-building and dissemination that might have made him more accessible to social scientists.... »   Sobrado M.,  Clodomir Santos de Morais : The Origins of the Large-Scale Capacitation Theory and Method, A Future for the Excluded,  ed. Carmen. R. And Sobrado M.,  Zed Books, London, 2008

 

2. Opinion

 

Sobrado thinks “ a method that offers a sure-fire way of developing the autonomous capacities of the poor annoys those organizations and institutions that appear to operate according to a more or less cleverly disguised clientelist hidden agenda.” Give a one-page opinion on his point of view Can you supply examples applicable to your country?

 

Assistentialism

 

«The total ignorance about [those] elementary sociological principles that have demonstrated their great operational value in the design and evaluation of projects is also a deplorable fact of life in the so-called developed countries as in the rest of the world.

 

« Here, as elsewhere, assistentialist policies and assistentialist  experts peddling their interventionist recipes abound.. Much-trumpeted «empowerment » or «capacity-building »  often boils down to little more than technical training courses that keep young unemployed boys off the street, or, at best, get them the occasional salaried job. Alternatively, clusters of training modules and services around the micro-enterprise cure-all are provided. »   Sobrado M.,  The OW’s :Potential : Concluding Observations, A Future for the Excluded,  ed. Carmen. R. And Sobrado M.,  Zed Books, London, 2008.

 

3. Opinion

 

On one page explain the difference between the Moraisian workshops used in integrated development projects and  technical training courses that keep young unemployed boys off the street”

 

Read your work on the industry of poverty in  section 1. Analysis of the causes of poverty in the first block : poverty and the quality of life of the course.

 

4. Opinion

 

On one page use the observations you have made as examples of why knowledge of the work of de Morais has not spread more rapidly.

 



 Fifth block : Section 2: Capacity building.

 Fifth block :  How fourth block structures solve specific problems.


Main index for the Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)

 List of key words.

 List of references.

  Course chart.

 Technical aspects.


 Courses available.

Bakens Verzet Homepage.


 

"Money is not the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them."

Gesell, Silvio, The Natural Economic Order, revised English edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228.

 

“Poverty is created scarcity”

Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.


 

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence.

 

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NGO Another Way (Stichting Bakens Verzet), 1018 AM Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

                                                                                    01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)

 

Edition 01: 27 November, 2009

 

Tekstvak:         Quarter 2.

 

 

 

Tekstvak: SECTION B : SOLUTIONS TO THE  PROBLEMS.

 

 

 

Study points : 06 points out of 18.

Minimum study time : 186 hours out of 504

 

The points are awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for  Section B :  Solutions to the Problems.

 


 

Fifth block : How the third block structures solve specific problems.

 

Study points : 02 points out of 18

Minimum study time : 54 hours out of 504

 

The points are awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for  Section B :  Solutions to the Problems.

 


 

Fifth block : How the third block structures solve specific problems.

 


 

Section 2: Capacity building. [5 hours]

 

02.00 Hours analysis of Model material.

02.00 Hours in-depth analysis.

01.00 Report


 

Section 2: Capacity building. [5 hours]

 

02.00 Hours analysis of Model material.

 

Read the work completed on  Moraisian Workshops in section 1. Justification of the order of sequence in the creation of the structures part of the fourth block: the structures to be created..

 

Annexes  09.11 Information on organisational workshops and  09.12 Bibliography on organisational workshops of the Model contain information on the work of the Brazailian Sociologist Clodomir Santos de Morais.

 

Capacity building

 

«Capacity building »  a neologism of uncertain parentage .... is, a transitive, interventionist and development-inducing concept , well within the parameters of mainstream development practice. Capacity building  or development of capacity is the language and strategy now used at all levels. This notwithstanding, it is, as Southern critics like to point out, a «concept used by Northerners towards Southerners, with reference to others rather than themselves, and within a context which sees Southern development organizations as local implementing agents for Northern policies. In this sense, «capacity »  refers largely to the «absorption capacity » of Southern organizations. » Carmen. R. And Sobrado M., Those Who don’t Eat and those who don’t Sleep, A Future for the Excluded,  Zed Books, London, 2008. (Citation de Kaplan, A : «The development of capacity », NGLS Development Dossier, Palais des Nations, Switzerland).     

 

1. Opinion

 

On one page,  apply the «concept used by Northerners towards Southerners, with reference to others rather than themselves, and within a context which sees Southern development organizations as local implementing agents for Northern policies” to the development initiatives which have taken place in your chosen area. Do you agree with Kaplan? Why?

 

Why a Method That Has Shown Such Excellent Results Has Not Spread  More Widely. 

 

«Capacity building »  or «organizing and training for the promotion of people’s initiatives and capacities » are mottos readily subscribed to by agencies all over the world, and with access to multi-million dollar resources, all with disappointingly meagre results. This has been the case not only in the so-called «developing » countries, but also with the poor and excluded in the «developed » world. Clodomir de Morais has achieved unrivalled results and successes in this very field, and in three continents, wherever his vision and interpretation of reality, his method of capacitation and his programmes for job creation and income generation have been applied over the last quarter-century. It is a real mystery, then, as to why his achievements have passed almost unnoticed. Especially by the aforementioned agencies, and why his method has not become standard practice all over the world.

 

«The first reason lies, we think, in the fact that a method that offers a sure-fire way of developing the autonomous capacities of the poor annoys those organizations and institutions that appear to operate according to a more or less cleverly disguised clientelist hidden agenda. This autonomous capacity goes against the grain, not only of the vested interests of the powers that be, but also of the culture of dependency and slavish conformity that is typical of a mutually reinforcing clientelist culture, typical of experts who put the organizations they are working for at their own service rather than serving them.

 

«A second inhibiting factor and one that, we think, has weighed extremely heavily is the conceptual mode and language, a throw-back to the 1950s, in which the Theory of Organization is couched. Even though Clodomir’s discourse, from a purist Marxist-Leninist perspective, is ideologically unorthodox in that he bases his theory and practice on the organizational capacities of people and not on the principles of class struggle, this mere association was enough to brand him and his ideas as instruments of «the Evil Empire », which was then only too easy for politicians and development experts who, for whatever reason, felt that his ideas needed rejecting......   

 

«Third, de Morais’ vision and method .... were starved, for too long, of the proper  research, systemization, conceptualization, theory-building and dissemination that might have made him more accessible to social scientists.... »   Sobrado M.,  Clodomir Santos de Morais : The Origins of the Large-Scale Capacitation Theory and Method, A Future for the Excluded,  ed. Carmen. R. And Sobrado M.,  Zed Books, London, 2008

 

2. Opinion

 

Sobrado thinks “ a method that offers a sure-fire way of developing the autonomous capacities of the poor annoys those organizations and institutions that appear to operate according to a more or less cleverly disguised clientelist hidden agenda.” Give a one-page opinion on his point of view Can you supply examples applicable to your country?

 

Assistentialism

 

«The total ignorance about [those] elementary sociological principles that have demonstrated their great operational value in the design and evaluation of projects is also a deplorable fact of life in the so-called developed countries as in the rest of the world.

 

« Here, as elsewhere, assistentialist policies and assistentialist  experts peddling their interventionist recipes abound.. Much-trumpeted «empowerment » or «capacity-building »  often boils down to little more than technical training courses that keep young unemployed boys off the street, or, at best, get them the occasional salaried job. Alternatively, clusters of training modules and services around the micro-enterprise cure-all are provided. »   Sobrado M.,  The OW’s :Potential : Concluding Observations, A Future for the Excluded,  ed. Carmen. R. And Sobrado M.,  Zed Books, London, 2008.

 

3. Opinion

 

On one page explain the difference between the Moraisian workshops used in integrated development projects and  technical training courses that keep young unemployed boys off the street”

 

Read your work on the industry of poverty in  section 1. Analysis of the causes of poverty in the first block : poverty and the quality of life of the course.

 

4. Opinion

 

On one page use the observations you have made as examples of why knowledge of the work of de Morais has not spread more rapidly.

 



 Fifth block : Section 2: Capacity building.

 Fifth block :  How fourth block structures solve specific problems.


Main index for the Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)

 List of key words.

 List of references.

  Course chart.

 

“Poverty is created scarcity”

Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.


 

Creative Commons License

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence.