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01. E-course :
Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)
Edition
01: 27 November, 2009
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,
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,
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,
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)
◄ 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
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