NGO "ANOTHER WAY" (STICHTING BAKENS VERZET), NETHERLANDS, SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED SELF-FINANCING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES

Les annexes 09.11 INFORMATIONS SUR LES ATELIERS OW et 09.12 BIBLIOGRAPHIE ATELIERS OW du Modèle contiennent des informations (en anglais) sur le travail du sociologue Brésilien 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, Suisse. )

1. Opinion.

Sur une page appliquez l’idée d’un “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” aux initiatives de développement qui ont eu lieu dans votre zone. Êtes vous d’accord avec l’opinion du Kaplan? Pourquoi?

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 pense “qu’une méthode qui offre une voie certaine au développement des capacités autonomes des pauvres va contre les intérêts des organisations et institutions qui semblent opérer selon un ordre du jour qui en couvre les intentions clientélistes.” Expliquez sur une page ce que vous en pensez. Pouvez-vous fournir des exemples applicables à votre pays ?

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.

Expliquez sur une page mots, la différence entre les ateliers Moraisiens prévus au Modèle de développement intégré et “des cours de formation technique dont le but est de tenir les jeunes loin de la rue.”

Lisez votre travail sur l’industrie de la pauvreté dont à la section 1. Analyse des causes de la pauvreté du premier bloc : La pauvreté et la qualité de vie du cours.

4. Opinion.

Sur une page utilisez les observations que vous y avez fait comme exemples du pourquoi le travail de Morais ne s’est pas diffusé plus rapidement.

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◄ Cinquième bloc : Section 2: Capacity building.

◄ Cinquième bloc : Comment les structures dont au troisième bloc font face à des problèmes spécifiques.

◄ Table matières pour le Diplôme du Développement Intégré (Dip.Dév.Int)

◄ Liste des mots clefs.

◄ Liste des références.

◄ Schéma du cours.

◄ Aspects techniques.

◄ Cours disponibles.