Dusty Columbia Embury
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Dusty Columbia Embury
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Making local, personal, psychological and emotional aspects of development visible
Blog post by PHOEBE BEEDELL and is shared generously by The Ideal Practitioner. You might be interested in the PhD research that I’m doing with professional development workers and activists in Bangladesh – in-country nationals, rather than ex-pats. The situation of local professionals has been sorely overlooked in the relatively recent spate of ‘aidnographies’ that seek to […]
Read More...Flying under the results radar
Blog post by ANDREA RODERICKS and is shared generously by The Ideal Practitioner. What challenges does an “ideal” social change/development practitioner face in trying to live up to that ideal in the real world? I think the “individual agency” constraints are different for local practitioners and for those who work in a more international contexts. The […]
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Listening to Understand
Blog post by Andrea Rodericks and is shared generously by The Ideal Practitioner. What do you think are the most important practices and competencies of a social change/development practitioner? I have had a few occasions over the past year to reflect on some version of this question with different groups of people (NGO project managers, interns, […]
Read More...All of us are responsible
Blog post by MANSOOR ALI and is shared generously by The Ideal Practitioner. My 30 years of experience in the sector agree with most of this. When I make presentations to about this to all stakeholders, people fully accepted this is true and that ‘all of us are responsible’.Some said, this is how the sector operates, one […]
Read More...I don’t know, but I’ll try to find out
Blog post by GUY SHARROCK and is shared generously by The Ideal Practitioner. This post is inspired by the conversation started by Joanna and others (past weeks). I really appreciate the ideas that have been posed and I too would love to discuss more about this, as we have much to learn. Meanwhile, here are a few […]
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