Ten Traps to Avoid if Aid Programming is Serious About Engag...

Ten Traps to Avoid if Aid Programming is Serious About Engaging with Context - Lessons from Afghanistan

Identifying and avoiding common traps in aid programming in fragile contexts using lessons from Afghanistan, emphasizing the importance of understanding and engaging with local context for effective interventions.

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Discretion is disallowed because of a belief that deviation from a plan is necessarily a distortion. Impartiality is guaranteed by perfect system design, i.e., only the wisdom and impartiality of the system designer can be trusted. But few, if any, contexts are simple, uniform and controllable, which are the preconditions for allowing strict preset... See more

Simon Levine • Ten Traps to Avoid if Aid Programming is Serious About Engaging with Context - Lessons from Afghanistan

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