Tag Archives: international development
Worlds of Praxis
WOP-Quadrants and Development[Paper010]
The Dynamic of Emergence
The Dynamic of Emergence [3]
Nine Tips for International Development Practitioners
March 2016 marked ten years since I began working in International Development focusing primarily on local economic development. So I thought this a good time to put down a few insights that I have found useful or which I think … Continue reading →
Riding on Trust
Postcard from Hanoi I am free falling, no escape. My head in my hands, panic somewhere just below where my heart should be. I tell myself I have been to this place before and so far it has always ended … Continue reading →
All is not as it seems ….again
We have flown into the Indonesian island of Flores on the local airline Merpati. The plane is delayed. As a colleague said “It’s mer party and I fly if I want to”. Arriving at Maumere, we made the three hour … Continue reading →
Don’t Forget Me
I arrived in Jakarta last night. It is midday Saturday and I am in a chair with a woman at my feet. Rogers, with its white marble polished floors and large central tank with colourful corals and exotic fish, is … Continue reading →
Believing Into Real
Belief in what is real takes all kinds of forms. I recently bought a new pair of glasses in Jakarta. They cost about the same as they would have in Australia, but I needed them, my world increasingly out of … Continue reading →
What to do?
I am currently in Hardoi, which is somewhere in northern India two hours from Lucknow in India, in spell check comes up as ‘hairdo’. It has been around 43 degrees all week. We are meeting with farmers who are poor … Continue reading →
Gifts of Faith and Other Things
One thing that I learn again and again in Indonesia, is not to take anything for granted, not the day , not the plan, and especially not the sleep. I arrived in Rote on Monday morning with Chris Rowlands, a Markets … Continue reading →
Ready or Not
I am sitting in the airport lounge at Kupang in West Timor waiting for the plane to Jakarta, we are already two hours late and the plane still hasn’t arrived. I came to Kupang to conduct interviews for a Access … Continue reading →
What am I doing here? 