DVM 2106 Lecture 1: Reading - Who will guard the guardians
21 Jun 2018
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Who will guard the Guardians? Amartya Sen’s contribution to development evaluation –
Stephen Porter and Jacques de Wet
- Guardians = all those involved in implementing development work (governments, local
partnerships)
Key Themes
- Application of capability approach in improving the performance of the guardians to help better
serve the community
- Study scope: action learning process facilitated by PME actors in VSO-RAISA
- Methodology: focused group discussions with care givers of people affected by HIV/AIDS
Actors of the Research Studies
- Practitioners engaged in voluntary services
- VSO-RAISA – implementing agencies
- Volunteers – service providers (care takers)
- Target groups : aid victims
Key methods of studies:
- Analyze the meta issues
- Link between meta issues and capability approach
- Interpretation of FGD results in relation to the capability approach to challenge the practices of
the guardians
- Identify or explore the questions to guard the guardians
Key arguments
- Scope of capabilities approach in action learning process
- Dominant ideologies of development and their influences on the values of the guardians
- Power relations within the development agents
- Ethics of development organizations/donors
- Marginalization of the values of the target groups
The Meta Issues
- Agendas and priorities of development agents
Donors define the project terms
Document Summary
Guardians = all those involved in implementing development work (governments, local partnerships) Application of capability approach in improving the performance of the guardians to help better serve the community. Study scope: action learning process facilitated by pme actors in vso-raisa. Methodology: focused group discussions with care givers of people affected by hiv/aids. Interpretation of fgd results in relation to the capability approach to challenge the practices of the guardians. Identify or explore the questions to guard the guardians. Scope of capabilities approach in action learning process. Dominant ideologies of development and their influences on the values of the guardians. Marginalization of the values of the target groups. Implementing agencies develop funding proposals and collect data for future projects. Facts and figures under the domain of beneficiaries groups (target groups, local organizations and the project planners) Dominant ideology of development and producing knowledge but not considering the world"s view orr community"s perpsectives.
