Life is made of compromises.
Day by day living is a real struggle and requires full attention,
particularly in third and second world countries (that means for most of
the world population!).
NGOs are working pretty hard to reduce pain and poverty.
What I was surprised by when I visited several development projects in
India last year was the lack of communication between development projects
sometimes only separated by a very short distance. The result is the lost
of a huge amount of energy because of the duplication of researchs in the
same field about the same problem.
I think the Dr Michel Loots' project Vaccine for Poverty
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is an intermediate solution which allow NGOs to
receive information to be used directly in their project and to be diffused
to the local decision-makers, students and investigators.
Other people is required to fight against World Bank, International
Monetary Fund, European Commission projects which can worsen the poor
population situation. These persons are not the same ones as the ones
fighting at a local level against the effects of the capitalistic
liberalisation.
We must organize ourselves following the different levels of adversity we
have to fight:
- local organisations to improve population welfare
- regional teams to follow implementation of local and regional development
policies
- national consultancy organisations to scrutinize governemental projects
signed with international organisation and foreign countries (development
projects, loan, import-export treaties, etc)
- international participation in worldwide organisations to propose and
survey international laws implementation (as we do in ISPO,
http://www.simpol.org)
This several levels requires, at each step, very skilled people. I consider
Humanity Development Library as one of the tools which can spread knowledge
at the local level, giving NGOs the way to access useful information at a
very low cost. It's not a cure-all tool but it's a very positive one and
it's affordable, if, of course, local NGOs have their own computer, the
discussion goes then on the reality of the digital divide and the accuracy
of spending funds in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)
instead of hospitals, schools and more basic needs, but that's another
discussion...
Thanks.
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