This is a follow-up post to my previous one over the lack of adequate diagnosis by Engineers Without Borders in determining the cause of failures they have admitted. Here I turn my attention away from the admitting failure process to address the substance of EWB’s failure. It is also specifically a response to Erin Antcliffe’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘volunteers’
26 Oct
When admitting failure isn’t enough
There have been some great posts on the second aid blog forum on admitting failure. Many bloggers picked up, as I like to think I did, on the fact that admitting failure is just one aspect of lesson learning (another tautological piece of yucky aid jargon), that we all ought to be doing as a [...]
25 Jun
Starting Out
We all start out somewhere. A few years ago a regular topic of conversation amongst my friends here might be to slag off one or all of the volunteer agencies that bring gap-year kids out to Africa to do something meaningful, but which mostly achieve very little, and 99% of the benefit typically goes to [...]
