ORIENT: [Cap.all] FW: REMINDER: World Vision Seminar - Conny Lenneberg

[Pam wesley Smith]

REMINDER AND VENUE CHANGE.


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From: Pam wesley Smith [mailto:pam.wesley-smith at anu.edu.au] 
Sent: Monday, 26 May 2008 3:05 PM
To: 'CAP.all at anu.edu.au'
Subject: World Vision Seminar - Conny Lenneberg


ALL WELCOME

 

Wednesday 4 June 2008, 10.00am - 11.30 am 

LAW SPARKE HELMORE THEATRE 1  
Fellows Road, ANU 

 

To respect or not to respect. ethical dilemmas of INGO development
practitioners 

 

Conny Lenneberg, Head of International Programs, World Vision Australia 

 

"In all its activities .the organization will accord due respect to the
dignity, values, history, religion and culture of the people with whom it
works consistent with principles of basic human rights." 

            Clause 2.1. under Organisational Integrity. ACFID Code of
Conduct 

 

Most development practitioners would agree respect for local people and
their culture is a paramount value that underpins our work.  In one form or
another it is embedded in INGO codes of conduct and effectiveness standards,
as well as emerging from program evaluations as a critical element in the
success of any development interventions.  It is a truism to state that
development programs must genuinely engage communities in determining their
own priorities and needs in order to establish the minimum conditions for
relevance and sustainability.   More recently debate has centred on how to
strengthen NGO accountability to communities not only to make participation
meaningful, but for the achievement of agreed outcomes.   Yet development
practitioners (as opposed to charity workers) also set out with a radical
social change agenda - to change the power dynamics within communities that
lead to systematic marginalization and perpetuate conditions of enduring
poverty and exploitation for its most vulnerable.    Reconciling these two
imperatives is clearly problematic.  The question I want to explore in this
workshop, from a practitioner perspective, is "what is the ethical basis for
INGOs challenging and seeking to change local cultures, belief and
practices"?
 
 
Pam Wesley-Smith
Office of the Dean, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific &
Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
HC Coombs Building #9
Tel:   61 2 6125 2221
Fax:   61 2 6125 4214
 

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