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WELCOME</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Wednesday 4 June 2008, 10.00am - 11.30 am
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Seminar Room B <BR>Coombs Building #9,
Fellows Road, ANU <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">To respect or
not to respect…<SPAN class=012230105-26052008> </SPAN></SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">ethical
dilemmas of INGO development practitioners <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Conny Lenneberg, Head of International
Programs, World Vision Australia <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“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.” </FONT></P>
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</SPAN>Clause 2.1. under Organisational Integrity. ACFID Code of Conduct
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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 </SPAN><SPAN
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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”?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Pam Wesley-Smith</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Office of the </FONT><FONT size=2>Dean, ANU College
of Asia and the Pacific &</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>HC Coombs Building #9</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Tel: 61 2 6125 2221</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Fax: 61 2 6125 4214</FONT></DIV>
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