challenges to basic services
TRANSCRIPT
22 March 2012
Challenges and Opportunities
to Basic Services in Developing
Countries
Mansoor Ali
Reflections from 25 Years
Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University, Karachi
Mansoor Ali | 22 March 2012
What is Practical Action? Fritz Schumacher, Author of Small is
Beautiful and Founder of Practical
Action (Intermediate Technology)
in 1969
www.practicalaction.org.uk
The Context;
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Gaps in Basic Services
Geographical distribution of gaps
Impact on different groups
Global Strategies;
Advocacy
Policy influencing
Loans and aids
Capacity development
What has changed?
Subsequent Challenges
Restricted role of NGOs
Gaps between research and practice
Layers of institutions
Corruption
In-effective leadership
So, where is the opportunity?
Search for new institutions
Research to inform the institutions
New ways of working
New ways of thinking