Ali Al Mokdad
Guest
Guest on The Unpopular View discussing localization, locally led aid ecosystems, and reform of the aid industrial complex.
Guest
Guest on The Unpopular View discussing localization, locally led aid ecosystems, and reform of the aid industrial complex.
Localization only matters if it changes who holds power, resources, and the ability to make outside aid unnecessary.
Every development program claims its goal is to leave. None of them do. The Green Revolution helped India move from famine risk to food exporter status and then ended because it succeeded. Much of today's aid system has not followed that logic. This episode argues that the only development model worth funding is one designed to make itself unnecessary by shifting authority, capacity, and long-term control to communities.
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