Embracing Local Knowledge Is the Key to Resilience in Northern Kenya, Not Project...: Kenya
'In the welter of jargon-heavy policy documents promoting 'resilience-building', the big question remains - what is 'resilience', and for whom?'
Millions of dollars have been spent on these donor-approved top-down schemes over the years. But in the welter of jargon-heavy policy documents promoting"resilience-building", the big question remains - what is"resilience", and for whom? The result is a predictable set of standardised box-ticking donor-driven projects that all too often fail. For example, approaches that encourage"livelihood diversification", such as poultry projects or irrigated farming, may not fit with the flexible, mobile livelihoods of pastoralists. Worse still, such initiatives can create forms of dependency on external aid, undermining the adaptability of existing pastoral systems.
At the bottom of the table, in all the discussions we conducted, were government and NGO officials. The interviewees argued they often came late, offered the wrong kind of support, and were not reliable partners.
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