NEF Discussion Forum NEF Online Discussion Groups allow busy practitioners, development program managers, interested students and academics to explore with colleagues issues facing contemporary development practice. With the limited capital we have, we've managed to reach several hundred individuals and can fairly estimate that we have helped those individuals to increase their monthly income by an amount which lifts them out of the range of necessity into having some choice in their lives. This change in policy has caused the collapse of a significant number of smaller projects for which we as an agency provided capital.
Folks seem to be back where they started.
I want to continue to help people but it all seems so futile and a bit unfair. I've set up a meeting with my Director for a frank discussion on the issues. Now it seems that all I ever hear about is human resource development, institution building and economic reform. Worst of all, most of these activities seem to ignore the very people I want to help. I ve noticed over the years that the further away you are from the people you aim to serve, the more status you seem to have in the eyes of many others and the more professional you are often considered to be.