Post on 25-Jul-2015
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