Corfu produces !

 

 

The Producers’ Network “Corfu Produces will be at HO.RE.CA from 7th till 11th February 2014

Το Δύκτιο Παραγωγών Κερκυρας “Η Κέρκυρα Παράγει” θα βρίσκεται στην HO.RE.CA από 7 έως και 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2014

Start Where You Are

 

Economic Development as if People Mattered

Start Where You Are.

Why do so many projects fail to deliver promised results? It is often due to the fact that expectations are based on the assumptions of the donors and their hired gun consultants rather than the experience of the people involved or the reality of the situation in the target area. I like to think that my forty several years of experience in many countries give me certain aspects of the economic development process. It does not, however, provide me with an innate understanding of the position in which people find themselves in different cultures and economic settings. To learn that, I must spend time with those people, learn at least some of what they know and try to understand the environment in which whatever sort of project we intend to put on the ground will be developed.

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