SOME CD DICTUM

“Have courage to exercise your own understanding! – that is the motto of enlightenment.”

-        Kant, Immanuel.

“Sustainability is in many ways the ultimate test of development efforts. It requires not only that a project be successful in achieving its objectives during the project life but also that the benefits it generates continue beyond the time of the donor’s involvement – the durability of success.”

-        (Sustainability in Development Programmes, DAC Expert Group on Aid Evaluation.)

“Participatory approaches have gained a new legitimacy: even some would say orthodoxy. Success has conferred respectability: what was radical yesterday has become conventional today. For better or for worse, Participation in development is in process of becoming institutionalized.”

-        (Who changes? Institutionalizing participation in Development, J. Blackburn with J. Holland)