[IRPCoalition] [governance] Re: [bestbits] Second African School on IG

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I have seen my fair share of such gripes and can point to cases where 
capacity building would have worked far better than simply writing a check 
for grant money.

This is not to belittle the fact that funding is also necessary but neither 
is an exact substitute for the other



On November 18, 2014 9:44:26 PM Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

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> Thanks David.. and you will be missed. It was good to have so many
> people from NCUC there last year. I will also really miss having Carlos
> Afonso.. the participants really enjoyed learning from the Brazilian
> experience.
>
> On the other hand I am really pleased that we have such a strong
> contingent of African faculty and resource people joining us this year.
>
> We often talk about building capacity in IG, and I generally get
> irritated when it is used in ways that I find politically patronising
> (when used as a way of dealing with developing country gripes).
>
> We don't spend nearly enough time, either as civil society, or as
> Africans - in this instance - acknowledging how much capacity we already
> have.
>
> Anriette
>
>
>
> On 18/11/2014 16:02, David Cake wrote:
> > I hope it goes well, I very much enjoyed being a very small part of it in 
> 2013.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On 18 Nov 2014, at 4:15 pm, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org
> <mailto:anriette at apc.org>> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all
> >>
> >> Some of you will be there in person, but for those of you will not be
> there, you can find out more about the Second African School on IG which
> will start in Mauritius later this week.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Anriette
> >>
> >> http://african-ig-school.events.apc.org/
> >>
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