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What happens after a development project closes? Do achieved outcomes continue to benefit beneficiaries? Or is the project and all that it achieved forgotten?
Comment in connection with the Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, in December 2015.
The prevalent design hegemony tends to support existing oppressive systems. An alternative approach focuses on the individual and is concerned with social innovation.
Using social media we become involved with the world. The danger is that we become complacent, that we only show our involvement through use of "likes" and other symbols.
Global warming has a dramatic impact on the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.
Advanced data technology in support of sustainable development has advantages. There are also disadvantages with using such technology in a developing country.
There is a seemingly endless list of must-know-tips for how "to make it", in this case when it comes to entrepreneurship. Some of the realities behind the hype are discussed.
Evaluation (understood very broadly) as a profession, and formalizing this profession. An example with establishing a network of evaluators in Bulgaria is given.
On project problems, sometimes referred to as white elephants. Why and how they occur and what project management can learn from them. Also to the extent the lessons learned happen early in impleentation, why they are useful in efforts to revise project implementation plans.
Sosialantropologen Fredrik Barth ble født i 1928 og døde i 2016. Her er noen personlige minner jeg har om og med ham.