I was fascinated by the case in Activity 2 – not least by the various characters who feature in it, whom I spent some time investigating. There can be little doubt that this case, which refers to work in South Sudan in particular, presents an account of development management.
Read ‘“Expect the unexpected”: starting successful partnerships in fragile states’ (George, 2014) using the conceptual framework presented in the previous section, with its six basic elements:
You will perhaps note that the heading, ‘Expect the unexpected’, directly brings into play the last of these features, emergence. I can assure you that all six features, not just emergence, are there to be discovered, as well as comments that might be taken as referring to good development management.
This raises a number of opportunities for personal exploration. You could, for example, search to find out more about one or two of the interested parties, the individuals and their agencies. (They are all online.)
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