Economically Sustainable Development: Practical Models for Long-term Ngo Viability

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Development projects, nearly always all hope and optimism at their inception, have often failed to maintain their impetus and impact in the long run. This is usually because they have failed from the outset to account for how imbalances of power, legacies of colonialism and global wealth inequalities can hamper their staying power. These hurdles have only become greater in the wake of Covid-19. Drawing on over twenty-seven years of experience on both the front lines and the corporate and business sides of international development, Raif Shwayri offers practical models for navigating the major structural and strategic problems currently facing the workers and organizations who strive to make significant, long-lasting changes in developing countries. Shwayri's new models emerge from his unique insights into the limitations of common approaches to structuring and monitoring initiatives, and they emphasize the crucial importance of vocational education, collaboration with business, and higher education and research for keeping an organization fresh and focussed. For its combination of industry-level analysis with insights gained from a wealth of personal professional experience, Economically Sustainable Development is a must-read not only for researchers in international development, but also for policymakers and practitioners struggling to come to terms with the state of an industry in a time of global economic crisis. Cover ECONOMICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Practical Models for Long-Term NGO Viability Copyright CONTENTS FOREWORD: FROM AID TO DEVELOPMENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT Introduction: Breaking Away from a Trickle-down Attitude 1. Rely on the Locals 1. Question Your Incentives. Appreciate Complexities and Traditions 2. Make Sense of Industrial Relations 2. Think Sustainability First 1. Economic Viability: Determine a Critical Size 2. Business Modeling 3. Build an Integrated Plan of Action 1. School–Enterprise Model 2. Galbraith Chain: Integration of Cycles and of Communities 3. Internal Leveraging to Serve a Common Cause 4. Support Higher Education and Applied Research 1. Nurture Local Institutions to Train the Leaders of Tomorrow 2. Trigger a Research-Oriented Mindset Throughout 5. Understand the Need to Structure 1. Subsidiarity and Expediency 2. System versus Structure 3. Plan Your Exit and Transfer Strategies 6. Choose Your Assessment Tool: M&E or ROI? 1. Failures of Institutional Monitoring & Evaluation Tools 2. The Importance of Private Investors 3. Social Equity 7. The Acid Test 1. It Takes These Two to Tango: FDI and Exports 2. Use Aid Budgets to Activate Sustainable Development 8. Learn to Rejuvenate 1. Diversify Your Programs and Operations 2. Kill Your Overheads: Yield and Contribution Management Conclusion: Loudison FURTHER READING JOURNALS FRENCH WEB JOURNALS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX