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Public Sector, and NGOs
Any one a government's initiative has to balance efficiency against equity, costs against benefits for the long run. Even if an economy is rich enough to expend a dollop billions on an investment and can then write it off to a mere dollar on its books, the success, or failure, of the undertaking can still be judged by people's voting, with their feet, to make use of it or not. Hong Kong's investment-to-be into its West Kowloon Cultural District is a case in point. To be, or not to be, a white elephant, that is the question, foremost.
Positioning the West Kowloon Cultural District is a 6-page long paper to strategize for the said endeavor. The particulars peculiar to one such a project aside, it showcases a thinking process on, from delimiting the relevant big picture down to discerning the finer details, from laying the critical success factors to nominating the doable elements.
We have working experiences within and without the public sector in various capacities for numerous undertakings across continents. We know how governments work. More importantly, we have copious practical suggestions on how governments should work.
If you are a Non Government Organization, one constant challenge you are facing is that whenever/whatever you enact, “it” better be sustainable, in the long haul, just as well. How could you do more with little (or even) no more?
Some hundreds of millions or so of a major currency, is (not) a lot: a lot when being asked as hand-outs year in year out; but not a lot when being trickled down as water, flour, . . . , and empty talks, or the likes, as emergency aids and/or otherwise, to the billions of people in need.
For your organization to earn your keep, to be in a position to command more, in resources, respect, and following, you would, at the least, have to entrench yourself as a trusted, clean, and able institution. If not, you would soon need to gasp to stay relevant.
How do you solve the problem like “third world”? In the long run, a better solution to let people to help themselves in the “third” world is to explore what they have that are of export quality which have high export potential, help them to actualize the potential and to secure better terms of trade for them. In tandem, trusted, clean and able national organizations need to be instituted and fortified; sagacious concentration of the initial gains into high impact high return investments need to be plowed, so as to amplify the good for sustainable long term (more) even (to people) distributions. But, what and how in particular?
Suppose your are a certain international relief organization; the closer particulars for you to inspire and perspire on: what, in particular, “more focused and ambitious approach” can be taken to build capacities, to respond quickly when disasters strike, to augment health cares, and to better advocate and brand your movement?
Kill all the birds with one same stone? Let us think about it.
