http://www.owen.org/blog/106 Thoughts from Owen in Africa Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:09:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.owen.org/blog/106/comment-page-1#comment-554 jra’s thoughts › HQ folks: Don’t Do This Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:57:10 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/106#comment-554 [...] De-escalating the paperwork in development [...] [...] De-escalating the paperwork in development [...]

]]> http://www.owen.org/blog/106/comment-page-1#comment-548 humanitarian.info » Kill Your Reports Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:55:53 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/106#comment-548 [...] Owen: It seems to me that we must de-escalate the amount of paperwork involved in international development. There has to be some record-keeping to enable us to account to the people whose money we are spending.  But the bureaucracy involved in designing and getting funding for projects, for hiring people, and for monitoring and reporting, has become an industry in itself. [...] [...] Owen: It seems to me that we must de-escalate the amount of paperwork involved in international development. There has to be some record-keeping to enable us to account to the people whose money we are spending.  But the bureaucracy involved in designing and getting funding for projects, for hiring people, and for monitoring and reporting, has become an industry in itself. [...]

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