A traumatized nation cries for a strengthened development intervention sectorIndeed, continuous and rigorous self-scrutiny is called for, if development agencies will pressure out the sustainable impact from a daunting web of prohibitive obstacles. While the development intervention global system whirrs all year round, therefore, and amid such maddening bureaucratic gridlock, how damning it is, that there is ever so negligible movement, in terms of the salient human development vectors. A restless dissatisfaction with token advances is therefore quite in sync with the depth of interventionist leadership that Nigeria’s hydra-headed human development issues call for. This is where one finds a powerful attraction to the whole drive towards strengthening leadership and systems across the nation’s beleaguered development agencies. Now, this is sans any sanctimonious intent to absolve the philanthropy and development sector of any flaws.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2020 03:45 UTC