Comments on BACK TO BASICS: It should have come before the Muthaqadhim Party!

Exactly, Muna. We would be building their capacit...

2007-12-28T02:54:00.000+05:00

Exactly, Muna. We would be building their capacity and their ability to plan and implement development activities on their own. It is the best way that we could give ownership to the people. Its simple logic.

But the govt. likes to make our communities dependant on them so that when its time for elections they can always buy votes by promising them things that never materialize.

what if the money spent on consultants were given ...

2007-12-27T14:43:00.000+05:00

what if the money spent on consultants were given to the people and asked them to develop the system on their own. the latest in thing is get some dhonmeehaku and spent million of dollars for him to tell what we need and what we already know.. the dhonmeeha in return ask the locals and reproduce it and get all the money!

Two or three years ago, ADB had committed a huge s...

2007-12-27T14:00:00.000+05:00

Two or three years ago, ADB had committed a huge some of money for technical assistance in developing a transportation master plan. The TA failed because, as I heard from a reliable source from within the Min of Transport, " it was not put together cohesively and comprehensively and did not include a lot of needs expressed by the stakeholders ... in short the consultants were not competent enough to take up such a tast as to do a masterplan for a large sector as that of transportation ..."

There is now talk of a second TA and consequently a second round of consultants coming in for second round of money just to develop a plan. A waste in my opinion. All that money could effectively be used to pilot a good transportaion system in one of the atolls at least.