A Thought

It’s easy to draw a pretty picture. It’s also easy to feel that this beautiful, complete picture can be attained in reality.

But it’s NOT. Only by doing it, one knows how not easy it is, and why, only in the context of where s/he works. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a manual guide of “What to do to avoid problems and mistakes in development projects”? Well, such a manual would either be not very useful because of its over-generalization that overlooks diverse conditionality, or be non-existent.

Once in the workshop, said Robert Chambers, “this is the best manual for development field workers…” showing one book. He opened the first page of the book. It was blank. So as the second, third…. pages, and the rest of the book.