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Whose Reality Is It?

27 Jun 2020

An oft-made fallacy in development interventions is the conviction that we have ‘engaged’ with communities and ‘understand’ their needs.

No! This does not imply that we are purporting a falsehood, rather, that our ‘engagement’ and ‘understanding’ could be colored by our meanings, definitions and experiences — leaving a gap between what we think is, and what really is!