I did review your page because this topic is an area of interest for me as a person involved in international development and encouraging counterparts in Africa to focus on value added activities in project development and to plan in a way that funds are allocated from bottom up not up-down. For example a community polytechnic should seek funding for loans to students to attend the polytechnic and should hold the teachers accoutable -ensure that the services delivered as worthwhile since they have to pay back the loan after training.
In contrast - the community we are working with is seeking funding for teacher's salaries and I find this unacceptable and a leading cause for project failures. People in developing countries have to learn to incoporate accountability at all levels of their operations and looking for value added (even as far as -every end of the day of work) shoule be the way to go forward.
Submitted by Christine Lwanga at- xtinelwanga@accesscomm.ca (Canada)