The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.
The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
The desire for a democratic political system does not by itself create the capacity for establishing one.
Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
Africa does not need more exhortations. She needs support in strengthening her structures. She needs concrete resources with which to pursue her course of action.
If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.
It takes time to develop a system of law and order …. In 1960, when the Congo got its independence, we had less than ten college graduates.
I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
Democratic societies with established institutions must help those societies that do not yet have established institutions.
Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.
Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
It will be a comprehensive response. The ID issue is one of them. It will make sure that Home Affairs has the capacity to reach people and to make sure that the people themselves know that they have got to get these documents and where to go to get them.
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.
Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
