Themes

HIV/AIDS project in Ghana

The HIV/AIDS project in Ghana was initially funded by a Catholic aid agency to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infe... read more

Inter-relationships

The project failed to grasp the inter-relationships necessary to run a successful micro-credit scheme, which spilled over to other aspects of the p... read more

Perspectives

In workshops I’ve run, participants identified several ways of seeing the Ghana project and discussed how these perspectives shed light on what is... read more

Boundaries

When explored more deeply, poor assessments of boundary issues were a major contributor to the problems the project encountered. Entrenched values... read more

Jacob Boersema

Jacob Boersema is a freelance journalist and a PhD student in Development Studies at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. His PhD is on white Afrikaner identity in postapartheid South Africa. He holds Master degrees in History from the University of Amsterdam and Geography from Utrecht University.