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

Sérgio Calundungo

Sérgio Calundungo is director of ADRA – Acção para o Desenvolvimento Rural e Ambiente (Action for Rural Development and the Environment) – a large NGO in Angola. He has a degree in pedagogy from Agostinho Neto University in Luanda, and a postgraduate degree in development and international cooperation from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Calundungo has 16 years’ experience in the development sector and before joining ADRA in 2007 was country director for Intermón Oxfam. ADRA receives funding from ICCO, NIZA/Actionaid, Oxfam and British Petroleum. http://www.adra-angola.org