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

Joost Nelen

Organisation: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Mali
Website: Website SNV

Agronomist, is adviser Agriculture West-Africa for SNV. Expertise in rural economic development and natural resource management. He resides in Bamako, Mali. Currently doing action-research on food security and land tenure mechanisms in Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana and Niger.