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

Jan Pronk

Jan Pronk, former Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation, is currently professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Between 2004 and 2006 Jan Pronk was the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Sudan, where he led the UN peacekeeping operation.