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 E. van Dam

Jan E van Dam is lange tijd, na zijn promotie in de natuurkunde, werkzaam geweest bij het ministerie van OCW op het terrein van het wetenschapsbeleid (tot 2007). Heeft zich daar onder meer bezig gehouden met ontwikkelingssamenwerking.