Grassroots-led Development: Dr. Solava Ibrahim by ROCKING OUR PRIORS published on 2017-03-07T18:30:55Z Drawing on a decade of research in Egypt and West Africa, Dr. Solava Ibrahim proposes 3 conditions for effective grassroots interventions: - Concientisation: a shift in cognitive frames; individuals question structural inequalities; - Conciliation: people recognise shared interests; develop networks and a communal vision. - Collaboration: state-society synergies. In this podcast, I ask: Can NGOs actually fulfil these conditions at scale? Are NGOs even necessary? Why not just improve state capacities? Is this agenda compatible with a donor focus on value for money? Full paper here, published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19452829.2016.1270918 You can read more about Dr Ibrahim's work here: http://www.devstudies.cam.ac.uk/people/solavaibrahim The image is from Tostan, one of the NGOs we discuss: http://tostan.org/