Saturday, November 26, 2005

Rebuilding Woes

A Washington Post article (see link, above) recently slammed rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan for general failure and incompetence. USAID and the prime contractor, Louis Berger, took the brunt of it.

Getting anything done here is a tough proposition - particularly when forced to rely upon local labor in the name of "capacity building". That's aid jargon for "training" and after 25 years of war, training and mentoring is rightly a part of the reconstruction process. But it's also time consuming. And when there is little oversight, well, the results are predictable.

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