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Decolonising Project Management in the Aid Sector

At the ALNAP 32nd Annual Meeting, Arbie Baguios from ActionAid UK shares his story  from an aid project in Ethiopia which led him to think about how to follow through with proclaimed ideals of localisation and shifting power by decolonising project management.

The economist Daniel Honig studied 14,000 aid projects, and found that they were more successful when implementation and decision-making were delegated more to local staff.

He says project success relies on local staff’s “freedom to navigate by judgement, making use of…local, contextually bound information that is difficult to include” in a report or an email to headquarters.

Given this, perhaps it’s also time we see more local and national staff at Northern headquarters as decision-makers.