Building social capital for effective citizen and state institutions; Promotion of dialogue, public enlightenment, cultural renaissance, tradition, and renewal Local Governance and Development

1. Priming The Role Of Volunteers BT Costantinos, PhD [email_address] , www.costantinos.net Presented to the VSO Ethiopia – In country training for new intakes, Addis Ababa, Feb 8, 2008 Leadership Solutions to Stem the Crises in Human Development

2. Flash points and areas of cooperation for Peace & Development in the Greater Horn Ethiopia Sudan Democratic Republic of Congo Uganda Somalia Somaliland Kenya Tanzania Sudan

7. Ethiopia – Domestic resources for development

8. Ethiopia: aid commitment

9. Ethiopia: aid disbursement

11. Total resources for development

13. Cultural barriers to Human Development and Leadership tenets to stem the tide Poverty Moving on….

18. “ Volunteerism and LEADERSHIP” “ To become a centre of influence holding people together is a grave matter and fraught with great responsibility. It requires greatness of spirit, consistency and strength. Therefore let them who wishes to gather others about him ask himself whether they are equal to the undertaking” I Ching , or Chinese Book of Changes , ...

19. Consciousness precedes being Vaclav Havel Vaclav Havel, the Czechoslovakian philosopher and statesman, asserts that "Matter... is not the fundamental factor in human history... Consciousness is. Human awareness is... Those are the deep sources of freedom and power with which people have been able to move boulders and create change by treating institutional and economic realities as absolute constraints, but rather recognises that we "co-create the world" Thus, while we are indeed acted upon, we are also free to act; leadership lies in the complex interaction between the two.

22. THE RIGHTS BASED APPROACH

28. We know there exist enormous obstinacies to Ethiopia’s development within the life of this generation, nevertheless a skilled and committed citizenry, think tanks and leadership can mitigate such state of affairs and project the nation to the 21 st century with the attendant benefits that would accrue to the citizens from its rich resources and vibrant cultures. Conclusion Here is where volunteer’s LEADERSHIP – the shared values, vision and resources of community, the demanding common tasks that build a community and the momentum they generate for radical citizen’s participation that creates the realism of what it means to be human: the means, shared values, vision and resources for humanity.

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