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Powerpoint Redesign Example by Dr. Amy Walsh (AFTER)
- 1. The Flip Side of Foreign Aid NGOs, the developing world, and the philanthropy industrial complex Amy Walsh International Emergency Medicine Fellow August 16, 2012
- 2. How I became jaded…
- 3. Objectives • Recognize the dire results of unintended consequences and poor planning • Discuss how our stereotypes of the developing world color our evaluation of their need for our help • Recognize that US, UN, and large NGO policies are designed with self-interest and selfpreservation in mind. • Discuss how we can improve our provision of international health care and international development assistance
Editor's Notes
- Discuss disclaimers
- This primarily focuses on humanitarian disasters, though I think many points can be extrapolated to other projects
- However, people usually do things for good reasons, and understanding those reasons is often where development projects fall apart
- Story of Christian aid groups buying people out of slavery, drove up price of slaves led to more people being kidnappedEthiopia: Localized famine (caused by politics) brought in food aid, gov’t used aid to feed armies who displaced and enslaved target population groupCambodia: lived in camps in Thailand could cross the borders to wreak havocRwanda: genocidaires continue to terrorize, rape today