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Country concepts and the rational actor trap : limitations to strategic management of international NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334861
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New markets for local experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334891
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Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327904
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331378
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"Wir Beniner sind keine Deutschen" - Zur soziokulturellen Problematik der Zusammenarbeit mit Partnerfachkräften in Benin
Kohnert, Dirk; Preuß, Hans-Joachim A. - In: gtz-info (1989) 6, pp. 20-21
Häufig wird erst bei der Schlußevaluierung von TZ-Projekten erkannt, daß das Nichterreichen von Teilzielen oder gar das Scheitern des gesamten Projektes auf die mangelnde Berücksichtigung sozialer und soziokultureller Voraussetzungen zurückzuführen sind. Es reicht nicht aus, technische,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331406
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A critique of the socio-cultural approach to development planning
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 17 (1982) 6, pp. 296-301
Recent reflections on development policy have tried to eliminate the weak points in the economically oriented development theories which have dominated development planning up to now, and the traditional modernisation theories complementary to them. The propagation of strategies geared towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554797
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"Wir Beniner sind keine Deutschen" : zur soziokulturellen Problematik der Zusammenarbeit mit Partnerfachkräften in Benin
Kohnert, Dirk; Preuß, Hans-Joachim A. - 1989
Häufig wird erst bei der Schlußevaluierung von TZ-Projekten erkannt, daß das Nichterreichen von Teilzielen oder gar das Scheitern des gesamten Projektes auf die mangelnde Berücksichtigung sozialer und soziokultureller Voraussetzungen zurückzuführen sind. Es reicht nicht aus, technische,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335253
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293531
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the problem of rural social structures recently. Up to now it was considered … and rural social spaces in Northern Nigeria. Applied to the results an empirical investigation of four Nupe villages in … Northern Nigeria in 1976, the proposed model reveals the early stages of a rural capitalist development, notably among rice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327899
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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 13 (1978) 3, pp. 269-286
growth and independence during the past two decades in Northern Nigeria, compared with other parts of Nigeria. …Les entrepreneurs et les seigneurs de terre du Nigeria du nord dans leurs lutte pour le pouvoir politique: Sur l … élevé de protection à la fois contre le capital commerçant du Nigeria du Sud plus performant et des puissantes compagnies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327900