How development happens: Safe and sustainable energy, community development projects, and implementation challenges in Timor-Leste

IF 0.7 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY
SARA NINER, JOTHAM LAY, NARELLE WARREN, MICHAEL O'CONNELL, DANIEL EDGINGTON-MITCHELL
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Abstract

This article describes how seed funding from one major Australian University, designed to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations among academics, led to the implementation of a safe and sustainable energy supply at a community development project in remote Timor-Leste. This article reflects on the process, the results, and insights developed during the project primarily from the point of view of the academics. A participatory process of co-design was virtually impossible to implement due to time and resource constraints that barely allowed genuine collaboration between academics. The consequent nurturing of a social relationship between partners across borders, which would have allowed a genuine process of co-design, was therefore not possible. Misunderstandings around the local context, tensions in understandings of timelines, and competing priorities all provided additional barriers to timely implementation of the development project. The final conclusion is that even with the best of intentions, if resource constraints do not allow the time and space to develop collaborative social relations and prioritize “process over product,” then genuine partnerships and participatory development have little chance of flourishing.

发展是如何发生的:东帝汶的安全和可持续能源、社区发展计划和执行挑战
这篇文章描述了来自澳大利亚一所主要大学的种子基金如何在东帝汶偏远地区的一个社区发展项目中实现了安全和可持续的能源供应。该基金旨在鼓励学术界之间的跨学科合作。本文主要从学术界的角度反映了项目期间的过程、结果和见解。由于时间和资源的限制,几乎不允许学术界之间进行真正的合作,共同设计的参与性过程实际上是不可能实施的。因此,跨境合作伙伴之间的社会关系的培养是不可能的,这将允许一个真正的共同设计过程。对当地环境的误解,对时间线的理解的紧张,以及竞争的优先级都为及时实施开发项目提供了额外的障碍。最后的结论是,即使有最好的意图,如果资源限制不允许时间和空间来发展协作的社会关系,优先考虑“过程而不是产品”,那么真正的伙伴关系和参与式发展几乎没有机会蓬勃发展。
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