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November 30, 2009

I don't have to...I live there

I did watch the video and I am still not impressed. It is easy to say we will train people and give them leadership all within the existing funds available. It is much harder to state the success of a project once its lifespan is completed. The one pediatrician you showed on the video is not even a Masotho. The fact of the matter is the government will be unwilling to compensate Basotho doctors and nurses at a complimentary rate that can challenge compensation in England and South Africa. It is useless to carry out projects such as this when the government has no history of sustaining such initiatives. BU must also look at the institutional history of Lesotho in these repsects and see that another project, that of Village Health Care Workers, has also come to nothing as there is no real government support or will. This training being provided does not secure that these same people will not go outside to seek a better life for themselves and their families once they reach some level of qualification. All the evidence would point to this (just look at the institutional history of skills acquistion through projects and resultant retention in the public or provate work force in Lesotho). Remember this is the same government which supported Robert Mugabe's second election result as legitimate and of which covered up a substantial corruption case (perhaps resulting in the murder of a Dutch volunteer) revolving around the Bill Clinton Fund and the current Minister of Health. One could make the point that these details do not get at the systemic matters of the issue but this is also what the government would be happy for one to follow so they could continue spewing pro-poor policies in the face of elite building within their own party.

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