Strategy
Effective organizations can be compared to a modern vehicle – it has many parts, some moving and others static. Yet, all parts have been put together in a system, to deliver a certain: amount of horse-power, comfort, specific niche like ‘4×4′ off road, town runner, or heavy goods carrier. Every part of a vehicles’ system has a role it plays in making the vehicle meet its niche-standard.
Effective strategy, and note the word EFFECTIVE, is the art of defining the vehicle, the value the vehicle brings to the buyer, and assembling all its moving and static parts, to meet the demand of the buyer.
Strategy is a fascinating art, whose success depends on how EFFECTIVENESS is delivered in organizations
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Developments’ forgotten child – the Community Based Organization
If you ask for a list of organizations implementing development programs, effective or not at that, I suspect that you will get something like: INGO, native Civil Society Organization (CSO) in my context the East Africa Civil Society Organization (EACSO), consulting firms primarily American, Universities especially American & British, and the government. It is very… Continue reading
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The INGO crisis of identity
A few weeks back, I blogged about the native East Africa Civil Society Organisation (EACSO) cloning the INGO. If the INGO has a clone in the EACSO, in effect a replica entity occupying the same space, what is the role of the INGO on the development landscape in East Africa? Amidst this role/brand confusion, does the… Continue reading
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The future of development!
‘More of the same’ will not be enough – ODI.org I am writing from remote East-Africa, afar from decisions that will determine the fate of the poor people I serve in my day job, that of my kin, and other poor people in East-Africa. I can’t help asking what the future holds for international development.… Continue reading
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Why has the East Africa Civil Society Organisation cloned the INGO?
My blog last week asked whether the East Africa Civil Society Organisation (EACSO) is a recycled INGO – the blog raised interesting comments both on and offline. https://gabazira.com/2015/01/21/local-cso-recycled-ingo/ Given all that has been said and written on the subject, it must be safe to assume that the EACSO is indeed a clone of the INGO.… Continue reading
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Effective poverty-eradication in Luuka, Uganda – is the ‘deve-preneur’ model the answer?
Luuka district is found in the Eastern Uganda Busoga sub-region, located approximately 33 KM by road, north-west of Iganga the nearest largest town and approximately 44 KM by road, north of Jinja the largest city in the sub-region. Luuka has a population of 241,453 (Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) 2014 – Census) an 85% increase… Continue reading
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Civil society space restriction – is it masking civil society ineffectiveness?
In December 2014, i blogged about a meeting organised by a leading INGO https://gabazira.com/2014/12/18/pitfalls-to-civ-society-partnership-wake-up-ingo/, at which variants of an ‘effective national civil society organisation’ and how it can best organise were discussed. Looking back at some of the civil society events in 2014, it dawned on me that meetings like the above that delve on what… Continue reading
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The enigma of effective development!
Because I work in the international development sector, I’m ever conscious of the lack of bottom line economics that our private sector peers work with i.e. International development doesn’t work for profit and is normally not judged by what it brings to the bottom line ($). To the contrary, like government, international development effectiveness has… Continue reading
About Me
Apollo B. Gabazira is an Ugandan OD. junkie fascinated by matters that render organisations/individuals effective or not. He blogs on effective leadership and management. He is a devoted green-farmer and breeds the Ayrshire cow at Nakabugu, Luuka district, Uganda. Apollo is quite effective at what he chooses to do.
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