Un/Making CSC
Ownership

Ownership

While localization is a trending buzzword and ‘ownership’ a longstanding byword, concrete manifestations of ownership development.

Bearing fruits and a sense of ownership. This tree, which is bearing fruits and money, represents how, if properly managed, donor funded projects can bring results which include financial stability and a sense of ownership in people. As a community we ensured that we not only got the help that was offered, we went ahead to invest by getting into small scale business, including goats, so that our programmes would have a continuous source of funding. So much so that even years after the project had completed, our small businesses are running and the goats have multiplied and been shared, so our community programmes are independent financially. The money drawn at the base of tree were the investments that the community members planted from other projects. The tree represents the businesses that are now established now bearing money-fruits.
Bearing fruits and a sense of ownership.
A digital photograph of 3 cups and 2 beads. A metaphor to represent the idea that sustainable development is like boreholes. The two beads represent the organisation which supported the community by drilling boreholes. The cups are representing the boreholes which were drilled around the community. Today people are not struggling to access water, even now that the organisation is no longer working in that community. This is what sustainable development is.
Sustainable development is like boreholes.
Digital photograph of sharpies and two pegs; a material metaphor to represent the idea that donors are like bridges.
Donors are like bridges. They are some kind of structures who can fill the gap.
Digital photograph of a drawing of a bicycle; a metaphor for development projects.
Development projects are like bicycles.