developmentia

Sultana Kamal, head of Aino Salish Kendro, a hyper selective human rights ngo

I saw the fight of the right as I passed her N-GO

I smelt the smog of confounding developmentshire

She was The Guardian (of the liberation narrative)

As she deceived you I watched you and made up new lines

My, my, my, Sultana

Why, why, why, Sultana

I could see that that game was no good for me

But you were lost like a slave that no one could free

That dreadful time, when she crossed that red line, she was stating

That human rights were only for people like her

She blea-ted whiteous indignation

We felt the pulse of the truth and then she lied some more

My, my, my Sultana

Why, why, why Sultana

So before they come to break down the door

I tell you Sultana you’re a civilisational flaw

She blea-ted whiteous indignation

We felt the pulse of the truth and then she lied some more

My, my, my, Sultana

Why, why, why, Sultana

So before they come to break down the door

Retraction Sultana we just will not take any more

Retire Sultana we just will not take any more

Neo-con think tank makes a call for brown sahibs. without irony at all.

Wanted for questioning concerning their roles in creating the conditions for, covering up and carrying out a massacre of unarmed protesters from 245am Monday 6th May 2013 in the Motijheel business district of Dhaka Bangladesh. This terrible event occurred around the Water Lilly monument commemorating a previous massacre committed by the Pakistan army in 1971.

Regenerate

The London Borough of Newham vision document that sings of resilience, 78 times.

http://www.newham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/835AAB4A-E651-4497-AAD8-D40D4A9934AB/0/Whyweneedawelfarestatethatbuildsresilience.pdf

The Savar Sun. Inspired by the Prime Minister’s interview with CNN

Here the University displaces the people of the Carpenter’s Estate to build a campus in Newham, and recruits researchers to cover them in case studies.

Its all change at Third Text, as it succumbs to epistemic injustice of mistrustees, neoliberal academia and the resignation of its editorial board following the ousting of Founding Editor Rasheed Araeen, as featured in a previous representation of developmentia.

Ah those poor industrious, resilient NGO busy reducing (and depoliticising) disaster in Bangladesh

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Development work interrupted

Meanwhile, the ongoing political turmoil is taking its toll on development work.

“Strikes do delay the implementation of activities we funded. For instance, cash-based transfers are not implemented during strikes. And usually INGOs [international NGOs] and UN partners are not able to use their vehicles on those days, which means their programmes come to a halt, and monitoring cannot be done,” said Olivier Brouant, head of office of the European Commission’s humanitarian arm (ECHO) in Dhaka.

ECHO is one the largest donors in Bangladesh, providing 30.65 million euros to address humanitarian needs in 2012 and 2013, and 3.65 million euros for disaster risk reduction projects in 2013 and 2014.

To cope with the strikes, Plan International in Bangladesh has changed its working pattern.

“We have shifted some of our event-based activities to the weekends, and to make up working days lost in strikes for the staff who still cannot come to the office on a hartal (local word for strike) day, they are now working on weekends or making up time by working late,” Elena Ahmed, deputy country director for Plan International in Bangladesh.

According to Gareth Price-Jones, country director for Oxfam, the situation is manageable. But he added: “We are worried for the future, though, and with other NGOs and the UN, we are reminding all actors of the protected status of humanitarian work under international law, which should enable us to keep working even if the situation worsens.”

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