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Can technology change the existing culture? Case study on Bangladesh’s public sector

Pages 152-164 | Received 14 Nov 2016, Accepted 06 Sep 2017, Published online: 12 Jan 2018
 

ABSTRACT

This article highlights the challenges development aid donors can face in Bangladesh’s post-colonial culture, as well as substantiating how lack of quality control in an aid project can influence local values, beliefs, and subjective experiences. The article also suggests that improving quality control, such as through monitoring and evaluation (M&E), can generate greater impact of development aid resources.

Cet article met l’accent sur les difficultés auxquelles les donateurs d’aide au développement peuvent être confrontés dans la culture postcoloniale au Bangladesh. Il établit aussi comment l’absence de contrôle de qualité dans un projet d’aide peut influencer les valeurs, les croyances et expériences subjectives locales. Enfin l’article suggère que l’amélioration du contrôle de qualité, notamment à travers le suivi et l’évaluation (S&E), peut générer un impact plus important des ressources d’aide au développement.

Este artículo destaca los retos que los donantes de ayuda para el desarrollo pueden enfrentar en la cultura poscolonial de Bangladesh, además de fundamentar cómo la falta de control de calidad en un proyecto de ayuda puede influir en los valores, las creencias y las experiencias subjetivas locales. El artículo también sugiere que mejorar el control de calidad, como mediante la supervisión y la evaluación (M & E), puede generar un mayor impacto de los recursos de ayuda al desarrollo.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Matt Husain is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.

Sebastian Kolesar is a member of the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.

Additional information

Funding

This fieldwork was funded by Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Fund (grant number H12-00262) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Social Science Research Fund (grant number F14-00515).

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