Are CDCs paying too little attention to organization and management issues?
The whole CDC industry doesn’t pay enough attention. The industry needs to step back and focus less on teaching the technical aspects of development and more on systems and operational issues. That would help support the maturing of the CDC industry and improved performance. At ECI, we had gone from being a pretty small organization to putting together a critical mass for management in the early 1990s. We had capable people running the construction area. We had beefed up our accounting. We had strong people overseeing the human investment work and financial management. We were doing a credible job of bringing in the necessary human resources. We had talented board people we could rely on. Then we went from having a critical mass of staff competency to not having it just like that. It would have been nice to think there were funders and intermediaries who could have helped us work things through to encourage peer-to-peer review and discussion. That would have helped. What else could hav
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