Exploitation of Poor Communities in Sierra Leone : False Promises in Reconstruction and Development
Exploitation of poor villagers by fraudulent development practitioners is a startlingly common occurrence in postwar Sierra Leone. Research conducted by the World Bank's justice for the poor and understanding processes of change in local gover...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/01/10743996/exploitation-poor-communities-sierra-leone-false-promises-reconstruction-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18021 |
| Summary: | Exploitation of poor villagers by
fraudulent development practitioners is a startlingly common
occurrence in postwar Sierra Leone. Research conducted by
the World Bank's justice for the poor and understanding
processes of change in local governance project found that
virtually every rural community visited by the research team
could recount an experience (and often several) in which
individuals or organizations promised to deliver development
projects and other benefits, collected money from community
members under the guise of registration fees or beneficiary
contributions, and then disappeared. Some cases may have
been legitimate projects that were never realized for one
reason or another or the visitors were misunderstood to be
making promises that they never intended to make. At the
extreme, organizations might exist simply to write proposals
and receive funds without ever delivering any benefits, and
may need a community presence to do so. |
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