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What additional impact or benefits can be achieved by working with international businesses, and/or with the government of the countries we operate in? (should we at least make links with local government, and what is the best way to do this?)

MClargo

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Re: Linking with governments and NGOs
Posted: 12 Nov 06 8:57 PM

Cornell Jackson replied: It all depends on the capabilities and characteristics of the local governments and international businesses in your area. They can totally frustrate any good you can do or they can greatly enhance the good you are doing. You will have to make a case by case determination on this. I remember when I was on a United Methodist mission team helping to build a vocational training school in Mozambique we were visited by a corrupt and drunk government building inspector trying to extract a large bribe from us. The fact that our local project manager was a member of Frelimo, the governing party, meant that we did not have to worry about that inspector ever again.

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