Development Cooperation Handbook/Defining Development/Development Mantras

Development Mantras by Vrinda Dar and Stefano De Santis /Mantra 1/. Choose Development Good governance fosters a healthy communication climate A healthy communication climate generates trust; Trust generates cooperation; Cooperation generates opportunities; And availing opportunities generates development; This is the virtuous circle of empowering governance. /Mantra 2/ Capitalise Development Empowered governance fosters healthy competition; Healthy competition enables quality offer; Quality offer meets global demand; Meeting global demand generates wealth; Wealth invested renews community capital; This is the virtuous circle of solidarity and competition /Mantra 3/ Share Development When solidarity and competition feed into each other; The local and the global enable each other; Governmental authority is at the service of the community; And economic growth becomes a resource for preservation; Then values and resources are transmitted to future generations; This is the path of sustained development Back to the ⇒Table of Content