PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Endnotes Successful networking! (or: The real impact of a consultant)

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 Endnotes Successful networking! (or: The real impact of a consultant) Jennifer McCracken The success of communication in rural Amazing but true. If you have any silly stories or development undoubtedly depends on the type of jokes which you feel deserve to be sent information to be communicated. If it is worldwide, please send them to me for inclusion interesting/relevant/worthwhile, it will be passed in this space. on more readily. Or if it is amusing!. · Jennifer McCracken On the last evening of an RRA consultancy trip to Java back in 1987, I was sitting with a group of local FSR researchers in a lakeside restaurant, enjoying the food and drink. The accompanying stories and jokes became sillier and sillier and a joke I told went down well: There were three rural development experts, each of whom was given an assignment which entailed them trudging for many days across the Sahara. They were allowed to take with them one thing to help them in the heat. "Well", said the first expert, "I would like a solar powered fan to cool me as I walk". The second expert thought for a moment and said, "I would ...