RFI comparing tactical COIN and Asset Based Community Development

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especially in Canada where they've become increasingly ATIP-able. Indeed, they're often directed by higher-ups not to (as the Colvin affair on Afghan detainees highlighted).

The development community is also pretty bad at this, despite all the attention paid to monitoring and evaluation.

Tell me.
Just finishing up a project for the CIDA ATF. They are enormously paranoid about ATIP. That aside, they appear in may ways to be structurally unable to hear frank critique, even when framed in support of the mission, from within their own organization.

Guess this is predictable. It seems to be an uncomfortably large wart on a junior ministry running a high risk venture that is subject to all sorts of meddling in a complex environment within a traditional bureaucratic structure that is riddled with perverse incentives under a deeply short-sighted political microscope.


I've actually found the Canadian Forces to be a far more pleasant place to work.