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Navigating French Development: Challenges and Future Directions in Social Assessment Strategies

This conference paper reviews the progress and challenges of social assessments (CSA) in the French development context. It discusses the lack of compulsory social assessments in project cycles and a harmonization process aimed at revitalizing the French system. Key issues highlighted include capacity gaps, the evolving relationship between foreign affairs and development agencies, and the risks of policy urgency overshadowing thorough assessments. Learning from experiences in São Tomé, the paper emphasizes the necessity of integrating regional social analyses to ensure genuine local ownership and effective implementation of development projects.

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Navigating French Development: Challenges and Future Directions in Social Assessment Strategies

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  1. CSA: an Unauthorized French View François GAULME AFD-Direction de la Stratégie PRS/CMO Washington CSA Conference . 18/05/2006

  2. I. Minding the French context: Progress and Some Road Ahead • No compulsory social assesment yet into the project cycle. • Harmonisation process bringing fresh air into the French system. • At every level, an obvious capacity gap (and math elitism). • A changing relationship between Foreign Affairs-DGCID and AFD. On the whole, France beingat the crossroads.

  3. Talleyrand vs Jefferson: cautious social behaviour against rational politics. • The Rouch and Balandier era: CSA at the time of late colonialism. • The modern way: no more than acccepted wisdom among practitioners and technical excellence mixed with insiders’ information for producing a CSA by proxy.

  4. II. Learning from experience:The Case with Sao Tome • Reform in the 90s: political succes vs social and economic shortcomings. • Two deceptive programmes: agriculture and micro-credit. • Behind limits in outcomes, a deep lack of CSA as a preliminary stage for action. • Shortness in warning: the costs and capacity issue.

  5. III. Coping with Risk: A Few Points • Do it on an early stage…yes, but what early stage, while a new holistic approach would overlap with former sectorial/technical projects templates (cotton in Afghanistan, ASS)? • The time constraint: urgency of policy decision vs CSA pace and methods (introducing VAT in Niger). • The organisational issue: the delicate matter of development mingling with diplomacy. • Collecting and publishing: never miss the dark side of the force (the informal, the unspoken, secrecy).

  6. Conclusion • CSA being paramount. • Has to be completed by a Regional Social Analysis (RSA). • In worst cases, huge constraints again as to carry on or implement on time. • No prospect for C/ RSA outside including genuine local ownership, which means both willingness and capacity.

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