The arena of development is marked as the essential evolution of humankind. Makuwira (2014) affirms that development shapes the world with benefits for human’s well-being and ensure social equality. However, Escobar (1995) claims development becomes effective tool of the hegemonic regimes to serve economic and political purposes. Then, it causes damages of well-beings, impoverishment, social evils, corruptions, and environment destruction, etc. (Costanza et al., 2014). This concept is relevant to failures, disappointment, crime, or delusion (Sachs, 2009). Thus, its meaning is transformed and confronts to plenty of arguments.
In the case of CWD, a great number of its staff and leadership believe that development benefits people. In their way, development means earning projects or run fundraising activities to serve women in community. It is reason why CWD only focus on the advantages of information to provide for women. On the other hand, they also believe that what they implement are all good for women. It also means that some project budgets are partly spent for administration and management while lack of budget to implement activities to serve women and communities.
In development discourse, the term of governance plays crucial role to ensure social function on right track. According to (Battersby, 2017),development discourse also is defined as bureaucratic processes and formal executive. World Bank also describes this term in correlation with legitimate rules, political stability, accountability, corruption control, voices of democracy and participation in upstream decision- making process. Reported by Freedom House (2018), in the trend of global democracy crisis, degradation of political rights and civil liberties then are highlighted over the span of ten years until 2017.
In practices, CWD is first designed as non-business unit with revenues. This unity consists of 2 distinguish parts of hospitality services for VWU’s events; social programs to serve women in community. In beginning, CWD was governmental invested for the great construction of its building. As affirmed by its policy, CWD promised to use a part of its benefits for social programs. However, until now, this organization declares no benefits in its process of operation, all budgets for social programs are depends on international sponsorship and recently small enterprises and philanthropists. That challenges the social programs to ensure its sustainability and innovation in competition with other organizations in network.
My question is raised about ‘transparency’ in implementing policies of CWD that ensure that community benefit from their operation, and preventing economic purposes under the name of development projects.
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