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Development agencies actually hire lots of local people. for USAID/State Department, they're called FSNs, and its pretty easy to find stories about them and th
by thrden 6y ago
Development agencies actually hire lots of local people. for USAID/State Department, they're called FSNs, and its pretty easy to find stories about them and the work that they do. According to one Document I found around 55k/75k state department employees were Foreign Nationals (aka local hires). [1] Foreign nationals don't run these agencies because these agencies are responsible to their respective governments and have missions and goals that extend beyond simple development. This post seems incredibly uninformed given that the extent of their research seems to be looking at the citation of the photographs/videos.
[1] https://diplopundit.net/2017/05/08/statedeptusaid-staffing-cut-and-attrition-a-look-at-real-numbers-and-projected-attrition/ https://diplopundit.net/2017/05/08/statedeptusaid-staffing-c...
- filleduchaos 6y ago> Development agencies actually hire lots of local people. "Aid agencies typically hire local staff only for low- and mid-level positions. That’s an important story, but a different one." - from TFA
- WalterSear 6y ago> In the case of photography, there’s simply no good excuse. Every country has photographers able to produce excellent work… and they’ll charge less than a globe-trotting Westerner. Why does the aid industry give so many assignments to Westerners? I wager that the author doesn't know very much about professional photography.
- filleduchaos 6y agoIs your knowledge of professional photography that there are no professional photographers in non-Western countries?
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- WalterSear 6y agoIs your knowledge of 4 year creative professional trade schools that they are prevalent and of reliably high quality in non-western countries?
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