Twaweza's Head, Rakesh Rajani, presented some of the background thinking to Twaweza at a World Bank meeting on the political economy of reform in Washington on June 21st. Drawing on the situation analysis that led to Twaweza's formation, as well as on experiences from Twaweza's 2009 field trip/immersion, Rakesh presents critical observations on the gap between two worlds: the world of lived realities and the world of officialdom. He argues that development practices have peeled away from the world of lived realities, and provides examples of how Twaweza works to engage with these.

Follow one strand of a debate about development workers and the people they work with...through tracking a debate and viewing a presentation on Twaweza's field trip/immersion in 2009.