Abstract

This paper examines the compatibility of the development programs which are implemented by the Non-Governmental Organizations’ (NGOs) in the Midlands, Matabeleland and Masvingo provinces of Zimbabwe with the cultural sustainability and sustainable development in these cultural communities. This paper argues for the integration of cultural capital in the developmental projects which are implemented by the NGOs in the provinces of Zimbabwe. This paper is based on the data which was collected from five NGOs and six cultural communities which are the beneficiaries of the NGOs’ development programs. The theoretical underpinnings of this paper are situated in cultural conservatism, a philosophy which valorises the traditional cultural institutions and the organic change of these cultural communities. This study establishes that, the programs implemented by the NGOs in Zimbabwe are predetermined and are detached from the cultures of the communities in which they are implemented. In view of the argument that culture is an important component in development, both as cultural capital and in defining development, this paper concludes that the prescriptive NGOs’ development programs are detrimental to cultural sustainability and sustainable development in Zimbabwe. Therefore, this paper argues that there is need to integrate the cultural capital of the communities in the designing and implementation of the NGOs development programs in Zimbabwe.

Highlights

  • The impetus of this paper is on the bickering between the government of Zimbabwe and the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the post-2000 period

  • Though this development was heavily criticised as an issue which was heavily castigated as unwarranted meddling with the civil society, this paper sets the politics marking foreign aid aside and looks at the compatibility of the Non-Governmental Organizations’ (NGOs)’ developmental programs with cultural sustainability and sustainable development in the Zimbabwean cultural communities

  • This paper argues for the integration of cultural capital enshrined in the human factor which is important for the sustainability of development into the NGOs’ programs

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Introduction

The impetus of this paper is on the bickering between the government of Zimbabwe and the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the post-2000 period. According to Mpofu (2012), in this period the Zimbabwean scenario somewhat resembles serious antagonism between seemingly opposing but complimentary entities which are the government of Zimbabwe and the NGOs in Zimbabwe.

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