A Holistic Concept – Fair to Nature and to Humankind
The members of our association are certain that in today’s world any change, wherever it might occur, has to be implemented from a holistic angle to be efficient.
Therefore, a development project today has to be planned, carried through, and long-term accompanied in a holistic way. Possible influences and effects which result from our efforts as well as those from the outside world should be taken into account during the planning stage.
We believe what the two professors for business studies Dietrich von der Oelsnitz and Jürgen Weibler (for a slightly different concept) stipulated in 2005 in the preface to their textbook series on management, Organisation and Management1, is true: the problems which we encounter within thinking (about) and enacting (in organisations), do not carry interdisciplinary labels.
Core capabilities and combined knowledge
Kaule e.V. as rich Pool of Experience
This title implies that our association is composed by people from diverse backgrounds such as new and seasoned biologists, agricultural scientists, sociologists, linguists, economists, urban planners, IT-professionals and others.
Each of them bring their practical and theoretical professional competencies as well as their own life experience into the shared project work of the association.
On site, the main stakeholders are the supported farmers and their families. They bring in their own experience as practical and theoretically relevant core practices.
With its projects our association offers help to teach farmers to help themselves; from ecological and social-economic planning, assistance with tangible and personally attainable means, scientific attendance and knowledge sharing, as well as cooperation based on partnership with further on-site supporters. All this is manifest in the form of our current project in Kaule, Nepal. Everybody is very welcome to join our association if interested and/or to support the project with their own profession and experience.
We need everything, but do not need to do everything on our own
Kaule e.V. as a valuable partner amongst international partners
Kaule e.V. is very active in formulating its project goals and implementing its projects. It is actively looking for cooperation with other existing projects and organisations, which are working on-site in similar or related areas.
Furthermore, the evaluation of progress on the basis of scientific documentation concerning the ecological and socioeconomic development goals is a essential part of the association. With it we support and improve our methods as well as a stable help network for the relevant farmers and the local people.
1.The same (Ed.): Preface to the Series Organisation & Management, Publisher W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005 et seqq. To the necessary interdisciplinary, holistic approach and discussion of the different current ecological and socioeconomic processes of change focussing mainly on sustainability also compare the book series ” Forum for Responsibility” published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt on the Main, edited by Klaus Wiegandt et al., Foundation Forum for Responsibility, 2006 et seqq.
