"Sustainable capacities" : Norwegian people’s aid through 13 years of humanitarian mine action in Mozambique

Abstract

Building local organisations for demining is about technology transfer between widely different environments. While Norwegian People’s Aid’s demining operations in Mozambique were intended to last only for a short period of time, they remained for 13 years. The case presents an organisational study of the organisation created in Mozambique and seeks answers to how it developed and why it is not likely that an organisational capacity remains. It also elaborates on how varying interests among the stakeholders led to changing, vague and unrealisable goals being defined.