Last month, I undertook a 10-day trip along the Thai-Myanmar border. In part its purpose was to explore further the nature and workings of the local governance structures which Scott Guggenheim and I had argued needed to be supported by the international community in our piece entitled "Taking risk and supporting local governance", published in the Bangkok Post on March 24.
The conclusion: Strong local community networks exist, and they must be supported. The bottleneck is the willingness of donors to take responsibility to bear the political risks to use these conduits.
