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CASE #1. Food for the children—or bribes for the Minister of Education?
Food for the Children, an international NGO based in the UK, provides foodgrains and
powdered milk to families where children are at risk of malnourishment or starvation. It
has provided food to families in the small South Pacific Island nation of Papua Tuyua for
the past eight years, utilizing the school system as the means of identifying needy
children and distributing the food. The Minister of Education in Papua Tuyua has
approved the involvement of the school system in this project, though each year the
process of approval has become more cumbersome and drawn out. Sarah Britton has
arrived from London for a one week visit as the representative from Food for the
Children sent to negotiate the arrangement, and she quickly comes to the opinion that the
Education Minister is delaying the process in hopes for a bribe. The local school officials
are eager for the food supplies and assure Sarah that they can distribute the food on their
own with or without the Minister’s approval.
Sarah sends an email to the executive committee in London requesting instructions on
what she should do. The food has to be supplied within the next several days before the
monsoons come.
ROLE PLAY. You are members of the executive committee. What should Sarah do?
As sarah was sent to negotiate with the authorities. And she QUICKLY comes to the
opinion that the minister of education is delaying the process in hopes for a bribe.
After reading the case I came to an opinion that sarah should give few time to negotiation
with the education minister, understand the process of approval and then analyses what is
delaying it.
2ndly she should also work out with the school officials on their offer of distributing the
food on their own with or without the minister’s approval.
As it may be difficult for the schools to go against education minister because of laws and
regulations.