# What happens when an NGO admits failure

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxYYC
- Speaker: David Damberger
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/david_damberger_what_happens_when_an_ngo_admits_failure)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger analyzes his own engineering failure in India -- and calls for his friends in the development sector to publicly admit, scrutinize and learn from their missteps.

## Lectures

1. [What happens when an NGO admits failure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/david_damberger_what_happens_when_an_ngo_admits_failure/80f970ab7786), 13 min (TED's player)