It was quite hard to work under expectaions as we may not be able to reach all expectations at the same time. And recently i have found that working with the IDPs at Huai Wad became harder under expectations.
There were many expectations on solving the problems on water issue. The IDPs friend expected to have hill water system. They also expected us to work for them but we expected them to work out actively with local authorities, keeping coordinations and communications. The Local authorities and the neighboring villages expected the IDPs friends to be more active and cooperative. Thre were also high expectations that the Huai Wad people should proof that they had good prctices on forest researvation and there were no more drug trades in the village.
As there were no implementations of such expecations and with the lack of coordination, the expectations were just only daydreams . This let to frustrations and conflicts among all actors.
Expectation then can play both postive and negative role to working with the IPDs. How to meet this challenge ?
