I remember sitting in a humid, corrugated iron warehouse outside Goma, staring at two different spreadsheets that claimed to describe the exact same shipment of …
Sharing Data Without Exposing People
May 2026
A Rapid Needs Assessment
I once spent three days in a dusty compound outside Goma, watching a consultant in a crisp polo shirt try to explain how needs assessments …
Why Two Agencies Dug the Same Well
I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma in 2012, staring at a stack of signed manifests that meant absolutely nothing because the trucks …
Who Wins the Contracts
I spent nine years in the dust of East Africa, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that nobody actually cares about …
Incentive Workers and Their Status
I once sat in a humid office in Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed we had “successfully disbursed” local stipends to a community health …