I’ve sat through enough donor briefings in Geneva to know that most people treat gender like a checkbox on a spreadsheet. They talk about “mainstreaming” …
Gender Analysis That Changes a Design
July 2026
Notes That Would Stand Up Later
I once sat in a humid office in Goma, staring at a glossy donor report that claimed we had “successfully reached 5,000 beneficiaries” through a …
Legal Review Before Publication
I once spent three weeks in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of legal documents that promised “total compliance” while the actual …
Food Sovereignty Versus Food Security
I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma in 2014, staring at a stack of empty grain sacks and a broken-down Hilux. On the …
Offsets and Whether They Add Anything
I spent nine years watching trucks struggle through mud in South Sudan, where a “projected impact” meant nothing if the axle snapped ten miles from …