I remember sitting in a humid transit office outside Goma, staring at a stack of casualty reports that felt more like death warrants than data. …
Coming Home From a Difficult Assignment
Targets That Distort Behaviour
I remember sitting in a humid, makeshift office in Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed we had achieved a 95% immunization rate for a …
Poverty as More Than Income
I spent nine years in the back of dusty Land Cruisers across South Sudan and the DRC, watching people try to solve crises with nothing …
Consultation That Is Not Tokenism
I spent three years in South Sudan watching “community engagement workshops” eat up forty percent of project budgets while the actual delivery schedules sat gathering …
Following a Crop to the Shelf
I once spent three days in a humid warehouse outside Goma, watching a shipment of temperature-sensitive vaccines sit on a concrete floor because the paperwork …
Where the Poverty Line Comes From
I spent nine years watching trucks get stuck in the mud outside Goma, waiting for paperwork that never came. While the economists in Geneva were …
Acting Before the Disaster Arrives
I spent most of my nine years in East Africa watching people argue over high-resolution satellite imagery and complex meteorological modeling while the actual supply …
Poverty in Middle Income Countries
I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of shipping manifests for a shipment of vaccines that was technically “too …
Hostile Environment Basics
I’ve sat through enough three-day security seminars in Geneva to know that most of the training is pure theater. They hand you a glossy binder …
Graduating Out of Aid Eligibility
I remember sitting in a dusty warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of high-level policy briefs that promised “sustainable systemic shifts” while the actual …