Development

I once sat in a humid briefing room in Goma, watching a consultant in a crisp linen suit present a sixty-page slide deck on sustainability. …

I spent a decade watching headquarters in Geneva and London pour over spreadsheets, debating the nuances of procurement frameworks and theoretical cost-benefit ratios. They love …

I spent most of my nine years in East Africa staring at stacks of compliance spreadsheets that promised everything was under control, while knowing damn …

I’ve sat through enough donor briefings to know that most people treat “accountability to affected people” like a sacred, abstract ritual—something you achieve by filing …

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 …

I spent a decade in South Sudan watching NGOs burn through six-figure budgets on “sensitivity training” workshops held in air-conditioned hotels, only to watch the …

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” …

I spent most of my nine years in East Africa watching people lose half their dignity—and their capital—waiting for a courier to arrive with a …

I once sat in a humid warehouse outside Goma, watching a shipment of life-saving vaccines sit on a pallet because the driver’s paperwork didn’t match …