Development

I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a digital spreadsheet that claimed our distribution was 95% efficient. On the screen, everything …

I’ve sat through enough donor briefings in Geneva to know that people love to talk about “frameworks,” “digitization,” and “resilience metrics.” They treat the construction …

I’ve sat through enough donor briefings to know that most people have no clue how resilience is measured in the real world. They want to …

I spent three weeks in South Sudan waiting for a shipment of solar pumps that looked perfect on a spreadsheet in Geneva, only to realize …

I spent nine years in East Africa watching people get lost in spreadsheets while the actual work stalled in the mud. I’ve sat in meetings …

I once sat in a humid, windowless tent in Goma, watching three different agency heads argue over a color-coded spreadsheet while a shipment of temperature-sensitive …

I spent nine years watching people in air-conditioned offices in Geneva and DC argue over high-level metrics, while I was staring at a broken axle …

I spent nine years watching NGOs argue over spreadsheets in air-conditioned offices while I was trying to figure out why a shipment of oxytocin was …

I once spent three days sitting in a dusty Land Cruiser outside a warehouse in Goma, waiting for a shipment of antibiotics that had been …