I spent a decade in South Sudan and eastern DRC watching people sit in air-conditioned conference rooms in Geneva debating “resilience frameworks.” They use words …
Adaptation With Concrete Examples


I spent a decade in South Sudan and eastern DRC watching people sit in air-conditioned conference rooms in Geneva debating “resilience frameworks.” They use words …

I remember sitting in a humid, corrugated metal office in Goma, staring at a fifty-page document that promised to revolutionize our coordination efforts. Everyone in …

I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside of Goma, staring at a stack of empty crates that were supposed to hold temperature-sensitive vaccines. The …

I spent most of my years in the field watching people argue over spreadsheets while the actual supplies sat idling at a border crossing. You’ll …

I once spent three weeks in a humid warehouse outside Goma, waiting for a shipment of temperature-sensitive vaccines that were supposedly “funded by a major …

I remember sitting in a humid, corrugated iron warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of papers that claimed we had secured millions in funding. …

I spent a decade in South Sudan and eastern DRC watching high-level summits turn into glossy brochures, but I’ve never seen anything as disconnected from …

I spent a decade watching UN trucks kick up red dust in South Sudan, waiting for shipments that were always “on schedule” according to some …

I once spent three weeks in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of medical manifests that didn’t match the regional economic reports. …

I remember sitting in a humid warehouse in Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed our budget had doubled due to a favorable currency shift. …