I once sat in a humid, windowless briefing room in Goma, watching a consultant present a thirty-page slide deck on “optimal resource allocation models.” He …
Why Good Evidence Does Not Change Policy


I once sat in a humid, windowless briefing room in Goma, watching a consultant present a thirty-page slide deck on “optimal resource allocation models.” He …

I spent a decade in the back of dusty Land Cruisers across South Sudan and the DRC, where the only metric that mattered was the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I once sat in a humid tent outside Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed three million dollars had been “allocated” for malaria prevention. On …

I spent a decade in the DRC and South Sudan watching policy experts in Geneva debate the intricacies of how local manufacturing is supported, while …

I once sat in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of temperature-controlled crates that were legally cleared but practically useless. The paperwork …