I remember sitting in a humid transit office outside Goma, staring at a radio dispatch that had gone silent for three hours. The headquarters in …
When an Emergency Stops Being One
Patents and the Price of Medicine
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 …
Restructuring Debt Under the Common Framework
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 …
Vaccine Equity and What Failed
I spent a decade watching high-level officials in Geneva and Nairobi argue over allocation formulas and equity metrics, but none of those spreadsheets ever helped …
Electrifying the Last Twenty Per Cent
I spent a decade watching consultants in Nairobi and Geneva argue over high-level frameworks, convinced that the way how energy access policy is set was …
Tracing a Payment Through Public Records
I remember sitting in a humid, corrugated metal office outside Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed we had successfully disbursed six months of malaria …
What Happens When a Country Defaults
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 …
The Handover at the End of a Mission
I once watched a three-week handover collapse in a dusty compound outside Goma because a departing logistics officer spent four days polishing a transition report …
Measuring Whether People Can Absorb a Shock
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 …
Deploying People in Seventy Two Hours
I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma in 2012, staring at a stack of empty crates while a coordinator in Geneva gave a …