Strategy, efficiency, and innovation in humanitarian action. Field notes on how the work actually gets done, done differently.
Count the layers between the person who sees a need and the person allowed to meet it. In many of our organizations the honest number is six or seven. A field officer reports to a coordinator, who…
A decision that takes nine months is a decision against the people waiting.
We built coordination to save the response time. Too often it has become a second job that spends the very time it was meant to protect.
We are good at adopting language before we adopt discipline. “AI” now sits in our proposals, our strategies, and our board decks, often before anyone has asked the harder question. Does this give a…