We failed the Afghan people
Afghanistan is now how it was always going to turn out to be. There was an adage floating around Afghanistan in my time there, ‘The Americans have the watches but the...
Shelter where it is needed.
Just reading an article where some bright young thing has designed a small shelter that they are proposing to be used to house billions. (more…)
The End of War in Afghanistan
The American’s have the watches, the Taliban have the time, so went a saying familiar around the halls of government in Afghanistan. Trying to understand the motivation of the war...
Who Knows Best
One of the things I have noted over the years from working in the field is the limited involvement by implementing parties of a local public consensus on what ever...
Coins and Aid Programs
Over the last two decades, as many will know, I have been engaged in working out the ways to get some hundreds of millions of dollars in funds distributed out...
Holiday in the Southern Hotspots
Well it is not really a holiday, except for the local staff whom have been given half a day off for the inauguration of President Obama leaving the rest of...