He’s just taken two wounded and one dead. All he has to report is one confirmed, one probable. This won’t look good. Bad ratio. He knows all sorts of bullets were flying all over the place. It was a point-to-point contact, so no ambush, so the stinkin’ thinin’ goes round and round, so the probable …
Tag: Project Management
Project Management II. Of prolonged emergencies and temporary endavors.
A Complex Emergency is defined as: a) a humanitarian crisis which occurs in a country, region, or society where there is a total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from civil conflict and/or foreign aggression; b) a humanitarian crisis which requires an international response which goes beyond the mandate or capacity of any single agency; …
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Talking about project management. Of logical frameworks and universal solutions
[A project] is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources. And a project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations …
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Relocation in Doro, Maban
I spent most of my time in South Sudan in a county called Maban, in the North Eastern edge of the country, not far from the border with Sudan. The county hosts about 100,000 refugees that started to arrive from Sudan in 2012, moving away from a conflict in Blue Nile State. That is a …
Relocation in Bor
If you open Google Maps at these coordinates, you will see two huge compounds next to each other, a rectangular and a squared one. The rectangular one is the base in Bor of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The square is the Bor Protection of Civilian Site (PoC). For those who have …
