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Remembering Who You Work For – The Beneficiary?… the Recipient?… the Donor?

Posted by Carlo on June 10, 2018
Posted in: Bangladesh, Development, International Relations, NGO, Non-Profit, Sustainable Developent Goals., Sustainable Development, Travel, W. Africa, West Africa. Tagged: Bangladesh, development, Dhaka, philanthropy, PMI, PMP, project management, USAID. 1 Comment

I was recently asked to speak at PMI – Bangladesh Chapter.  PMI is the Project Management Institute.

From it’s Wikipedia page,  “The PMI provides services including the development of standards, research, education, publication, networking-opportunities in local chapters, hosting conferences and training seminars, and providing accreditation in project management.”

It’s important to not just know what business you’re in but what type of business you want to have or you might have to ask yourself why you’re in it at all.

When I was asked to speak my first desired topic was leadership.  I mean that’s what they taught us in the Marines and if I thought I would leave anything behind it would be a few lessons learned from some of my all too often remembered mistakes from the past (some not so long ago!).

Leadership as a topic was taken.

Ethics and character would most likely be what my Marine Corps community would want me to share and discuss.

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Obligations to the stakeholders, our organization, our STAFF, definitely the vendors but what about our beneficiaries and recipients?  We owe them transparency.  We owe them the ability to stand by the many promises they’ve heard in the past and are sure to hear in the future.  How does one develop a sterling reputation in a world where corruption and moral decay are the currency of the realm?  It’s noteworthy that to be a straight shooter in this world and wait in line without paying the bribe, not short-cutting your way through the process with a kickback or hiring police to do one thing or another.  When you live in the United States it’s one thing but in fragile democracies and emerging autocracies it’s a bit more challenging.

Easy for me to say.  I’m a Westerner, an expat.  I was raised in a society were many of these concepts are sometimes taken for granted but when you’re placed in an environment where you have to make choices for the benefit of your project and organization and to stay on track you might notice where the short-cuts are.  Those short-cuts do nothing less than erode the governing principles that go into rule of law, transparent process and good and valued leadership.

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When you combine this witch’s brew of compromise into your organization you’ve plotted a downward trajectory that breeds low morale, inefficiency, cliques and contempt between colleagues.  It’s bad for your bottom line if you thought your proposed and actual budget would be reconciled cleanly.

This section should honestly call for various chapters within it that subscribe to how ethical behavior can and should influence the decision making within your organization not just for it’s own sake but also because it’s the right thing to do.

It’s Humanity Foundation – Local NGO Support

Posted by Carlo on February 7, 2018
Posted in: Bangladesh, Development, Gender Equality, Inter-Faith, International Relations, NGO, Non-Profit, Sustainable Development, Travel, Uncategorized. Leave a comment

While working in Bangladesh I have found small niche opportunities to support local NGO’s.  A spotlight NGO was the, “It’s Humanity Foundation”.  They work in the urban areas of Dhaka as well as rural areas.  Their aim is to improve educational opportunities for children.

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What’s the point?  Well each child assisted promotes another contributing member to society, enhances their welfare but more importantly because it’s the right thing to do.

I have attempted to find linkages between my personal project of Nino Abstract and Helen Keller International.

A few areas I thought were interesting were their special projects related to climate change/global warming.  The topic is of course interesting but I enjoyed the methodology and approaches they took to examining some of these important issues at an early age.

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I felt that depending upon the cultures we were reared in we carry many of those societal beliefs, expectations and attitudes.  I think that if I were to support those areas where kids were exposed to challenges where they were not only expected to think critically but were required to in order to confront a variety of mainstream beliefs then they would have accessed specific experiences they could later leverage in life should they need to question erroneous beliefs.  We don’t want to lead unexamined lives and I think that any child who is encouraged to ask questions will find the answers they are looking for if they bother to look.

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Some interesting statistics at a glance show nearly 50 children participated in the science fairs.

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These took place in December of 2017 and January of 2018.  They did a fantastic job.  I was unable to attend personally but I saw a lot of good media and the right attention and focus was on the kids.  They were beaming with pride and told “It’s Humanity Foundation” they didn’t think the “city people” would accept them or like them.  It’s disheartening to hear that children arrive with preconceived notions about their place in a society.

Nevertheless the children carried on and participated.  There was a wonderful little drama, art show they did at the end where they participated.  It was an inventive method of storytelling.  Making the children a part of the story being told rather than telling the story directly to them.  As a child this would better inform me of what challenges lay in this area but also because of what role I played in the show I would also see some of the linkages.  I applaud the group for considering this method of relaying important messaging to a child rather than a boring class or lecture.

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Reflecting on Liberia’s Ebola Experience for Oxford Vaccine.

Posted by Carlo on December 21, 2020
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Last week I was interviewed about my experience in Liberia during the ebola epidemic as it was tied in with the recently deployed Oxford vaccine. To get straight to it, the video is below.

Working in Uganda for two years provided much distance and perspective from working in other African countries. Djibouti, Tanzania, Liberia all have their unique and specific interests, goals and agendas yet share resources, cultures, languages and economies.

Interlinked through all these are also the fabric of well-being. Health. Mutual and shared prosperity. When COVID arrived in Uganda in March of 2019 I had some early predictions about how this would play out. Working in areas like urban and rural Bangladeshi landscape you can see what effects and direct impacts are on populations ranked as poor or ultra-poor by the UN, WFP, UNDP, UNICEF and others. You see commonalities. What these countries lack in national infrastructure they make up for in societal and cultural self-awareness. Countries who had necessarily had to access sustainable development goal oriented projects were able to pivot more quickly due to their immersion and proximity to these practices. They were also able to absorb the information about a new viral threat much like every other natural disaster they have faced. Floods, droughts, locusts, neglected tropical diseases also do not include global climate change, an non-existent middle class, and ongoing challenges for transparent political reform. Covid was just another day in Africa.

I was in Uganda for a year and a half working on the African Peacekeeping Rapid Response Partnership (APRRP). It was a State Dept funded program that was being administered and operated by AFRICOM, one of the commands belonging to the Dept of Defense. This program was designed for outcomes related to possessing the capability of rapidly deploying a Ugandan Battle Groups (UGABAGs are like modular USMC MEU’s that go our for 6 month rotations before being switched out).

Covid struck and we had to modify our schedules to adapt to the new quarantine protocols (travel, video-conferencing, scheduling, etc.). I found myself in Uganda with some 20 years of overseas experiences in developing countries with limited resources, opportunities or life support. I had seen several projects conducted in Bangladesh that were small in scope and ambition but yielded tremendous impacts.

I worked a small chain linking the topics of gender, vulnerable populations, economy, culture and WASH through the use of masks. Liberia we mobilized the community. There were many similarities and overlaps.

The up-shot of much of this is that many valuable lessons-learned were achieved vis-a-vis at the expense of human life. To mitigate or blunt the force and impact of a novel disease we developed lessons-learned and devised what-if scenario’s. Implementation of these lessons and protocols from recent calamities would reduce pressure on human suffering and impact other related sectors such as economy, tech, global climate change and the rest.

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PMI-ACP achieved!!!

Posted by Carlo on November 17, 2020
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I am happy to report that my Project Management Institute – Agile Certified Practioner (PMI-ACP) certification has been achieved.

I applied for and attained my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification was attained last February and now my PMI-ACP this November. It required a combination of:

  • Bootcamp (Project Management Academy
  • Griffith’s PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book
  • PMI’s, “Agile Certified Exam Outline”
  • 10 Practice Exams repeatedly scoring 85%
  • Personally made flash cards
  • (2) brain dumps per day memorizing the Manifesto and 12 Agile and 12 XP Principles
  • 6 weeks of study on a calendarized schedule, 6 hrs per day. (weekends off)
Griffith’s book and the Project Management Academy (PMA)

These are both noteworthy achievements for me ever since I left the U.S. Marine Corps in 2009. When I left the USMC I didn’t know what I didn’t know, even as an officer, even as someone who threw money at websites like Monster Jobs to prepare my CV for me. I can credit much of my success to Linked-In.

Patterns of Success

I was encouraged by family and friends to go after the PMI-ACP exam following my success with the PMP. I was unsure at first until I learned more about what the purpose and place of AGILE in project management really meant. Waterfall vs iteration/elaboration in a dynamic environment with perhaps no specific known outcome. Capital projects vs knowledge based projects.

Agile had more tools and was light on documentation whereas waterfall techniques in traditional waterfall had large change/edit overhead processes and tools where changes could severely impact the cost and duration of a project and were discouraged. With Agile, the mindset was welcoming changes early on and also using Test Drive Development to fail early to begin the refinement process. I learned quite a bit. I added many new tools to my approach toward project management which went beyond comprehensives work breakdown structures to models that could select the best stories from the backlog prioritized on early return of value to the customer, early and often. Good stuff.

The Project Management Academy had excellent instructors but I must emphasize on technique which I’m sure is time-honored but worth mentioning again here.

Following your boot camp, it’s a good idea to register for your PMI exam directly after the conclusion of the bootcamp. This puts you on a timetable and helps you stay accountable with yourself and plan a study plan.

A Lifetime of Service

Posted by Carlo on July 17, 2020
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As I transition from my current position in Uganda in the middle of 2020 I look back over the last 10 years working for INGO’s (international non-governmental agencies) and now as a consultant contractor for the Dept of Defense/AFRICOM, Dept of States Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) and in collaboration with the US Mission to Uganda via the US Embassy in Kampala. I work closely with the Office for Security and Cooperation (OSC) and the DATT/Col DuPont.

Officer candidate, Quantico, VA, June, 1993 (left), APRRP Logistics Advisor, Jinja, Uganda, June, 2020 (right)

I get to spend some time thinking of what I have actually contributed over the last 25+ years. I like to think that the world and its inhabitants taught me how to not just be a better leader or contributor or even American but a better and more human person inside.

I remember my first civilian job in 2009. After 12+ years of service and being a major I thought I knew a lot. I had a lot more to learn!!! #stayhumble. My first supervisor told me to learn project management. I had no idea what she meant or was talking about. Sometime in Haiti in 2015 I learned what it was. I wanted to gain my PMP.

I finally attained my PMP last Feb, 2020. It was a great personal achievement following my departure from the Marine Corps.

PMP!!!! Feb, 2020!!!

I will wrap it up here noting that without so much exposure, patience and mentorship from friends, colleagues, recipients, beneficiaries and the galaxy of stakeholders from each walk of life I wouldn’t have been able to leverage all these fancy titles and achievements to help the communities and world I live in at large.

It’s been a journey, one in which I would do again… in a twinkling of an eye.

African Peacekeeping Rapid Response Partnership (APRRP) July, 2020

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Project: Masker Aid

Posted by Carlo on May 20, 2020
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The purpose of the project is to promote and protect the social, economic and physical welfare of vulnerable populations in Jinja, Uganda using local strategies to respond to health, economic and gender issues due to the COVID19 virus.

Local solutions for global problems.


If the local ultra-poor population is provided government sanctioned face masks, then the local population will be compliant with government policy, protecting health and highlighting government linkage to public service delivery.


4 primary Sustainable Development Goals have mutual areas of interest in support of this project.
SDG 3: Good Health,
SDG 5: Gender Equality,
SDG 6: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH),
SDG 9: Innovation.
Jinja is in the Southeastern part of Uganda. It is a small district found east of the Nile River and along the northern shores of Lake Victoria. Jinja District has an area of 767.7sq Km of which 701.9 sq km is land and the rest (65.8 Sq km) is covered by water bodies.
The district is subdivided into 3 counties namely, Butembe, Kagoma and Jinja Municipality. There are 6 Sub-Counties; 46 Parishes and 381 villages. Jinja Municipality has three sub-counties and 55 villages. Rippon Village is a vulnerable fishing village on the bank of Lake Victoria.

Masks can’t hide smiles.

Health – Linkages include correlations between donning face protection and contamination. Given a 10,000 size population 7,500 will reach 75% of the population. 10% could potentially reduce cases by 20%.
“Results from a an influenza (H1N1) show that if N95 respirators are only 20% effective in reducing susceptibility and infectivity, only 10% of the population would have to wear them to reduce the number of influenza A (H1N1) cases by 20%. [Concluding] that, if worn properly, facemasks are an effective intervention strategy in reducing the spread of pandemic (H1N1) 2009.”
Published online 2010 Feb 10.
Mathematical Modeling of the Effectiveness of Facemasks in Reducing the Spread of Novel Influenza A (H1N1)
Samantha M. Tracht, Sara Y. Del Valle, and James M. Hyman
Dee A. Carter, Editor https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818714/

Scenes from Jinja, Uhanda during COVID19, 2020.


Economy – The fishing village serves the local economy producing revenue and fish to the town of Jinja. Fishing accounts for % of the local economy providing a vital link to livelihoods, health and food security.

Food security in Jinja. A frontline worker.

Gender – Linkages include impacts to women’s livelihoods, children’s nutrition/mortality rates, access to clinic support and educational opportunities for children. Acute income disparity impacts children resulting in lesser skilled population.

Local vendor, downtown Jinja, Uganda.

8 weeks: Producing 954 per week for total of 7,632.

Improvisation: Leveraging Local Talent in the Time of COVID19.

Posted by Carlo on May 11, 2020
Posted in: COVID19, East Africa, International Relations, Jinja, Labor, NGO, Non-Profit, Sustainable Developent Goals., Sustainable Development, Travel, Uganda, Uncategorized. Tagged: development, economy, Gender Equality, innovation, international affairs, Jinja, leadership, local economy, monitoring and evaluation, ninoabstract, ninoabstractconsulting, philanthropy, PMI, PMP, project management, small business, smallbusiness, SourceoftheNile, Uganda, WASH, women. Leave a comment

Think global, act local.  That’s the phrase.  As much as any other place, I have found myself in Uganda devising solutions on the scale/range that I can personally intervene or contribute.   In this essay I want to talk about culture, improvisation and best practices in project management.

Taking cues from the many NGOs I worked for in the past, I tried to identify what worked locally in terms of micro or informal economies.  Some are rickshaw drivers in Bangladesh or Boda drivers in Uganda.  Others might be seamstresses or shoe cobblers found in Afghanistan or Haiti.  In Uganda women are leading the way with the small business enterprising skills and skills with fabrics and textiles.


I found a local fashion designer with multiple bolts of unused cloth.  One of the edicts from Lean Six Sigma concerning one of the 7 wastes is inventory and that’s exactly what she had plenty of.

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Under the current premise of national quarantine, how do we effectively leverage the assets indigenous to Jinja, Uganda against a global pandemic?  What has worked before in the past?  Ebola?  Cholera?  Small-pox.  I am not an epidemiologist, scientist or medical professional of any sort.  I work operations in large NGOs.  To that I say I have practical field experience working in environments exposed to these risks and I know what my job is in terms of management, procurement, logistics, supply chains, burn rates, budgets consumption rates and overall project management. These are the images one finds while working at the Source of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda upon Lake Victoria.  Old world answers to old threats.

Many times when asking locals why they were not wearing masks the reply usually involved a trade-off between food and disposable masks.  I know these aren’t the N95 super-deluxe thing but this is trying to make do with what you have on the ground.  And if the Marine Corps is telling recruits to wear torn shirts to make bandanas in the US, Uganda can use these locally made masks.

Culture:

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.  It’s true.  Without understanding local priorities time, energy and resources can be wasted.  Economy of cost and time are of the essence and knowing and understanding how/why people move toward or away from certain trends can go into your root-cause analysis.  We all want to do the right thing by our local communities and the edict, “Do No Harm” should always be paramount and out there in front of all things we do.  If there is an aversion to appearances from facemasks… do they look sterile?  Something out of a movie?  Local solutions are always better.  Not to ever act as if you come in with a bright idea but sometimes a fresh perspective on a problem from an outsider is helpful if it’s objective.  Most of the time I’ve found that the local population knows what to do but awaits mobilization or a burst of leadership.  It doesn’t mean becoming an unwanted interventionist at the same time so it’s key to strike that balance.

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Improvisation:

Project Management:  Time and Cost.  It always comes down to those two factors. Who are your stakeholders?  Did anyone ask for your help?  How do you approach solutions for problems as an expat or someone from outside the community?  These are some Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning questions also.  Emic vs Etic data.  The quality here goes through a customer feedback cycle with the proprietor Miss Eva.  She wants to ensure fit, comfort and checks on the lengths of the elastic on the back.  Is it long enough to be adjustable.  She only has so much capital for buying more elastic so she must be efficient and economic with the amount of material she uses without shortchanging her consumer base and sacrificing brand or quality for excessive economy.  (you need extra elastic or ties sometimes based on the size/shape of each persons head).

The answer won’t always be staring you in the face.  Or.  The answer is staring you in the face but you have to think asymmetrically, use non-linear thinking… you can sometimes use Brian Eno’s Oblique Thinking strategies.  Clear you head and go do something else and the solution arrives like a flash of lightening.  It’s not a science.

Project Management and Best Practices:

There is so much under the term project management but the few key take-aways I saw were:

Economy – cross-spectrum analysis (hitting as many birds with one stone as possible)  Looking at trifectas or relationships.  WASH/Good Health/Gender/Finance-Vocation.Under any of these four you’re already in Sustainable Development Goal Territory.

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Which brings us to beneficiaries or stakeholders.

Stakeholders – Who are they and how do you sell them your “so what”?  Well.  In this case most people want to end the national quarantine.  I’m not going to do that with 200-1000 facemasks.  It comes down to the US Marine Corps motto of ductus exemplo or leadership by example.  I am going to wear this product.  I want industry and a return to normalcy.  At the same time we know that fundamentally things have changed and perhaps permanently.  So how do you sell resilience and capacity building to the stakeholders and beneficiaries at large.  The wheel has to be turning in the same direction of benefit for everyone.  You can support small business enterprises, local, women owned/run and move the needle on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) to help bring us closer to the end of quarantine.  That’s my If/Then logical statement.  If I intervene at the axis of these (4) SDG areas I can make an impact at the local level and across these areas that thwart the COVID19 while enhancing these areas simultaneously.

resonance

 

 

CIMIC – Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) – Jinja, Uganda

Posted by Carlo on March 8, 2020
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At Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), the mission is to deliver relevant SOF-specific education to the USSOCOM enterprise and priority partners to influence the current and future strategic environment. Their vision is to be SOF’s advantage; sharpening minds by inspiring ideas, connecting people, and accelerating learning. We were lucky to have the current team in town to provide civil-military relations training to the Ugandan People’s Defense Force (UPDF) at the Ugandan Rapid Deployment Capability Centre. Great team and looking forward to engaging with again. Godspeed gents.

CIV-MIL Affairs Instructors - Joinst Special Forces University
CIV-MIL Affairs Instructors – Joinst Special Forces University

Ken LaVoy Ted Martin, CSM (R) BG (R) Michael Warmack #updf #metisolutions #urdcc #sustainability #civmil #cimic #cmo #aprrp #capacitybuilding #jsou #jointspecialoperations #jsoc #africom #carlonino #carlo #ninoabstract #ninoabstractconsulting

Project Management Professional (PMP) – Attained

Posted by Carlo on February 23, 2020
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I am glad to report that after 5 years I finally did something about getting my PMP credential.  Currently in Jinja, Uganda at the source of the Nile on a capacity building contract working with the Ugandan People’s Defense Force (UPDF). The project is named the African Rapid Response Peacekeeping Initiative or APRRP.  It’s funded through the US Dept of State’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI).

Backing up for a moment, I left the US Marines on Oct. 31 2009 as a major.  Working in the NGO world starting with Afghanistan I learned I needed to work on my civilian project management skills.  The military gave me insight into planning processes such as the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) and the Rapid Response Planning Process (R2P2).  These helped me to understand systems like the 6 Stage Planning process the British implemented and are widely used by many East African community member states.  This planning process is used in support of contingency issues or the UN activity in Somalia.

I was working in Haiti when I signed up for a project management boot camp.  I took the test a month later and failed.  I wasn’t pleased and to be fair I honestly decided to take a break.  I was distracted with a 3 year contract in Dhaka, Bangladesh as the Deputy Country Director at Helen Keller International (HKI) on a food security project.  I took a refresher course in project management there and applied modest amounts of the curriculum where I felt it would assist us.  The most obvious places were in schedule and cost management.  Quality assurance and control were paramount to ensuring a verified delivery became an accepted delivery and so on.

Finally in 2020, while working in Uganda I managed to find a testing facility in Kampala and on 21 Feb. 2020 I finally attained my goal and became certified.

Cheers!

6 Exercises For Mastering Cultural Agility

Posted by Carlo on June 13, 2018
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While working in Bangladesh I have worked mostly in the operations role and field.  That means procurements, finances, HR responsibilities, staying abreast of all IT related issues, SECURITY, it goes on and on. I’m not on the program side of things.

What is not missing if daily interaction in Bangladesh.  Some days are more successful than others and sometimes when I’m saying hello or good morning to my staff it can appear gratuitous.

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Developing cultural agility takes time and time+errors builds experience and lessons learned.  I found it valuable to keep a journal but also mouth shut and eyes and ears open.  What does the country have to say to you, what to the people have to say to you, how is it said and what’s your orientation?

Lately I have been exploring more and more of Participatory Rural Appraisals or PRA.  They are an alternative to using survey’s and questionnaires putting the local population in charge of it’s own affairs and listening and learning how to proceed vs asserting an outside influence on how to get things done.

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PRA ranking exercise being carried out by members of a Farmer Field School in Bangladesh, 2004

I set about asking how does one go about developing basic skills for cultural agility and guess what?  I found the following and they are extremely helpful.

Six key skills that will help you master cultural agility from Michelle Randall:

  1. Self-awareness. Being aware of your own cultural biases, behaviors, and worldviews.
  2. Being attuned to your environment, and to cultural nuances. Adjusting your behavior to harmonize the relationship–without mimicking.
  3. Adapting to cultural differences and ambiguities. Being flexible to the situation.
  4. Being authentic. (It’s not about putting on somebody else’s culture, but about being able to interact in a way that’s relevant and important to them.)
  5. Acquiring knowledge about other cultures. Immersing yourself in the foreign culture and seeking out new experiences.
  6. Continually assessing how you’re developing in each of these areas, and looking for opportunities to grow.

Every person will find what works for them.  My father gave me a copy of, “The Ugly American”.  A book written 1958, a political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer which influenced the way the American overseas behaved and impacted policy, helping to form the Peace Corps.

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The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer which depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia.

The authors were disillusioned with the style and substance of U.S. diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia. They sought to demonstrate through their writings their belief that American officials and civilians could make a substantial difference in Southeast Asian politics if they were willing to learn local languages, follow local customs and employ regional military tactics.

PMI Discussion Brief

Posted by Carlo on June 11, 2018
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Hi all.

I have been asked for the notes on my brief and I’m including them here.

Thanks for all who attended.

Remembering Who You Work For – The Beneficiary?… the Recipient?… the Donor?

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