While regional expertise will always be key to implementing successful, sensitive programming, I believe good development starts with good listening — which is something dynamic organizations like IREX can do anywhere in the world.
My friends are never surprised to hear I have a business trip coming up – some even refer to me as a “traveling frog,” or “lyagushka puteshestvennitsya,” after a character in a popular Russian children’s story. Because of my field experience and program portfolio, I’m usually headed somewhere I can use my Russian. So my friends were understandably confused when I mentioned I was planning a trip to assess the basic education sector in Uganda: “Why Africa?”
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