“Everybody inside the aid industry knows what should be done. Everybody knows how it could be better.  But to implement all those recommendations, that’s the problem. To think of how it should be better, how it can be better, is not the difficult part, it’s the implementation part.” -Linda Polman   A conversation with Linda Polman and insights from the field This semester I am again teaching a course on the humanitarian aid industry. Last week we had a special visitor to my class, Dutch journalist and author Linda Polman.  I have been using her book The Crisis Caravan in my class for the last five years and was pleased that she was able to take time this semester to talk with me and my students. Implementation One of the biggest takeaways from our half hour conversation was that there is a chronic and perhaps intractable gap between broad stroke policy … Continue reading A conversation with Linda Polman and insights from the field