We all want the best possible people to work for us, but we need to do it in a way that will not lower the working standards of indigenous organizations. We need to find our own people and bring them into our organizations. We need to teach them how to be efficient. We need to teach them responsibility. It's a very difficult environment.
People arrive with a lot of enthusiasm, but in about a week, that enthusiasm dissipates.
Because of the enormity of need in the CIS there is the temptation to implement large projects. Please resist this temptation. Depending on your organization's available long-term resources and experience, focus on one project at a time. Consult with organizations with more than one year's experience in the CIS and learn from their mistakes. Projects need to start out small.