Topics for Reflection

• Working with the military
• Short-term stabilization - giving people what they want rather than what we think they "need" (in an aid-saturated environment)
• Working exclusively through for-profit implementing partners
• National interest as an OTI criteria for engagement
• COIN as a theory of change
• Strategic Yeast
• Is this really what OTI does?
• Does it work?
• Transformative platforms
• Participatory processes
• What are OTI's assumptions and theories of change?
• Distance from local populations
• "Whole of government"/"One team, one mission"/"Unity of effort" approach