People | Places | Policies | Perspectives
Reflections, critical analysis and commentary on development, humanitarian action, public policy and program evaluation — and beyond.
“Better conversations.
Stronger evidence.
More inclusive societies.”
Written from the position of both an evaluator and a citizen: someone trained to question policy and programs, and someone living with their consequences.
Founded and written by Kassem El Saddik, a senior evaluation, research and policy professional. Read the profile.
Reflection, critical analysis, reviews, and commentary on politics, governance, development, humanitarian action, public policy, and program evaluation.
We look past policies, programs, and institutional narratives to the evidence, assumptions, incentives, power relations, and lived realities that shape them, asking why, for whom, under what conditions, and with what consequences.
اتفاق الإطار: لبنان بين فكي الوصاية
Reads the Lebanon–Israel framework agreement within a wider regional picture — US–Iran negotiations and Israeli calculations — in which Lebanon risks remaining a bargaining chip instead of a state negotiating for its own sovereignty.
وقف إطلاق النار في لبنان: الخيار الوحيد أمام استحالة الحسم
Lebanon is less a decision-maker in the current war than the ground on which two military strategies collide. A ceasefire is the only realistic option — and it would open a long management phase, not solve the internal crisis.
الدولة والسلاح الغير شرعي في لبنان: أزمة الدور والاستراتيجية لا أزمة قرار
The debate over restricting arms to the state has become a test of the state's own capacity. What is missing is not the principle but a national strategy, a phased path and guarantees to make it achievable.
