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Daniel O’Neil, Country Director

Binational meeting in Elias Piña, Dominican Republic

The biggest stumbling block to cross-border collaboration on the Haitian-Dominican border is language. We’ve tried every technique to facilitate cross-border meetings:

1. Handpicking participants to ensure a common language (normally Spanish, but sometimes English): This makes for easy meetings, but normally eliminates key people that should participate but don’t have the language skills. Read the rest of this entry »