Posted on 1/11/2009

November was almost entirely occupied with follow-up to USAID Mongolia’s annual portfolio review, which directly fed into the preparation of the annual Mission’s Performance and Planning Report (PPR).  The latter exercise was greatly facilitated by the 9-22 November visit to Mongolia of Ms. Andrea Sternberg from the F Bureau in Washington, D.C.  With the advent of cold weather in Mongolia, the pace of implementation of the Mission’s major field activities such as the Gobi Initiative and the Growing Entrepreneurs Rapidly (GER) Project will be significantly reduced.  Lastly, USAID Mongolia ranks were augmented by the welcome addition of Ms.  Undrakh Bulgan, our new development outreach and communications (DOC) specialist.