NAIROBI — In an effort to save money and run more efficiently, Plan International is experimenting with a “networked model” that uses regional administrative hubs to serve its country offices. These hubs centralize the organization’s operations in areas such as finance, human resources, information technology, logistics, and procurement into a regional hub that serves country offices in the region, rather than hiring staffers to perform these functions in each of the organization’s country offices.
The first administrative hub was launched in June 2017 in Egypt, to serve the Middle East region. The hub provides systems management for the Jordan and Lebanon office.
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Sara Jerving
Sara Jerving is Devex's East Africa Correspondent based in Nairobi. She is a reporter and producer, whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Vice News, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Nation magazine, among others. Sara holds a master's degree in business and economic reporting from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow.
