Of course in this case, the whole point of the project is in the writing. When we say it’s all over we mean the process of submitting a project proposal and getting it approved. That part’s over. Now we have to sit down and write the book.

Let’s backtrack a little bit. Several months ago the Embassy of the United States of America issued a call for proposals for their 2007 Democracy Small Grants program. PWI submitted a proposal called “Facing the Challenges of Fighting Corruption in Procurement --Enhancing CSO Effectiveness and Motivation”. What we meant by this rather complicated expression was that we wanted to tell the true stories of some Procurement Observers and Monitors who have successfully fought corruption. And we wanted to tell their stories so that other Observers and Monitors can read the stories and be encouraged by them.

In the first week of September, we happily received a letter from the US Embassy, telling us that our project proposal had been approved for funding. You can imagine how excited we are to write the stories for this book! It sure beats writing pages and pages of boring reports and documentation.