Hey Cavguy--

Those are 5 excellent points. On building infrastructure and good governance, one of the first things is to determine what the local people want and help them get it. If they think a soccer field is the most important thing in the world, then it probably is and they have a good reason for thinking so. Regarding governance: My experience has been that most cultures do have a form of holding leaders accountable that has some relationship to the mechanism we call democracy. Taking advantage of that local mechanism is often a key to success both in building infrastructure and better governance but also in moving toward more democratic mechanisms that fall within the cultural parameters of the local people.

Cheers

JohnT