In recent years, the nature of missions has changed considerably: Cooperation with local partners is steadily increasing, whereas the deployment of our own teams for practical work on the ground has steadily decreased. There are many reasons for this: on the one hand, there are now stricter requirements to be able to operate as an NGO in an assignment country. This requires complex certification processes. Secondly, we believe that working with local staff is generally the most sensible way to provide aid, provided that the appropriate resources are available in the country of assignment. In recent years, we have therefore mainly sent assessment teams and coordinators to our project areas, and only a few specialists to implement the aid measures themselves.