At the project headquarters in Arlington, the SCMS team provided
general support to field offices; including additional bandwidth for
country projects, when needed; and identifying and addressing
common challenges across countries. Risk management appeared
to be one approach that could help formalize a process of
addressing the challenges. Risk management involves a focus on
risk events and the mechanisms driving the risk events. Across
many of the countries, the underlying causes of risks and the
adverse risk events, were both similar.