Stephen Anderson is a partner with Food Economy Group, a food security consultancy. The issue he addresses in this multimedia case is planning for a new phase of a project that his company has been working on in Ethiopia for the past four years. The new phase requires the development of a number of analytical tools. It needs further the enhancement of an intricate database. There are a number of demands on the IT side and they need to figure out how best to source the resources needed to address them.