China and Africa

As to "investing in [projects]", it's not a zero-sum game. I see three interlocked groups: priorities, opportunities, and resources (are there more in that vein?). Other global efforts with their own priorities, in a position to point to or create opportunities, have resources that they don't always know how to direct; when we can identify ways to combine the three, everyone benefits. It would be helpful to see a breakdown of specific proposals along those lines:

 mission priorities   
      --->  proposals to accomplish each priority
                  ---->  costs of each proposal  
                  ---->  dependencies, shared components
 
 opportunities  
      --->  proposals to take advantage of each opportunity
                  ---->  gains from each proposal (including new resources)
                  ---->  mission priorities furthered by each
 
 resources available 
      --->  ways to get more of each resource
                  ---->  partners
                  ---->  calls for help
      --->  proposals depending on each resource

Separating priorities, opportunities, and resources would help avoid some of the current confusion, where "not a priority for investment" is being interpreted as "not supported from in terms of interpretation of the mission".

Perhaps we can phrase "not a priority" better: divide opportunities into "funding and messaging priority", "important goal needing further analysis; way forward is not clear", "goal best achieved by regional groups, chapters, and languages", and "not a core priority". The first three should all be pursued enthusiastically wherever there are low-cost high-impact solutions. [the bottleneck is identifying those solutions]

Very few areas that had a serious Task Force assigned to them fall into the last category -- they were selected precisely because they are a priority for some parts of our current efforts, or because they are representative of a large potential effort or audience not currently served but addressed by our mission.