On point --- This reference just confirmed a previous point I made here. Countries raced to join this platform even during a national crisis for their own, but not to lose the 'soft power' they have in the international sphere. Quoting from the reference: 'ACT-A may be large in scale, but it suffers from the same shortcomings as countless previous global health initiatives', shows that these partners/donors since they are not all governments, have not been through this once only, but even when a global and ugly pandemic, hit us all this hard, they could not use the lessons learned from previous global health intitiatives to avoid the same shortcomings, because their focus is not on the impact, rather on the POWER. If these as diplomats, had to think smarter, not in different direction, they would have achieved both.

Source author: Muna Zaqsaw zaqsaw.muna89@gmail.com