Interesting arrangement!!! --- I find this exchange of economic experts and career diplomats within ministries a very interesting and significant for empowering, capacitating and enhancing career diplomats with relevant tools to utilise abroad on behalf of their countries. I find it to be an important intergovernmental skill transfer arrangement even though I know from experience that in some countries, it may not do well with career diplomats, sadly even when it is meant to capacitate them. This is the case even in countries that do not breed career diplomats per se but have civil servants employed in the Ministry of foreign affairs. The fact that diplomatic postings include foreign service, makes it hard for career diplomats to open up to positive change and diversity.

Source author: Malefetsane Dominic Mosala mosalalaw@gmail.com