Hi Chris,
No worries 🙂 Over the weekend, I was also thinking about the role of good governance and its impact on the other key sectors in DRR – specifically how difficult facing covid-19 is going to be under the Taliban.
When it comes to pandemics and other epidemics around the world like Ebola or Dengue, could organisations such as WHO be considered another layer of governance in disaster risk management planning? When Trump announced the US was pulling funding out of WHO months into the beginning of the Corona pandemic, I thought about how that decision would devastate the response capacity in many developing countries.
The other question I had in mind is how responsive are regimes like the Taliban to organisations such as the WHO or other IGOs/NGOs?
Regards,
John