Help row, not steer: Lessons from the Ebola crisis response

The World Health Organization has been given a long to-do list, following its lackluster performance at the height of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

As it turns out, the U.N. health agency shouldn’t be the only one carrying such a list.

In a new report by the African Governance Initiative titled “State of Emergency,” the charity, known for working alongside government leaders to accomplish their national development goals, identified a number of instances when international development actors’ well-intentioned but uninformed actions led to delays, complications and gaps in the response.

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