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Professor Linda Gibson is an Emerita Professor of Global Public Health. Prior to her Emerita, she was a postgraduate teaching and master’s and doctoral student supervisor, involved in research and consultancy, and the internationalisation lead for the Institute of Health & Allied Professions (IHAP). She is involved in several research projects in Europe, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Burkina Faso, and the UK. Her research focuses on health promotion and health systems/services, non-communicable diseases, and community development/engagement.

Linda is the lead partner for the formal Health Partnership Scheme (HPS), supported by the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET), between Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and NTU since 2011, and is now NTU's 4th strategic international partner. She initiated and co-steers the Pan-African Mental Health Research Network and founded the Eastern Africa PhD Hub. Her work has substantially contributed to the establishment of a new Eastern Africa Centre at NTU.

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This webinar continues a collaborative effort started through regional engagements organised by the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR). In 2024, UKCDR held workshops in various countries, including Kenya, creating opportunities for researchers, administrators, and partners to explore challenges and opportunities in collaborative research. At the Nairobi workshop in Kenya, participants from institutions such as Makerere University (Mak), Uganda Martyrs University (UMU), Mountains of the Moon University (MMU), Nottingham Trent University (NTU), and others connected and expanded on these discussions during a subsequent meeting in London. These forums sparked the idea for a joint project to strengthen South–South and South–North partnerships. The objective is to promote equitable collaborations in international research among Makerere University, Uganda Martyrs University, Mountains of the Moon University, NARO, and Nottingham Trent University through shared learning, dialogue, and joint planning. Building on webinars on partnership practices and institutional collaboration previously conducted online and at Makerere University and NTU, this seeks to further reflect on those insights.

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Equitable Partnerships joint Workshop Report _ November_ 2025(4)

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Equitable partnerships in global research have been widely debated in recent years, but the real challenge remains: how do we turn what we have learned into meaningful practice? What must institutions in the Global North actively change in light of the well-documented barriers to genuine collaboration? And crucially, how can partnerships not only survive but thrive in times of uncertainty?

In this webinar, we will have a thoughtful conversation grounded in the work our partnerships have undertaken over the past year. Together, we will explore practical steps, shared insights, and new ways of working that move us from discussion towards transformation.

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Mathew: How do we turn what learning has been gained in understanding both the barriers and the opportunities for global partnerships to work together towards becoming more equitable into meaningful practice?

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Mathew: How do we turn what learning has been gained in understanding both the barriers and the opportunities for global partnerships to work together towards becoming more equitable into meaningful practice?

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Megan (GHP) How can partnerships not only survive but sustain and thrive in times of uncertainty as the architecture of global health changes and funding streams dry up?

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Megan (GHP) How can partnerships not only survive but sustain and thrive in times of uncertainty as the architecture of global health changes and funding streams dry up?

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Toby: What or how must institutions in the Global North / South actively change in light of our learning about how to transform our ways of working?

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Toby: What or how must institutions in the Global North / South actively change in light of our learning about how to transform our ways of working?

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Since 2010, the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has had a formal partnership with the School of Public Health at Makerere University, Uganda. This collaboration has recently expanded to include other disciplines at both universities including nursing, microbiology, veterinary, as well as environmental and agricultural sciences. The focus of this partnership is on training, community service, research and capacity building in Uganda and UK. Makerere University is a NTU Institutional International Partner.

Inequalities & social justice; gender; social enterprise​

Ecological thinking ​

Moving health systems up stream - health promotion comprehensive primary health care ; social model of health​

Working at the boundaries - visible /invisible; formal /informal: Challenging the power structures; valuing different forms of knowledge​

Research with impact; that makes a difference​

Partnership leadership investment ​

CwPAMS2 Extension
Centre of Excellence on antimicrobial stewardship in Central Uganda. Makerere University School Public Health were co-applicants to the Funding Body. Status: Project phase - 2.
International Partnership Fund
NTU Internal Fund to support existing research partnerships for mobility and knowledge production with MakSPH.
The Global Capacity Building Programme (GCBP): ''Strengthening leadership and management among local government health managers in Wakiso district, Uganda."
Funding Body: Global Health Partnerships - GHP (formerly Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET).

Health workforce (through enhancing the capacity of community health workers (CHWs) and their supervisors who are mainly nurses).

Health information systems (through supporting the completeness and timely submission of data from CHWs).

Access to essential medicines (through enhancing timely delivery of drugs and other commodities to CHWs).

Health service delivery (through improving performance of CHWs in relation to quality of care, respective care, and timely referral of patients) and governance and leadership (through supporting the supervision and coordination of community health).

Through the partnership weak health systems components in the community has been strengthened. The main outcome of the project is the continual better functioning of the community health system through improved performance of the CHWs.

CwPAMS programme funds health partnerships between UK & eight African countries including Uganda

CwPAMS programme aims:
- improving antimicrobial stewardship, including surveillance
- building antimicrobial pharmacy expertise and capacity
- enhancing infection prevention and control
- improving the use of clinical microbiology and antimicrobial prescribing data to inform clinical decisions
- enhancing the detection and reporting of substandard and falsified antimicrobial medicines
- supporting community pharmacy

Our CwPAMS partnership was established in 2019
July 2024, UK
NTU in collaboration with Buckinghamshire NHS Health Care Trust and Nottingham University Hospitals, hosted a delegation of seven Ugandan colleagues as part of CwPAMS and The Global Capacity Building Programme (GCBP). The three-week visit included activities such as grant writing, conference presentations, and meetings with both institutional colleagues and future partners.

Funding Body: Global Health Partnerships - GHP (formerly Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET).

Total Funds Received from Funder: £50,000

The Global Capacity Building Programme is supported by Global Health Partnerships - GHP (formerly Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET). This programme is implemented by the partnership between Nottingham Trent University and Makerere University School of Public Health, in collaboration with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Wakiso District Local Government, with support from the Ministry of Health Uganda.
June 2024: 3-Day Workshop: "Strengthening leadership and management competencies among local government health managers in Wakiso District,"
More than 50 health managers from Wakiso District in Central Uganda gained invaluable skills during a three-day workshop training on leadership and management. The training, part of a project titled "Strengthening leadership and management competencies among local government health managers in Wakiso District," aimed to improve healthcare service delivery across Uganda.
Leadership and Management Fellowship for Health Managers in Wakiso District, Uganda
Following a 3-day intense leadership and management workshop for health managers in Wakiso District held in June 2024 for the project titled: Enhancing leadership and management of local government health managers in Wakiso District, Uganda, a 6-month online fellowship for these managers was undertaken for continued mentorship. The health managers are in-charges of health centres (IVs, IIIs and IIs) in the district. The fellowship started on 18th July 2024 with an orientation session and introduction of the participants to the Zoom Meetings application, the main platform used for delivering the online engagements.

These sessions were held every second Thursday of the month from 3:00pm to 4:30pm, as proposed by the managers. The sessions were facilitated by experts from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and tackled critical topics suggested by the health managers during the orientation session. These topics included risk management, attendance management, data and information management, and finance management. The sessions were enriched by practical case studies and examples to ensure relevance and applicability to the managers' working environments.

The project is funded by NHS England, for the benefit of the UK and partner country health sectors.

The Eastern Africa (EA) PhD Hub is a strategic partnership between NTU and six Eastern Africa universities in Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya. It aims to strengthen the quality of doctoral supervision through partnership, knowledge exchange through sharing good practice across the regions, and development of a strong mentorship programme.

The Pan-African Mental Health Research Network (PAMHRN) is a collaboration between NTU and universities spanning sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. The focus of the network is to advance mental health care in these regions and in diaspora UK communities.

The PAMHRN aims to work with all stakeholders, providers and communities using contextual and culturally sensitive innovative research approaches that demonstrate impact and transformation for mental health care.

Funders: NTU QR funding (Global Challenges Research Fund)

Lymphoedema in Uganda project began a couple of years ago when Professor Linda Gibson invited Professor Christine Moffatt to visit Uganda and Makerere University's School of Public Health and Nursing Department to discuss lymphoedema and its disease burden in Uganda.

Professor Moffatt heads'The International Lymphoedema Framework' (ILF), an international charity, whose mission is to develop effective Lymphoedema care throughout the world. The LIMPRINT study is an international epidemiology study with 9 countries that has defined the size and impact of the condition on health services and this work in Uganda will be the first low resource country to undertake the work.

The partnership has also been involved in the ERASMUS International Credit Mobility which has led to student placements, joint PhDs, international conference attendance, and student and staff (e.g., Community Health Workers, academic and other university staff) exchanges between the two universities.

2025
1. Arthur Bagonza, Linda Gibson, Lydia Kabiri, Chris Bezalel, Saravu Rama Bhat Narahari, Peter J. Franks, David Musoke, Christine Moffatt. Exploring barriers to accessing treatment for Lymphatic Filariasis through a socio-ecological lens in Buvuma and Napak districts, Uganda. Published: January 9, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012747
2024

1. Musoke D, Lubega G, Twesigye B, Nakachwa B, Obeng Brown M, Gibson L. Enhancing the capacity of community health workers in prevention and control of epidemics and pandemics in Wakiso district, Uganda: evaluation of a pilot project. BMC Primary Care, Published: 17 July 2024, Volume 25, article number 260, (2024)

2. David Musoke, Suzan Nakalawa, Michael Obeng Brown, Grace Biyinzika Lubega, Linda Gibson. Experiences of Research Coproduction in Uganda; Comment on "Research Coproduction: An Underused Pathway to Impact" International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM). 2024. 10.34172/ijhpm.8806

2023

1. Musoke D, Gibson L, Lubega G, Gbadesire M, Boateng S, Twesigye B, Gheer J, Nakachwa B, Obeng Brown M, Brandish C, Winter J, Ng B Y, Russell-Hobbs K. Antimicrobial stewardship in private pharmacies in Wakiso district, Uganda: a qualitative study. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 16, Article number: 147 (2023)

2. Gibson, L., Ikhile, D., Nyashanu, M. and Musoke, D., 2023. Health Promotion Research in International Settings: A Shared Ownership Approach for North-South Partnerships. In: Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3: Doing Health Promotion Research (pp. 263-272). Cham: Springer International Publishing

3. Lubega GB, Musoke D, Nakalawa S, Brandish C, Ng BY, Niyongabo F, Kitutu FE, Gheer J, Winter J, Brown MO, Russell-Hobbs K, Mugisha L, Gibson L. Scaling-Up Interventions for Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship Using a One Health Approach in Wakiso District, Uganda. In: Medical Sciences Forum. 2023; 15(1):7.

2022

1. Musoke, David & Nyashanu, Mathew & Bugembe, Henry & Lubega, Grace & O'Donovan, James & Halage, Ali & Gibson, Linda. (2022). Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low- and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework. Hum Resour Health 20, 4 (2022).

2. Ikhile, Deborah & Omodara, Damilola & Seymour-Smith, Sarah & Musoke, David & Gibson, Linda. (2022). "Some They Need Male, Some They Need Female": A Gendered Approach for Breast Cancer Detection in Uganda. Frontiers in Global Women's Health. 3. 10.3389/fgwh.2022.746498. 0.1186/s12960-021-00701-0.

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Welcome and Introduction

10:00 AM Dami – Welcome to the participants and Introduction to the speakers

Speakers Presentation

10:10 AM - Megan (GHP) How can partnerships not only survive but sustain and thrive in times of uncertainty as the architecture of global health changes and funding streams dry up?

10:25 AM - Mathew: How do we turn what learning has been gained in understanding both the barriers and the opportunities for global partnerships to work together toward becoming more equitable into meaningful practice?

10:40 AM - Toby: What or how must institutions in the Global North / South actively change in light of our learning about how to transform our ways of working?

Discussions with participants

10:55 AM – Dami and all: Moderated discussions with participants and speakers

Closing

11:20 AM - Linda and David: Closing reflections

11:28 AM – Dami: Closing remarks

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Dr David Musoke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health at Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), Kampala, Uganda. He is the President-elect of the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) and coordinates the MakSPH short course in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). He is an Affiliate Member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS).

His research interests include environmental health (including WASH), health systems strengthening, particularly community health workers’ antimicrobial resistance, One Health, and infectious diseases. He has extensive experience in participatory research methods, including photovoice. Dr Musoke has led major international conferences in Uganda and serves as an Academic Editor for several global public health journals. His scholarly work includes over 150 peer-reviewed publications, supervision of more than 50 students, and extensive international academic engagement.

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Dr Albert Luswata is a Senior Lecturer in Ethics and a former Director of the Institute of Ethics at Uganda Martyrs University. He is an AI and faith expert and previously served as Head of the Department of Development Studies at the university’s Rome campus. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar at Boston University.

Dr Albert has played a key role in faculty development and transformative teaching across African universities through projects such as TESCEA and PedaL, where he also served as a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team leader. His research interests include ethics, higher education partnerships, transformative teaching and learning, and gender-responsive pedagogy.

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Dr Walter Odongo is the Director of Research at Nabuin Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Ghent University (Belgium), an MSc in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Makerere University, and a BSc in Agriculture.

With over 20 years of experience, Dr Odongo is an accomplished Agricultural Economist specialising in agricultural markets, value chain development, agri-entrepreneurship, and community engagement.

He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to books, training manuals, and conference proceedings. He has supervised graduate students, mobilised research funding, reviewed for international journals, and led multidisciplinary research teams while fostering strong national and global partnerships.

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Dr Fredrick Mutabaruka is a Senior Lecturer at Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda, and serves as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is based in the Department of Social Sciences.

His research focuses on contemporary social development, with particular emphasis on social problems, gender studies, development studies, governance, and political development.

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UK Global Health Summit 2026 - Global Health Partnerships

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Across three dynamic days the Summit will: Spotlight impactful partnerships driving systemic change Celebrate diaspora leadership in global health Launch a renewed vision for a globally engaged UK health system rooted in equity, innovation, and collaboration Building on the momentum of the UK-Africa Health Summit 2025, this international gathering will unite government leaders, health professionals, diaspora associations, civil society, academia, and the private sector to explore how the UK can contribute to stronger, more equitable health systems worldwide.

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Bond | The international development network

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The 40% cut in UK official development assistance (ODA), following an almost complete termination of US foreign assistance and similar cuts across Europe - including The Netherlands (30%), Belgium (25%) and France (37%) in the past year - has sent shockwaves through the global health and wider development sector.

These decisions have fundamentally altered the international aid architecture with little time for affected countries to develop sustainable financing alternatives.

While these cuts create immediate challenges for lifesaving interventions serving hundreds of millions of people, weakening systems that provide essential interventions across nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene and many others, they may accelerate a long-overdue transformation in how global health partnerships develop and function. This moment may be remembered as one with devastating impacts but also as one that shifted power to local organisations and country-led solutions.

Towards more equitable partnerships

For years, the narrative has been shifting away from traditional top-down development approaches that, even when well-intentioned, undermine power dynamics.

Movements like #ShiftThePower and the increasing focus on the localisation agenda have gained traction as genuine attempts to address historical imbalances. However, progress has been incremental. The current disruption to traditional funding models could accelerate this transformation, propelling local organisations, regional philanthropists and businesses in ODA-recipient countries to fill gaps and claim greater ownership of their health futures.

As international actors navigate this changing landscape, we must be proactive rather than reactive. Instead of merely adapting to reduced ODA budgets, we have an opportunity to fundamentally reimagine partnerships to address shared global challenges.

Interdisciplinary partnerships for an interconnected world

Our current global challenges show how interconnected we have become. Conflict and instability have wide-ranging impacts across countries and regions and almost always affect the health of populations often disproportionately the most marginalised communities worldwide.

The complexity of challenges, such as pandemics, climate change, antimicrobial resistance, migration pressure and urbanisation, demands responses that draw on diverse disciplines, sectors and regional perspectives. We need collaborations that blend public health with economics, environmental science with anthropology, and clinical medicine with community expertise to create truly interdisciplinary partnerships where mutual benefit becomes a reality.

Evidence suggests, however, that equitable partnership remains aspirational in many areas of global health. A recent National Cancer Institute analysis found that only 15% of research from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has first authors from LMICs and just 10% has LMIC-affiliated last authors.

This under-representation reveals structural inequities in who controls research narratives and whose contributions are recognised. Barriers include restrictive authorship criteria which privilege intellectual contributions over data collection, alongside English-language dominance in publications, funding disparities, unequal opportunities for international exposure and visa restrictions.

Global health partnerships, while often presented as inherently beneficial, require critical reassessment. Even when designed to support the countries affected by the health issue in question, they frequently reinforce inequitable power dynamics - sometimes even within collaborations between LMICs. These imbalances in decision-making authority, resource control and knowledge production undermine our collective goals.

The solutions we seek will emerge only from spaces where knowledge, resources and expertise flow equitably in all directions, recognising that each partner holds essential pieces of the global health puzzle. The current disruption offers a rare opportunity to rebuild these partnerships on an equitable foundation.

Embracing a new mindset for lasting change

For global health solutions to achieve lasting positive impact, they must be tailored to specific regional contexts, socio-political realities and cultural landscapes. This requires a willingness for traditional 'experts' to become learners and for those previously treated as 'aid recipients' to be recognised as knowledge holders.

This moment of transition demands we broaden our understanding of what constitutes a valuable contribution. Too often, partnerships are evaluated primarily through financial metrics, overlooking how expertise, historical knowledge, community trust and lived experience are equally critical for successful outcomes. As traditional funding sources recede, recognising and elevating these non-financial resources becomes not just ethically important but strategically essential.

Six principles for transforming global health partnerships

As the international ODA architecture evolves, these six principles can guide the development of more equitable partnerships:

1. Build solutions together
True partnerships elevate all voices - especially local expertise from community leaders, health workers and citizens. In this new landscape, co-creation means ensuring these partners play central roles in shaping priorities, designing approaches, implementing programmes and evaluating outcomes. The ODA cuts create space for local leadership to assert greater influence over health priorities.

2. Cultivate trust through transparency
Building trust requires power dynamics and competing agendas, which may not be visible to all partners, to be acknowledged. As funding patterns shift, open dialogue about resources, constraints and expectations becomes even more important for sustaining collaboration through the uncertainty.

3. Establish equitable authorship and recognition
The current moment offers an opportunity to reset expectations around credit and attribution. As research collaborations adapt to changing funding environments, establishing clear guidelines for equitable authorship across all outputs - academic publications, policy briefs and media - becomes essential for shared ownership.

4. Share knowledge inclusively
Research findings must be accessible to all contributing communities, especially those most affected by the health challenges being studied. Knowledge dissemination should initiate dialogue, gather feedback and adapt approaches, creating cycles of learning even as funding sources change.

5. Centre local expertise
In resource-constrained environments, the insights of local experts - researchers, practitioners, community leaders and citizens -become even more valuable. Listening means being willing to adapt approaches based on contextual understanding which external partners may lack.

6. Invest in future leadership
Young scientists, particularly women, face significant barriers in balancing professional development, family responsibilities and academic advancement. Despite funding constraints, we must prioritise mentorship and leadership development, ensuring the next generation of global health leaders reflects the communities most affected by our world's most urgent health challenges.

This transformation requires both humility and boldness - recognising that successful solutions emerge from collaboration rather than imposition. By building partnerships grounded in mutual respect and country-led decision-making authority, we can address immediate health threats while laying the foundation for a future where health is truly a global good, accessible to all.

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Building authentic partnerships to overcome global health threats | Bond

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Sweeping cuts to global aid have ushered in a crisis, but they are also creating the opportunity to transform how global health partnerships develop and function for the better.

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Principles of Partnership - Global Health Partnerships

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As part of our ongoing approach to quality improvement, we have developed Principles of Partnership to support health partnerships.

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- Linda: its about values, how we treat each other so underpins trust, etc

- Linda Gibson: the codevelopment of grants being built into funding streams

- Linda Gibson: A lot of relationship building is done outside of the formal activities

- Megan Jones: Under the Global Capacity Building (GCB) programme, we had 11 grants of £10K. This is not a lot of money but their is a catalytic momentum which fosters collaboration and gets things started

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Kunle Ogedengbe: Trust could also be built by performing tasks excellently and giving supporting hands to team mates and colleagues.

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In terms of delivery and accountability the leadership model needs to be supportive, giving ECRs opportunity to support, building confidence and skills, getting more experienced to work alongside more experienced, leading from behind

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Linda: work alongside more experienced, leading from behind

Kunle: Yes. Leading from behind is important,

sorry less experienced to work with more experienced.

Megan: THET has always been good at being an approachable funder!

Linda: Toby really interested in the idea of writing our applications in a way that may challenge 'business as usual ' approaches which is a trap we all fall into... so then we reproduce the same old same old. Are funders open to this?

Toby: Well if we embed this, maybe they will learn to be....

Megan: its been interesting that the Scottish Government has mandated a participatory approach to grant-making and within the projects, the first for GHP

Toby Green: At the very least, kick-off meetings led by partners in the South, chairing sessions, and presenting, where the targets are finalised.

Kunle: I think it is better to stay with what works as funders usually tick boxes in thier templates for funding. There can be innovations only that I think this could be discussed earlier with officers in charge from the donor's office. Surprises are not usually expected.

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Linda: A final thought from me: can we think of this geopolitical point as a moment of disruption, perhaps like COVID, where we all adapted?