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WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: the global health body “sounded the alarm early, and we sounded it often”.

'Be mindful and vigilant about abuses of power and inequities in power, and to manage that through communications, through openness, through challenge, and through the collective spirit of a partnership.' - Lola Gostelow, Partnership Broker at the Partnership Brokers Association, offers her final th

'It is important to understand what drives organisations' - Butch Meily, President of the Philippines Disaster Resilience Foundation, discusses why it is important for organisations to understand the importance of partnerships and coming together.

'Together we can contribute to the public good' - Elise Buckle, President and Director of Climate & Sustainability, offers tips for achieving effective partnerships.

'Put partnerships at the core of your strategy' - Christina Bennett, Chief Executive Officer at Start Network, discusses key ingredients for future-proofing partnerships.

‘One of the vital ingredients in an effective partnership is creating its own culture' - Lola Gostelow, Partnership Broker at the Partnership Brokers Association, discusses the critical foundations needed in starting a partnership.

Butch Meily, President of the Philippines Disaster Resilience Foundation, discusses the advantage of organisations asking private companies for their products/expertise over cash.

Elise Buckle, President and Director of Climate & Sustainability, addresses the issue of funding partnerships and making them sustainable.

'If you can maximise that joined up space of overlapping interests, that's where the potential of transformation lies.' - Lola Gostelow, Partnership Broker at the Partnership Brokers Association, discusses how organisations can bring together competitors in partnerships by identifying the mutual int

'Collaboration and networking has such a huge multiplier effect that it has convinced most of our companies to work together' - Butch Meily, President of the Philippines Disaster Resilience Foundation, addresses the issue of balancing the interests of competing companies in partnerships.

Elise Buckle, President and Director of Climate & Sustainability, addresses the question: 'How do we ensure global partnerships thrive at a time when, due to COVID-19, people are thinking more locally?'

'It is important that we take the lessons we are seeing everyday in this current crisis so that we can apply them to future partnerships.' - Butch Meily, President of the Philippines Disaster Resilience Foundation.

'Be greedy. Be greedy in your expectations about what partnerships can do, what they can deliver, what they can achieve.' - Lola Gostelow, Partnership Broker at the Partnership Brokers Association, explains the importance of partnerships and offers suggestions on how to prepare partnerships for futu

'Think of partnerships and networks as central to your operating model, not peripheral to your operating model' - Christina Bennett, Chief Executive Officer at Start Network, explains how organisations can begin preparing partnerships for future emergencies.

'Partnerships, when responding to COVID-19, have allowed us to be faster, have allowed us to be more expert in what we do, and have allowed us to be more effective at solving the problems at hand' - Christina Bennett, Chief Executive Officer at Start Network, explains how partnerships have benefited

The Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs, Lena Hallengren: "Now more than ever, it's time to strengthen our international cooperation and show global solidarity" #Covid-19

Germany's health minister Jens Spahn: Future Covid-19 vaccine should be made a global public good and further WHO reform is needed

Dutch health minister Hugo de Jonge: Covid-19: a wake-up call for universal health coverage.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa: The poor will suffer most during COVID-19 pandemic and it would continue to be with us for some time.

President Xi Jinping: We have provided information to WHO and relevant countries in a most timely fashion. We have released the genome sequence at the earliest possible time.