Aim - to have a thorough grasp of who they are, what they do, what they’ve done, and their theory of change
There’s a lot to learn! This is not a scrappy little effective altruist org with a simple mission/not much available info → they have 5 annual reports and they’ve done a lot of amazing stuff
I still haven’t made any flashcards, I’m going to test what I’ve grokked just from actively engaging with the info as I’ve ordered it, condensed it, adding hierarchies etc
Key civil society voice in global health, pandemic preparedness, COVID response
Now has a network of 400+ collaborator orgs, including:
~66% of collaborators are civil service organisations (CSOs), ~33% are African CSOs
Also think tanks, governments, charities, research groups, private sector, media
~70 collaborators in network in first year, now 400+
Theory of change
Agile, non-bureaucratic, rapid pace
Leverage diverse network of 400+ orgs in order to create policy documents
Policy docs are deeply informed by diverse network
Signal boosting - can coordinate across network to spread message(s)
Key organiser of various things, key voice, kind of the org at the middle of this hub-and-spoke model
Led to huge outcomes like (and this is where flashcards will be useful)
Summits
WHO things
Pandemic Fund
They really feel like the adults in the room (vs e.g. little scrappy effective altruism startups). Huge expertise, playing at the very top of the world stage, working with WHO and governments etc. Absurdly high leverage
Also led initiatives like:
COVID ambassadors
Mask drives early in COVID
Getting PPE to frontline workers in Africa. Some absurd figures here like 300 million + PPE items delivered
