Is this about foreign aid finding potential contributing factors to the severity of the situation (like building standards, emergency response etc)?
Even if relief officials wanted to accept foreign assistance, permission would require approval from the very top, and any such request could easily become mired in a bureaucratic chain of command, said Samia Errazzouki, an expert in Moroccan history and governance at Stanford University. “It’s heavily centralized and controlled, so that means nothing can happen until approval comes from the person who is higher up.”
I think it’s just good old bureaucracy.
AFAIK, when someone says they can’t do x because of bureaucracy, there’s some political reason why the shield of supposed inefficiency needs to be held high.
