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Displaying 15 of about 346 resultsThis policy brief presents adaptation strategies that are being implemented across Europe to strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change. Health system resilience is an essential component of adaptation. The European Union (EU) Commission launched the Next Generation EU COVID-19 Recovery Fund for Member States that include funding a…
This note intends to shift the discussion on pandemic and epidemic risk finance to a practical approach about the benefits of applying a disaster risk finance (DRF) lens to new financial mechanisms as they are developed and deployed. It outlines key trends of financial flows toward outbreak response and identifies relevant emerging initiatives and oppor…
This publication argues that wastewater surveillance is applicable to a variety of pathogens including poliovirus, mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) virus and influenza virus as well as SARS-CoV-2.1 Given the need for a global surveillance network that provides early warnings against potential health threats, the role of wastewater surveillance is incr…
This text provides a scoping literature review of learnings from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic commissioned by WHO to inform operational priorities for future respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness. The learnings are grouped according to WHO’s subsystems for health emergency preparedness, response and resilience. Key takeaway…
This report articulates an alternative approach that addresses pandemic risk at its source and is grounded in One Health strategies of systems thinking, whole-of-society planning, and collaboration across disciplines at the human-animal-ecosystem interfaces as a central path to global health security. The report also outlines an investment framewor…
This analysis argues that investments to build country-level capacities in health security are critical to ensure that the global community is better poised to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the world was not well prepared to respond to an infectious disease threat of this magnitude. Countries across al…
This study identifies 20 key strategies, grouped according to the health systems functions, that have been found as enhancing health systems resilience in the face of COVID-19. This study is targeted at policy-makers and has two aims. First, it provides national policy-makers with evidence from other countries to assess their own responses to COVID-19 a…
The aim of the research paper is to examine the role of anticipatory action in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify best practices and lessons learned from the implementation of anticipatory action measures in response to Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh in May 2020.The recommendations provided in the research paper include:When revising EAP…
This annual report provides an overview of the 26 UNDP-Japan funded projects implemented in 20 countries across Africa totaling USD 40 million. The report covers projects that were approved in 2020, to be implemented from March 2020- March 2021, in addition to the No-Cost extension from prior year. The report covers projects across four thematic ar…
This report discusses how changing climate dynamics have resulted in a confluence of disaster events to which Louisiana local government leaders and their emergency managers have never before had to respond simultaneously: a global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during the 2020 season. Eight cones with challenging, unusual characte…
This Global Influenza Strategy aims to attain the highest possible influenza prevention, control and preparedness to safeguard the health of all people. Its mission is to optimize and align global and national capacities for prevention, rapid detection and response, with the goals being to reduce the burden and impact of seasonal, zoonotic and pand…
This document sets out the preparedness and response plan of the Nigerian Primary Health Care System for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It outlines the planning scenarios, key areas of work and priority activities required for the Primary Health Care (PHC) Sector to quickly scale up its core capacity to prevent, quickly detect, characterize an…
This paper examines disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, and outbreak response in Eastern and Southern Africa. The report assesses the five-year action plan for the Africa CDC strengthening regional public health institutions and capacity for surveillance and response program. The mounting human and economic toll of COVID-19 has brought th…
This paper discusses how over the course of the last year, since the declaration of covid-19 as a pandemic, has tracked funding to low- and middle-income countries that has gone through the multilateral system: humanitarian funding in the United Nations (UN) system and development funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group (WBG…
Governments will not be able to minimise both deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the economic impact of viral spread. Keeping mortality as low as possible will be the highest priority for individuals; hence governments must put in place measures to ameliorate the inevitable economic downturn. In our view, COVID-19 has developed into a p…