Strengthening the National Capacity for Pandemic Preparedness and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Fisherman with hat, Kazakhstan.
Strengthening the National Capacity for Pandemic Preparedness and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entity
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $19,202,194
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $5,060,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $34,013,007
The Official Launch of the Pandemic Fund Project in Kazakhstan

Animal Health Security Strengthening for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Children with livestock. India.
Animal Health Security Strengthening for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entities
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $25,000,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $259,100,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $82,000,000

Ethio-Pandemic Multi-Sectoral Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

Ethiopia, Tigray region, Rayazebo District. Man working in a field part of the World Bank funded Sustainable Land Management Program.
Ethio-Pandemic Multi-Sectoral Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entities
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $50,000,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $61,400,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $1,600,000

Cambodia Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

A Cambodian farmer Men Leng, 40, gets her first harvest with her husband, Rethy Chey 54, in Prey Thom village, Reaksmei Sameakki Commune, Aoral district in Kampong Speu Province. Leng is one of 400 landless and land-poor families who received a social land concession from the government under the associated LASED project, funded by JSDF through the World Bank and implemented by Life with Dignity (LWD). Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia.
Cambodia Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entities
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $19,470,124
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $395,207,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $3,249,347

Strengthening National Health Security through the One Health Approach

A young man is getting tested against the COVID-19.
Strengthening National Health Security through the One Health Approach


Background

The $4.5 million Pandemic Fund grant supports a partnership between the Cabo Verde Ministries of Health (MOH), Finance, Agriculture and Environment, national universities, and the World Bank (as the Implementing Entity) to strengthen the country’s national health security through a One Health approach. The grant builds on an additional $2 million in co-financing and $13 million in co-investment from these partners.

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entity
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $4,490,960
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $2,439,529
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $13,463,612

Strengthening Disease Surveillance Systems, Laboratory Capacity, and Staff Skills in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Coordination

Members of the Cooperative Agriculture Maraicher for Boulbi, nurture their fields of vegetables, as they water and hoe the fields in Kieryaghin village, Burkina Faso on November 8, 2013
Strengthening Disease Surveillance Systems, Laboratory Capacity, and Staff Skills in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Coordination

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entities
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $19,349,000
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $18,430,844
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $10,025,206

Strengthening Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response through the One Health Approach

Children looking out on terraced fields. Bhutan.
Strengthening Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response through the One Health Approach


Background

Landlocked in the South Asia region—a region considered one of the global hotspots for emerging infectious diseases—Bhutan is highly vulnerable to disease outbreak threats of pandemic potential. Despite the country’s ongoing health and socio-economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, critical gaps persist in disease surveillance, detection, and coordination response.  

For general inquiries: the_pandemic_fund@worldbank.org

  • Region
    Region
  • Location
    Country
  • Building
    Implementing Entities
  • Funding
    Amount Approved (US$) $4,950,676
  • Funding
    Total Co-financing
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $12,912,908
  • Funding
    Total Co-investment
    (in kind & in cash) (US$)
    $24,153,745

Senegal

Mohamed Konate is a career diplomat who began his career 20 years ago in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Senegal, where he served as Head of the Africa Division (2004–2006) and then as Senior Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Senegal to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris (2006–2011).

Rwanda

Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI is the Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre. He has more than 10 years of technical, managerial, and strategic experience and expertise in the field of clinical and public laboratory medicine with special focus on clinical microbiology, laboratory systems and service strengthening, and global health security. 

Philippines

SECRETARY RALPH GONZALEZ RECTO DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE Ralph Gonzalez Recto is the current Secretary of the Department of Finance (DOF) and Member of the Monetary Board, the highest policy-making body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), representing the government.