Projects

The Pandemic Fund’s Governing Board has approved grants under its first round of funding allocations, aimed to boost resilience to future pandemics in 37 countries across six regions. The selected 19 projects will receive funding to strengthen disease surveillance and early warning, laboratory systems, and health workforce.

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Single-Country Projects

Children looking out on terraced fields. Bhutan.
Bhutan
Strengthening Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response through the One Health Approach
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
Burkina Faso
Strengthening Disease Surveillance Systems, Laboratory Capacity, and Staff Skills in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Coordination
A young man is getting tested against the COVID-19.
Cabo Verde
Strengthening National Health Security through the One Health Approach
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
Cambodia Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
Ethiopia, Tigray region, Rayazebo District. Man working in a field part of the World Bank funded Sustainable Land Management Program.
Ethiopia
Ethio-Pandemic Multi-Sectoral Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
Children with livestock. India.
India
Animal Health Security Strengthening for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Fisherman with hat, Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan
Strengthening the National Capacity for Pandemic Preparedness and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Private company employees pack pharmaceuticals.
Moldova
Improving Pandemic Preparedness and Response by Strengthening Human Resources, Enhancing Surveillance, and Advancing Lab Systems
Sheep are still the main livelihood in Selenge Aimag, Mongolia. Once a year the sheep are shorn. A big task with a pair of scissors, the whole family and neighborhood get involved while children play around.
Mongolia
Strengthening Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response through One Health
A ward in Pokhara Regional Hospital. Nepal.
Nepal
Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness for Early Detection
A Pulvi-mixer at work on the Paraguari-Encarnacion section of the Asuncion-Encarnacion Highway in Paraguay. Both the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), have helped to provide the foreign exchange needed to rebuild this important highway. October 1965
Paraguay
Strengthening Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
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Suriname
Public Health Emergency Response Effort
A street vendor waving protective masks to traffic users in the Djidjolé neighborhood in Lomé, Togo, Friday, May 15, 2020. The Togolese government declared a state of health emergency on 1 April 2020 to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
Togo
Health Emergencies Preparedness and Response Strengthening
The World Bank-funded Village and Neighborhood Development Project (VNDP) aims to build capacity in marginalized communities through a community-driven development (CDD) approach. In Tubas, the community (through the project's Joint Service Council) bought a excavator/backhoe (at a price USD 84,000) that now services nine villages. It is used to dig holes for olive trees, and to build access roads which makes it easier for farmers to get to their fields even during the rainy season. Here, farmer Moa
West Bank and Gaza
Strengthening Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
Plowing the fields
Yemen
Pandemic Preparedness and Response Project
Irrigated wheat fields at Huntley Farm, which is owned and operated by Zambeef. It includes 4,500 hectares of cropped land, includedig 60 hectares of wheat fields. It also includes poultry houses, a dairy, a dairy processing facility, an abattoir, a flour mill, egg production and a transport facility with trucks. 22,000 chickens are slaughtered daily, and 150-200 cattle per week. There are 160,000 laying hens.
Zambia
Multisectoral Pandemic Preparedness and Response Project

Multi-Country Projects

View from a UN helicopter in Mirebalais, Haiti, on November 7, 2012.
Latin America & Caribbean
Reducing the Public Health Impact of Pandemics through Strengthened Integrated Early Warning Surveillance, Laboratory Systems, and Workforce Development
Wilfred Jurado Guaimaral works high on a mountainside on his farm, growing passion fruit in the township of La Paz, Colombia on January 12, 2015.
Latin America & Caribbean
Pandemic Response Optimization Through Engaged Communities and Territories
Laboratory specialist working on avian influenza at a renovated human health lab.
Europe & Central Asia
Pandemic Preparedness and Response through a One Health Approach