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Given the urgent need to step up investments to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to prevent, prepare for, and respond to, future global health threats, and with broad support from the G20 and beyond, the World Bank Group is proceeding quickly to develop a new Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR), working with interested governments, the WHO, and other partners. The goal is to help developing countries become better prepared for future pandemics, by strengthening country, regional and global capacity for PPR. The proposed FIF will complement existing financing efforts and institutions and it will have the flexibility to work through strong implementing institutions, drawing on their comparative strengths. The FIF is expected to bring additional, long-term, dedicated resources for PPR, incentivize countries to increase investments in PPR, and enhance coordination among partners. While ensuring inclusivity, the FIF’s design will be underpinned by simple and agile governance and operating arrangements.
We invite you to review the White Paper and provide your inputs and suggestions, particularly on the issues for feedback listed in the paper.
Please email your inputs and suggestions to us by June 1, 2022 at: Consultations@worldbank.org
Your feedback will be valuable. You can send your written comments in any of the official World Bank languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish).
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Please note that we will not be able to provide written responses to specific inputs. However, your feedback will be incorporated into a paper that we will be preparing in June for the consideration of the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, which will be made public. While we will review all received comments and recommendations, we hope that you will understand that not all comments and perspectives can be incorporated into the paper that we will be preparing for the World Bank’s Board.
We look forward to hearing from you.