The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt essential healthcare services due to barriers to supply and demand. Mathematical models indicate that major service disruptions in Niger could leave 624,400 children without oral antibiotics for pneumonia, 974,800 children...
A Health Response Plan worth 95 billion 880 million FCFA has been drawn up by the President of the Republic with the aim of breaking the chain of transmission of the disease, guaranteeing the best possible care for sufferers, isolating and monitoring people who have...
The proposed Afghanistan COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project aims to respond and mitigate the threat posed by COVID-19 in Afghanistan and strengthen national systems for public health preparedness. The overall objective of this SEP is...
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2020— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $100.4 million grant for the Afghanistan COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project to help Afghanistan take effective action to respond to the threat...
Following a meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired by the Head of State, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on Sunday March 22, Algeria has cut thestate's operating budget by 30%, without affecting civil servants' salaries. Two ministries have been spared the expense...
As of May 12, Russia has the second-highest number of confirmed cases with COVID-19 after the United States. Nevertheless, death rate remains relatively low. According to the latest data 290,000 confirmed cases were registered, more than 70,000 patients recovered and...
Agenda Opening: Manoj Jhalani, SEARO-WHO Purchasing priorities to respond to COVID-19: Inke Mathauer HQ-WHO, TsolmonTsilaajav SEARO-WHO Country experiences: Indu Bhushan NHA-India, Albert Domingo Philippines-WHO Closing: Peter Cowley, WPRO-WHO Objectives Share...
The COVID-19 crisis is impacting every form of government action, including policies and processes around public financial management (PFM). In this blog, we present our common understanding of PFM lessons stemming from the health response to COVID-19 and offer...
Kazakhstan will start building more affordable housing. The new housing program - "5-10-20" speaks for itself. Five percent is the loan rate, 10 percent is the down payment for future housing, and 20 years is the period of the housing loan. So far, these...
