Eurodad's response to the World Bank consultation on the proposal for a Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Thirty-three organisations from the global south and the global north have signed a statement arguing that the World Bank has not learnt crucial lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic and broader health financing evidence.
In May, the World Bank (WB), in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), published a White Paper outlining a proposal for the creation of a new Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR). The proposal was endorsed by the G20 and the G7 and the WB launched a consultation with civil society to gather feedback on the proposal.
WEMOS and Eurodad, in collaboration with partners, prepared a statement that argues that the proposal suggests that some crucial lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic and from broader health financing evidence have not been learnt. The statement also makes a number of recommendations on governance, private sector involvement and finance that could improve the design of the FIF.
The statement has been endorsed by 33 civil society organisations from the global south and the global north.
Signatories
Organisational endorsements
- ACCESS Coalition
- Accountability Counsel
- ACHEST (African Centre Global Health & Social Transformation)
- Arab Watch Coalition
- Bank Information Center (BIC)
- Both ENDS
- Bretton Woods Project
- Buliisa Initiative for Rural Development Organization
- Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
- Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales DAR
- EKTA PARISHAD
- Global Policy Forum
- Good Health Community Programmes
- Green Development Advocates (GDA)
- Initiative for Health & Equity in Society
- International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
- Jamaa Resource Initiatives
- Just Finance International
- Latindadd
- Little Step Sierra Leone
- Lumière Synergie pour le Développement
- Madhira Institute
- Medico International
- Medicus Mundi Spain (FAMME)
- NGO Forum on ADB
- Observatoire d'etudes et d'appui a la responsabilite sociale et environnementale (OEARSE )
- Oyu Tolgoi Watch
- Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
- Pluralist Legal Clinic
- Policies for Equitable Access to Health - PEAH
- Rivers without Boundaries Coalition (Mongolia)
- Union des Amis Socio Culturels d'Action en Developpement (UNASCAD)
- Viva Salud
Individual endorsements
- Thomas Schwarz, MMI