Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

Many OECD countries are in the grip of a new surge of COVID infections, hospitalisations, and deaths despite no shortage in supply of highly effective vaccines, especially in protecting against severe forms of the disease.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has hit different countries with varying intensity, responding to the crisis has presented an unprecedented challenge to most governments. In this context, evaluations provide critical tools to support real time sharing of lessons on what is working, what is not, what could work and for whom.

South Africa's efforts to produce vaccines are key to helping the African continent become more self-sufficient in inoculations to combat COVID-19 and many other diseases, the visiting chief of the World Health Organization said Friday.

World leaders launch a call to end the pandemic as a global emergency in 2022 by funding the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator

African policymakers and experts are set to discuss the role of the infrastructure sector in injecting post-COVID-19 recovery, growth and resilience into Africa

The ACT-Accelerator agencies urgently need new funding to scale up their work to develop and deliver the COVID-19 countermeasures

President of the UN Economic and Social Council has implored Africa’s development partners to act on the mantra of cooperation and multilateralism as the continent recovers from the COVID pandemic.

The World Bank Group and the Government of Zimbabwe signed a financing agreement of $6.6 million for the Zimbabwe Covid-19 Emergency Response Project (ZCERP).

Urgent need for African governments to put in place or expand existing social protection systems to fulfill the rights to social security and an adequate standard of living

The World Bank Group has mounted the largest crisis response in its history to help developing countries strengthen their pandemic response.