The Pandemic Fund

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

Two boys stand in a muddy river, gathering water into yellow jugs

Burundi

Enhancing National Capacities for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies through One Health Approach

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

African woman in white shirt, wears glasses and a stethoscope around her neck

Chad

Project to Strengthen the Fight Against Pandemics

Three women in white lab coats put on blue gloves

Congo, Dem. Rep.

Strengthening One Health Preparedness and Response Capabilities Against Pandemics (SOPRAP)

Egypt, Arab Rep.

Egypt's Resilience to Pandemics

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

Fiji

Fiji Health Emergency Inclusive Readiness (FHEIR) Project

Image of a historic city along the water

Georgia

Enhancing early warning systems by using genomic surveillance and One Health approach

Woman in white lab coat conducting experiment with dropper into container

Ghana

Strengthening Systems for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Guyana

Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response (PPPR) Project 2024

White church behind palms

Honduras

Honduras prepared and alert to potential pandemic events with One Health approach

Children with livestock. India.

India

Animal Health Security Strengthening for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Indonesia

Collaborative Approach for Resilient Surveillance and Pandemic Preparedness in Indonesia (CARE-I)

Image of a desert, with one mountain in the distance and two camels walking far away.

Jordan

Pandemic Readiness Enhancement Program in Jordan (PREP-JO)

Fisherman with hat, Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan

Strengthening the National Capacity for Pandemic Preparedness and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Nurse wearing a white bends down to a child and makes the motion to open their mouth, with a liquid dropper in one hand

Lebanon

Using the One Health Approach to Drive Resilience and Recovery

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

Nicaragua

United in One Health to Address Future Pandemics

Young girl looks up from a book and smiles into the camera, wearing a white and blue uniform

Pakistan

Pandemic Preparedness and Response through Operationalizing One Health Approach

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

Philippines

Resilient Philippines

Woman in a white lab coat and N95 mask turns on water

Rwanda

Strengthening Pandemic Prevention & Response Through One Health Approach

Samoa

One Health Pandemic Preparedness and Response (OH-PPR)

Person in full PPE stands outside a home, putting on their face shield

Sierra Leone

Enhancing capacity for pandemic prevention, preparedness, detection, and response

Closed farm stand with South African flag painted on the side

South Africa

Building a Resilient Future: Strengthening Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response through One Health Approach

Two women stand in nurses uniforms, learning over and writing into an administrative book

Sri Lanka

One Vision, One Shield: Sri Lanka's Integrated One Health Pandemic Preparedness & Response

Project

Suriname

Public Health Emergency Response Effort

Woman in a white lab coat looks into a microscope

Tanzania

Strengthening Collaborative and Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response for Enhanced Epidemic and Pandemic Prevention, Detection and Response

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

Black and white image, and man and woman farming

Trinidad and Tobago

TT ONE LAB+: Strengthening Laboratory Capacity for One Health Surveillance in support of pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response

Tunisia

Implementing Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention, and Response (PPR) in a One Health Approach

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

Latin America & Caribbean

Strengthening Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Emerging Health Threats in the Eastern Caribbean

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

South Asia

Enhancing collaborative surveillance and diagnostic readiness for pandemic preparedness and response in South-East Asia Region

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 (PROTECT)

Africa

Strengthening One Health Disease Surveillance and Response in Southern Africa – A Strategy Against Climate-Driven Disease Outbreaks

Africa

Strengthening One Health-based PPR in the Greater Virunga Landscape

Africa

Preparedness for Pandemic Response (PREPARE)

Laboratory specialist working on avian influenza at a renovated human health lab.

Europe & Central Asia

Pandemic Preparedness and Response through a One Health Approach

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