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2020 Global Report of the UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office © 2021 UN MPTF Office. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced by any means without written permission, except when citing and/or reposting a copy of this PDF document with appropriate attribution. Sources: Unless noted, all information and data are courtesy of the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTF Office). The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations, affiliated agencies or Member States. The COVID-19 MPTF Global Report CONTENTS Foreword 3 PART I 4 2020 Global Context 5 Operations and Governance 6 Highlights of 2020 Fund Programming and Results 9 Early Lessons and Evaluability Assessment of the COVID-19 MPTF 18 PART II 21 SEF Pillar 1: Health First – Protecting Health Services and Systems during 21 the Crises SEF Pillar 2: Protecting People – Social Protection and Basic Services 58 SEF Pillar 3: Economic Response and Recovery – Protecting jobs, small 91 and medium-sized enterprises, and vulnerable workers in the formal economy SEF Pillar 4: Macroeconomic Response and Multilateral Collaboration 107 1 The COVID-19 MPTF Global Report PILLARS SEF Pillar 1: Protecting Health Services and Systems during the Crises Belize Georgia Lao PDR A Moldova Cambodia Guatemala Lao PDR B Morocco Comoros Guinea Lesotho Peru Côte d’Ivoire Honduras Madagascar Papua New Guinea El Salvador Jamaica Malawi Tajikistan Eswatini Kosovo Maldives Tokelau The Gambia Kyrgyzstan Mauritania SEF Pillar 2: Protecting People – Social Protection and Basic Services Armenia Eswatini Jamaica Senegal Bhutan Federated States of Kenya Timor Leste Micronesia Bosnia Kiribati Tunisia Ghana Cabo Verde Kosovo Tuvalu India A Democratic Republic of Maldives Uruguay Congo India B Mongolia Uzbekistan El Salvador Indonesia Nicaragua Viet Nam SEF Pillar 3: Economic Response and Recovery – Protecting jobs, small and medium-sized enterprises, and vulnerable workers in the formal economy Argentina Costa Rica Nepal Sri Lanka Armenia Djibouti Sao Tome and Principe A Vanuatu Bhutan Fiji Sao Tome and Principe B Zimbabwe Bolivia Myanmar Solomon Islands SEF Pillar 4: Macroeconomic Response and Multilateral Collaboration Cambodia 2 The COVID-19 MPTF Global Report FOREWORD by the UN Secretary-General’s Designate for the COVID19 Response and Recovery Fund t has been a year since the UN Secretary-General launched the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund Ito help countries cope with the social and economic impacts of the pandemic. Since its inception in March 2020, it has financed 87 programmes across 80 countries with the support of 21 donors. Over 50 of these programmes commenced within eight weeks of the Fund’s launch. The Fund has served as a showcase of UN reform. It has brought 24 Agencies, Funds, and Programmes together to help countries cast a wide and inclusive net of protection and support. It has also grown partnerships with Member States, civil society, and private sector. Through its Solutions Catalogue, a pipeline of 206 shovel-ready and urgent programmes derived from countries’ Socio-economic Response Plans, the Fund created an invaluable vehicle Jens Wandel for further communicating urgent needs on the ground to potential contributors and collaborators. in Belize, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Funded programmes also assisted millions of women and girls by In the face of lockdowns and disruptions to supply chains, assuring their access to quality healthcare, safe spaces, travel, services, and logistics of all kinds – the Fund extended and services, as well as enhanced livelihood opportunities. support to millions most at risk of being left behind. Its For instance, in Malawi, the joint programme supported the strong ‘Leave No One Behind’ (LNOB) focus expanded the access of 256,282 women to quality maternal and neonatal inclusivity of national safety nets. In Ghana, for instance, health services, such that 88.9% of pregnant women, the UN provided technical advice to expand the Ghana including adolescents, attended all of their scheduled Productive Safety Net Programme, which supported 1.4 antenatal care visits. million extremely poor families, including people with disabilities, through an emergency double payment with Innovation and learning have underwritten almost all Fund a top-up. A further 150,000 vulnerable people, including contributions towards UN reform, gender equality, and the orphans, the homeless, and people with disabilities, received principle of LNOB. Joint programmes helped countries close a temporary cash transfer scale-up, via a new mobile money the digital divide in healthcare and education provision so payment modality. In Indonesia, the programme helped the that these services could have a greater reach than ever government expand social protection, extending it to over before. Funded programmes created digital payments 30 million households as well as marginalized populations. systems, tele- and mobile-healthcare, and digital applications Further, financial and digital innovations advanced gender- to link farmers and vendors to markets, and they helped responsive social protection. Meanwhile in Timor-Leste, the formal and informal businesses enter the digital economy. programme helped expand the government’s COVID-19 Because of these interventions, children were able to learn, social cash transfer scheme, which reached 313,398 low- businesses ran, and healthcare reached even the most income households – 98% of all eligible households in the marginalized of people and communities. For example, country and 20% of which were female-headed. It was in Senegal, the roll-out of a national radio programme on estimated that the programme in India, which supported the literacy and math reached 652,960 children. The programme efforts led by the government to meet the immediate needs also provided adapted learning devices for children with of approximately 3.3 million vulnerable and unemployed visual and hearing impairments. A programme in Mongolia, people, could, over the long-term, eventually benefit up to which also had a focus on education, used online interactive 100 million people. learning to reach 149,161 children, teachers, and caregivers to assure equal access to education. Meanwhile, a These are a few brief examples of how, with a strong LNOB programme in the Maldives commenced with the intention lens, the Fund was able to help grow government social of digitalizing and streamlining social services and creating protection programmes that addressed poverty and meet a unified platform for national care, with a special focus on the needs of vulnerable people. Across the board, targeted women and children. assistance gave migrants, refugees, the elderly, ethnic and indigenous communities, and people with disabilities the The results in this annual report speak volumes for the support they needed to stay safe and to operate in their effectiveness of the UN System coming together under communities with dignity, purpose, and security. the framework of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund - a vehicle for Development Emergency Response. The Fund worked to ensure its entire portfolio was gender The Fund has helped countries address the pandemic while mainstreamed. It stood-up critical results at a time when putting in place steppingstones towards a more equitable women were faced with rising unemployment and rates and sustainable future. These outcomes matter. They matter of violence and were shouldering ever heavier burdens as for right now as we fight and emerge from the COVID-19 caregivers and first responders. The Fund helped make sure pandemic, and they will continue to matter during the that women working on the front lines had the supplies and Decade of Action, as we work to build the ‘World We Want.’ training they needed to safely do their jobs, for instance 3 The COVID-19 MPTF Global Report PART 1 4 The COVID-19 MPTF Global Report 2020 Global Context his past year, the world faced a once-in-century event With regard to healthcare, a WHO survey on hospital health precipitated by the corona virus disease (COVID-19) systems in 105 countries from March to June 2020 showed pandemic. By 12 March 2021, some 119 million people that almost 90% experienced disruption to their health T 1 were infected globally and 2.6 million had died. Overall, services, with developing countries most impacted. The the direct and indirect costs of the pandemic have been most frequent disruptions were in the areas of outreach profound, with higher levels of adverse impacts among and facility-based services for non-communicable disease the most vulnerable countries and people. Ultimately, diagnosis and treatment, family planning and contraception, the international community finds itself at a place where treatment for mental health disorders, and cancer diagnosis deep collective action with global solidarity is required to and treatment.11 The ability to access health systems was at simultaneously salvage global socio-economic security and an all-time low for care.12 public health. Restrictions on global travel have limited the movement of The economic impact of the pandemic on the global people fleeing places of conflict and escaping from human economy is represented by the difference between actual rights abuses.13 COVID-19 has also impacted on internal economic performance, measured by gross domestic migration. As people began to return from the cities to their product (GDP), and potential output, or the maximum rural areas, many brought the virus with them, raising the amount an economy could produce at full employment, infection rate in places with less economic development. referred to as the output gap. The International Monetary This could also mean fewer domestic remittances, leaving Fund (IMF) estimates that the loss in economic output many rural families without an important income source as represented by the GDP output gap among major advanced has occurred in Africa and elsewhere.14 economies, which as a group account for approximately 60% of global GDP, would be -3.6% in 2020, or that the Education has also been heavily impacted.