Delivering a Medium-Term Strategic Plan for The Pandemic Fund Tender, USA - 93355392

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Summary : Delivering a Medium-Term Strategic Plan for The Pandemic Fund

Deadline : 13 Dec 2023

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Financier : World Bank (WB)

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Expression of Interest are invited for Delivering a Medium-Term Strategic Plan for The Pandemic Fund.

Publication Date: 12/5/2023 12:00 AM EST

EOI Deadline: 12/13/2023 11:59 PM EST.

Background

The World Bank is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data research and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

The devastating human, economic, and social cost of COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need for coordinated action to build stronger, more resilient health systems and mobilize additional resources for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR) in International Development Association (IDA) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - eligible countries.

With broad support from the G20 and beyond, in June 2022, the World Bank-s Board of Directors approved the proposal to establish The Pandemic Fund (PF), as a dedicated, multilateral funding mechanism to support critical investments to strengthen PPR capacities at national, regional, and global levels, with a focus on IDA and IBRD countries. The Pandemic Fund was formally established as a Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) in September 2022, announced its first Call for Proposals (CfP) in January 2023, and in July 2023, the Fund-s Board approved funding allocations to 19 projects under the first Call for Proposals aiming to boost the resilience to future pandemics in 37 countries across six regions. At the closing of the first CfP, the Pandemic Fund had received 179 funding proposals, of which 135 were considered “eligible” and sent to the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) for evaluation. The $338 million of grants awarded mobilize over $2 billion in additional resources, adding $6 for each $1 coming from the Fund.

The World Bank serves as The Pandemic Fund-s trustee and hosts the Secretariat. The objective of the Pandemic Fund is to provide a dedicated stream of additional, long-term funding for critical PPR functions in IDA and IBRD-eligible countries, through investments and technical support at the national, regional, and global levels. The Pandemic Fund is expected to support and reinforce capacity building and implementation of PPR consistent with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) international standards and other internationally endorsed legal frameworks, through a One Health approach.

The Pandemic Fund-s Governance Framework states that:

The FIF will add value, along several dimensions, for contributors, co-investors and implementing entities, in the following ways:

First, the Pandemic Fund could help bring additionality in financial resources for pandemic PPR, including through the mobilization of non-ODA resources, for example, from philanthropies. It may be noted in this context that the FIF has already mobilized funding from a philanthropy and other, similar organizations have signaled an interest in contributing.

Second, financing from the Pandemic Fund could be used to incentivize countries to invest more in pandemic PPR, including through blending of multi-lateral development banks (MDB) resources to further increase concessionality and matching of domestic resources.

Third, by bringing together key institutions engaged in pandemic PPR and health system financing, the Pandemic Fund will help promote a more coordinated and coherent approach to pandemic PPR strengthening by linking financing with existing, country-level planning and prioritization processes, thereby strengthening alignment and complementarity of PPR and health system strengthening and reducing transactions costs for client countries. More coordinated support also creates conditions for a more systematic dialogue about domestic financing for PPR. (Para. 5 of the Governance Framework)

The Governance Framework also explains the design of the Pandemic Fund:

The following key principles would underpin the FIF-s design: First, it will complement the work of existing institutions that provide international financing for PPR, drawing on their comparative advantages. Second, it would be designed to catalyze funding from private, philanthropic, and bilateral sources. Third, it would serve as an integrator rather than become a new silo that only furthers fragmentation. Fourth, it would have the flexibility to work through a variety of existing institutions and adjust over time as needs and the institutional landscape evolves. Fifth, its structure would be designed to reflect inclusivity, while ensuring streamlined and efficient governance and operating arrangements. Sixth, it would operate with high standards of transparency and accountability. (Par. 6)

The Pandemic Fund is a collaborative partnership among donor governments, co-investors (countries and Regional Entities that are eligible to receive FIF funding), foundations, civil society organizations (CSOs), and Implementing Entities (IEs), including the World Bank, other MDBs; UN agencies, including the WHO; and other specialized global health institutions. The governing and administrative bodies of the Pandemic Fund are (i) the Governing Board, (ii) the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), (iii) the Secretariat hosted by the World Bank, and (iv) the Trustee. The IEs support implementation of Pandemic Fund-financed projects and activities.

The Pandemic Fund will allocate additional financing where investments are most urgently needed to bolster pandemic PPR for COVID-19 and future pandemics, addressing key capacity gaps at all levels, including but not limited, to the following areas, as established in the Operations Manual:

1. Strengthen country-level pandemic PPR capacity by addressing capacity and capability gaps at country and local level in core domains of the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) International Standards, including disease surveillance systems, laboratory systems, emergency communication, coordination and management, critical health workforce capacities, and community engagement. The Pandemic Fund will also strategically invest in health systems resilience at community and primary health care levels to strengthen synergies between the health system and pandemic PPR capacity.

2. Build regional and global capacity by expanding support to regional and global institutions across multiple domains, including surveillance, reporting and information sharing, shared public health assets, regulatory harmonization, capacity to support public health workforce, and capacity for coordinated development, procurement, distribution and deployment of countermeasures and essential medical supplies.

3. Support technical assistance, analytics, learning and convening. Financial support to countries and regional/global institutions will be complemented by activities to elevate the pandemic PPR agenda, support cross-country learning, and promote collective accountability. This could include peer-to-peer learning, learning events, targeted technical assistance, systematic monitoring of pandemic PPR capacities and domestic spending on pandemic PPR. (Par. 3 of the Governance Framework)



Purpose/Objectives of the Strategic Plan

The Pandemic Fund-s Governing Board has requested that the Secretariat develop a Strategic Plan to guide the Pandemic Fund-s direction and priorities over the medium-term (2024-2026), especially what the Fund should focus on and how to allocate financing to achieve maximum impact. The Strategic Plan will help to define what the Fund-s impact in the medium-term would look like and how to achieve it and how to measure it. It will also enable the Pandemic Fund to articulate more sharply its role and value added in the PPR financing ecosystem, provide visibility to all interested parties on the substance and timing of its funding allocation over the medium-term, and serve as an important input to the resource mobilization strategy. Such a Plan would allow the flexibility to adjust based on lessons learned and the changing external environment.

The Strategic Plan should seek to answer the following questions that surfaced within the Pandemic Fund-s recent Stocktaking Review, with specific recommendations for implementation, including:

• How can the Pandemic Fund fully realize its value potential in the broader pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR) architecture? How can it add value?

• While staying within its defined scope, what should the Pandemic Fund do more of/less of, in terms of the types of activities it supports to strengthen pandemic PPR as well as its support to country vs. regional vs. global needs, in order to maximize value-added, and how best to sequence all of this? How can the Pandemic Fund refine its approach to prioritization to increase representation from "high-risk" geographies, from countries with context-specific needs (e.g., challenging operating environments (COE), fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS), and small-island developing states (SIDS)), as well as applications from groups of countries (multi-country proposals) and/or regional entities on behalf of their member countries? And how to balance this with the Pandemic Fund's goal of catalyzing resources?

• How can the Pandemic Fund provide visibility into its future strategy and priorities to help countries make better informed decisions on how to calibrate the time and effort they put into future calls?

• What can the Pandemic Fund do to integrate its funding

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