Also available in: Español

Author: Lídice López y Alfredo Mejía

Published by: LAC Platform / Icaso

Year: 2020

Type of Document: Case Study

Description:  On January 30, 2020, the WHO Director-General declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. In this context, GF issued guidelines for flexibility in the execution of grants, which allows the use of 5% of existing grants, and created a Response Mechanism to COVID – 19 (C19RM), through which countries could access funding to strengthen, mitigate its impact on HIV, TB and malaria programs and make urgent global improvements in health and community systems in 2020. The LAC Platform and Icaso set out to identify how these resources have been used in the different countries, with emphasis on community responses, in order to share lessons learned and good practices with different actors in the region, and identify gaps in the response.