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    Pandemic Fund eyes $2B funding target to kick-start new strategic plan

    The $2 billion target will be crucial, albeit still small, to meet the huge demand for funding. In its second call for proposals that recently closed, the Pandemic Fund received funding requests of over $4.5 billion covering 140 countries.

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 27 May 2024

    The Pandemic Fund hopes to raise an additional $2 billion over the next two years, an ambitious but critical target, as it launches a new five-year, medium-term strategic plan. Securing the money is crucial to addressing critical gaps in pandemic preparedness globally.

    “We already raised $2 billion in the first year, and now we're asking for $2 billion more [for our short-term pledging moment] to help bridge the needs that we have until we get on to a more sustainable financing pathway,” Priya Basu, executive head of the Pandemic Fund secretariat, told Devex ahead of the World Health Assembly underway in Geneva.

    Established in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the Pandemic Fund was created as a dedicated financing mechanism to help strengthen countries’ pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, or PPPR, capacities, filling a gap in the global health architecture.

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      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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