Launch – Following a landmark Public Signing Ceremony for the Pandemic Fund (PF) Technical Cooperation Settlement (“Lowering the Public Well being Affect of Pandemics within the Caribbean via Prevention, Preparedness, and Response” [RG-T4387] Mission) on December 14, 2023, in Trinidad, the Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) and the Inter-American Improvement Financial institution (IDB) proceed to progress in the direction of the beginning of implementation.
CARPHA fulfilled the IDB’s 9 situations earlier than the primary disbursement, reaching full eligibility on March 15, 2024, and is now eligible for the primary disbursement. This milestone achievement in simply 3 months after the signing speaks to the dedication of each CARPHA, the Executing Company, and IDB, the Implementing Entity, towards the regional PF challenge to help the discount of the general public well being influence of pandemics within the Caribbean by constructing pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR) surveillance & early-warning programs (EWS), laboratory programs and workforce capability, regionally at CARPHA and in international locations.
For the reason that signing of the Technical Cooperation Settlement and as a part of the situations earlier than the primary disbursement, CARPHA has achieved the next key outputs:
- (i) the event of the PF Mission Operations Guide, Multi-annual Execution Plan, Procurement Plan, Monetary Plan, and Process for CARPHA’s Monetary Reporting System;
- (ii) emptiness bulletins for 2 tranches of consultants with the next hiring of 5 (Technical Coordinator, Monetary Specialist, Procurement Specialist, Operations Officer and Mission Operations Coordinator) and
- (iii) the institution of the Mission Execution Unit (PEU) and Mission Execution Steering Committee (PESC).
The devoted PEU can be chargeable for execution in keeping with its deliberate timelines, which can be led by Dr. Lisa Indar, the Mission Director (CARPHA’s Director of Surveillance, Illness Prevention and Management Division).
CARPHA, because the lead regional public well being company and an expression of Caribbean Cooperation in Well being, is remitted by its Inter-Governmental Settlement (IGA) to help its 26 CARPHA Member States (CMS) in bolstering nationwide programs and coordinating regional responses to public well being threats. The Company works intently with regional and worldwide businesses and makes use of regional mechanisms, surveillance programs, and networks to coordinate its public well being response work.
In July 2023, the PF Governing Board introduced that CARPHA’s regional entity proposal, entitled ‘Lowering the Public Well being Affect of Pandemics within the Caribbean via Strengthened Built-in Early Warning Surveillance, Laboratory Methods and Workforce Development’ was efficiently chosen for the primary spherical of financing. It was one among solely 19 proposals chosen from over 300 submissions and the one regional challenge. The three precedence areas within the proposal are (i) complete illness surveillance and EWS, (ii) laboratory programs, and (iii) human sources, public well being, and neighborhood workforce capability.
This challenge is anticipated to start implementation in March 2024, beginning with a blended onboarding session. A Stakeholder Assembly with international locations is tentatively deliberate for July 2024.
CARPHA stays devoted to working with the IDB, CARPHA Member States, and the Pandemic Fund to efficiently implement the regional proposal to cut back the influence of pandemics on public well being within the Caribbean.
