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The Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund is now over a year old. It was launched on March 13, 2020 to raise money for the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners, including the African Union and the World Food Programme, as they respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This fund is particularly useful for speedy pandemic response because it’s entirely flexible; in other words, a donor doesn’t get to decide the specific location or type of program where their donation will be used. Overall, the money is supporting Covid response in varied ways. To give a few examples, it’s funding EMT training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It’s delivering…