Developing Countries: Coronavirus

(asked on 2nd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2020 to Question 76829, how much of the £774 million has been disbursed to multilateral institutions to date.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 22nd September 2020

The £774 million so far committed to combat Covid-19 and to reinforce the global effort to find a vaccine includes funding to multilaterals. Below is a table of the breakdown of this funding, with funding to multilaterals in bold. Of this total, all funding to multilaterals - UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and the WHO - totalling £145 million, has been disbursed.

Institutions

Amount (£ million)

AU African Union Covid19 Response Fund

20

DEC

10

Expertise & misc. support

6

Red Cross (IFRC /ICRC/Nat Soc)

55

NGO support

20

UNFPA

10

UNHCR

20

UNICEF

20

UNICEF (Education Cannot Wait)

5

UNILEVER coalition

50

WFP

15

WHO

75

FIND

23

Wellcome/Gates Foundation/ Mastercard Therapeutics Accelerator

40

CEPI

250

Joint Initiative for Epidemic Preparedness / Wellcome Trust

5

IMF Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust

150

GRAND TOTAL

774

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