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Global UNDP Initiatives for COVID-19 Recovery

UNDP is supporting small businesses and vulnerable groups in multiple countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through measures like business continuity insurance, cash transfers, food distribution, and connecting people to resources. They are also working with governments, citizens, and startups to deliver essential services, combat misinformation, and ensure responses are comprehensive, equitable and prevent future crises.

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Global UNDP Initiatives for COVID-19 Recovery

UNDP is supporting small businesses and vulnerable groups in multiple countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through measures like business continuity insurance, cash transfers, food distribution, and connecting people to resources. They are also working with governments, citizens, and startups to deliver essential services, combat misinformation, and ensure responses are comprehensive, equitable and prevent future crises.

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We are supporting small businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after an

assessment report estimates half could close in the next few months.

In Ecuador our Accelerator Lab is using crowdsourcing to connect the most


vulnerable with food, goods and services.

Afghanistan’s fragile economy and peace process are both threatened by the


pandemic and UNDP is supporting expanded social protection for poor and
vulnerable Afghans, such as pensions for the elderly and public works.

UNDP recognizes the vital importance of small, family owned businesses, and those
who depend on them, so we are working with policymakers to establish business
continuity insurance for hard times.

In the Asia Pacific region, which enjoys a high population of young people, we are


harnessing the creativity and vision of young startups so that the can both weather
these hard times and come up with creative ways to solve the new problems we
face.

And we continue to lobby business and political leaders to establish a universal basic
income and to encourage and extend the flow of remittances, so vital to the global
economy and GDPs of many lower income countries.

In Nigeria, the UN has launched the COVID-19 Basket Fund to boost efforts to


support the country’s national pandemic response, which includes cash transfers
and food distribution to vulnerable groups.

In the Arab states we are working with governments and citizens to deliver essential
services, and fight misinformation.

It will require all of society to limit the spread of COVID-19 and to cushion the
potentially devastating impact it may have on vulnerable people and economies.

We must rebuild trust and cooperation, within and among nations, and between
people and their governments.

UNDP’s support will also help ensure that the responses of individual countries are
comprehensive as well as equitable and inclusive, so that no one is left out and
countries can continue to make progress in achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals. 
While we do this, we must also consider ways to prevent a similar pandemic
recurring. In the longer term, UNDP will look at ways to help countries to better
prevent and manage such crises and ensure that the world makes full use of what
we will learn from this one.

An integrated global response is an investment in our future.

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