THE COVID-19 SOLIDARITY RESPONSE FUND IMPACT
In March 2020, the United Nations Foundation and the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation created the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization.
In its first year, the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund helped mobilize more than $242 million from more than 660,000 individuals, organizations, and philanthropies. These resources were rapidly deployed to where they were needed most, helping to provide more than 270 million pieces of personal protective equipment and medical supplies, more than 19 million COVID-19 tests, and critical support to WHO and partners’ efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to the pandemic around the world.
Browse this page for stories of impact from the frontlines of the crisis, conversations with experts, the ongoing work by partners to support WHO’s essential work, and more.
NOTE: From March 2021, the UN Foundation transferred administration of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund to the WHO Foundation. Learn more.
The World Health Organization is at the center of the largest simultaneous global vaccine drive in history, where speed and …
With the support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the UN Refugee Agency in Lebanon is training refugees to sew …
After COVID-19 started spreading in China, Iran emerged as one of the first countries where the virus widely circulated, quickly …
With the support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, Syrian refugee construction workers at the UN Refugee Agency’s Azraq camp …
With the support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the UN Refugee Agency has provided more than 3,140 pregnant women …
The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund supports the world’s most vulnerable during the pandemic through partners like the UN Refugee Agency. In one South …
In September, we passed the grim milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19 globally and numbers continue to rise in …
As COVID-19 continues to surge globally, communities and countries are facing the very real health, social, and economic impacts of …
With help from the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the World Health Organization is supporting the fight against COVID-19 in some …
Final Impact Report: 2024
