Board Decisions

GF/B45/EDP17

Approved by the Board on: 02 September 2021


Approval of the Secretariat’s Recommendation on Funding from the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (Mali, Mozambique and South Africa)

The Board:

  1. Notes its decision in GF/B44/EDP18, which requires the Secretariat to recommend to the Board, for its approval, any COVID-19 Response Mechanism (“C19RM”) awards exceeding  US$35  million,  as  measured  in  aggregate  by  country  (not  including  any  funding  awarded  for  COVID-19  commodities  through fast-track  investments  or C19RM funding awarded in 2020);
  2. Approves  the  funding  recommended for  each  country,  as  listed in  Table  1  of  GF/B44/ER16; and
  3. Delegates  to  the  Secretariat  authority  to  redistribute  the  overall  upper-ceiling  of  funding available for each country among its constituent grants in accordance with the previously approved principles under GF/B44/EDP18.

Budgetary Implications

This decision does not raise new, material budgetary implications for operating expenses.