# Approval of the Secretariat’s Recommendation on Funding from the COVID-19 Response Mechanism

The Board:

1. Notes its decision in GF/B46/EDP06, which requires the Secretariat to recommend tothe Board, for its approval, any COVID-19 Response Mechanism (“C19RM”) awardsexceeding US$45 million, as measured in aggregate by country (not including anyfunding awarded for COVID-19 commodities through fast-track investments orC19RM funding awarded in 2020);
2. Approves the funding recommended for each country, as listed in Table 1 ofGF/B46/ER18; and
3. Delegates to the Secretariat authority to redistribute the overall upper ceiling offunding available for each country among its constituent grants in accordance with thepreviously approved principles under GF/B44/EDP18.