COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan - Operational Planning Guideline

Overview

The WHO COVID-19 Strategic preparedness and response plan (SPRP) 2021 invites national authorities to update COVID-19 national plans to incorporate lessons learned throughout 2020, and to anticipate and prepare for the challenges of 2021, including the need to prepare all health systems to safely and equitably implement new COVID-19 tools such as vaccines. It is also intended for use by UN Country Teams and key partners to develop or update their 2021 COVID-19 multiagency plans with and in support of national authorities. The SPRP 2021 also describes the regional and global technical and operational platforms that will continue to support countries throughout 2021 to implement national action plans, to accelerate equitable access to new COVID-19 tools, and to undertake research and to innovate.

This Operational planning guideline was developed to accompany the SPRP 2021, to provide countries with practical, high-level actions under each of ten preparedness and response pillars that can be adapted as appropriate and implemented at national and subnational levels in order to achieve the SPRP 2021 six strategic objectives