Contingency fund for emergencies: 2020 annual report

Overview

The WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) was established in 2015 as a key component of the reforms undertaken by WHO to strengthen its role in emergencies. The unique benefit of the CFE is that it can be used to rapidly deploy WHO and global health emergency workforce assets for control and containment of a disease outbreak or to strengthen the health response in humanitarian crises before other funding mechanisms can be triggered.

In 2020, the CFE enabled WHO to mount rapid and sustained responses to 14 separate emergencies in 13 countries and one global response (COVID-19). A total of nearly US$ 44 million was released.