The United Nations System Influenza Coordinator (UNSIC), David Nabarro, and the World Bank are working closely together to ensure coordination across international agencies at the country and global levels. International conferences and meetings serve to monitor the global response, improve coordination, and sustain political commitment to avian flu control. UNSIC and the World Bank are supporting these meeting by jointly reporting on the flows of funds pledged by donors and on the results being achieved, identifying gaps, and resolving conflicts. These reports provide a single integrated set of information, pulling together reports on country programs, technical updates, and reports from donors and agencies involved in the response.
The third status report, Responses to Avian Influenza and State of Pandemic Readiness was discussed at the New Delhi Ministerial Conference on Avian & Human Pandemic Influenza in December 2007. At the conclusion of this conference, the Government of India released A Vision and Road Map to guide vital national efforts to control avian influenza and prepare for the next influenza pandemic, in hope that countries will regard it as a tool for their own planning and program development and use its benchmarks when assessing progress. The Road Map may also be helpful when nations consider other threats to human security stemming from infectious diseases at the animal-human interface. The World Bank and the UN System Influenza Coordinator (on behalf of the UN System), have been asked to help developing countries to make good use of the New Delhi Road Map: national authorities are to be encouraged to adapt the Road Map to their particular circumstances and needs.
The second status report, Responses to Avian and Human Influenza Threats: Progress, Analysis and Recommendations, July - December 2006, was distributed in draft ahead of the Bamako Conference (December 2006). A final version is now available online. Part I, Progress, Analysis and Recommendations, can be downloaded here. Part II, Country Profiles, can be downloaded here.
The World Bank and UNSIC have tabulated the pledges submitted at the Bamako conference. The results are included in the second status report. A draft version of the World Bank's financing assessment Avian and Human Influenza: Update on Financing Needs and Gaps, December 2006, prepared for the Bamako conference, can be downloaded here (Word).
The first joint UNSIC/World Bank progress report, Responses to Avian and Human Influenza Threats: Progress, Analysis and Recommendations, January - June 2006 was discussed at the June 2006 Vienna conference. It includes the first update on the multidonor financing framework based on World Bank polling of donors about the status of pledges and delivery of financing to recipients at the global, regional and country levels up to April 30, 2006. To download the draft of this first financing framework update, which was distributed ahead of the Vienna conference, click here.
To learn more about how international agencies and national authorities are improving the effectiveness of the global response to the avian and human pandemic influenza threats, read the Joint Note from the World Bank and the United Nations about the coordination of assistance to country programs.
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