The secretary general of the Health Ministry and head of the G20 Health Working Group has said that five recommendations on health funding for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, have been identified by the grouping.
The five recommendations are domestic funding, global funding for low- and middle-income countries, global funding for public good, global funding for dealing with pandemics, and funding from the World Health Organization (WHO).
"We will complete the discussion and explore options on how to prioritize the PPR (prevention, preparedness, and response) components of the pandemic that need to be funded and define the criteria for recipients of funds that can strengthen efforts to find, detect, and respond to future health emergencies," Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha said at the 2022 CSIS Global Dialogue on Wednesday.
Funding for prevention, preparedness, and response to a pandemic must be adequate and sustainable, hence good cooperation is needed between decision makers in the public and the private sector, according to Nugraha.
"Health sector collaboration is critical to addressing potential funding gaps, creating existing multilateral funding mix mechanisms, and exploring new funding mechanisms that can continue to support pandemic prevention and preparedness," he added.
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Furthermore, the G20 countries will identify key elements in the global health architecture related to pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response for funding support.
In addition, the identification of new funding mechanisms, including those related to recipient country criteria and resource allocation, will also be carried out.
The central role of the WHO in the new funding mechanism must also be emphasized and re-emphasized in the future to ensure that the mechanism does not lead to duplication and fragmentation of similar existing mechanisms.
"There is still an unclear relationship between the proposed funding mechanism formed outside the WHO framework and the WHO central coordinating role," Nugraha added.
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