To offer urgent support for COVID-19 management as well as development of the post-outbreak interventions.

To offer urgent support for COVID-19 management as well as development of the post-outbreak interventions. The request is based on the global pandemic situation on COVID-19 and WHO Country Office involvement in the process of public health emergency preparedness and response activities, supporting main counterpart Ministry of Health,Labour and Social Protection in such areas as: coordination and incident management, clinical surveillance,case management and patient pathway in the system, clinical case management, as well as infection prevention and control activities as critical component for COVID-19 prevention. The extraordinary committee for public health emergencies chaired by prime-minister decide on intersectoral involvement for COVID-19 prevention and management where WHO technical coordination and guidance role is crucial. Due to the globally declared emergency, the project focused on a new set of activities with targeted actions on COVID-19.

The main activity of UNDP withing the current extensed stage of the project is to procure health equipment (PPEs, ventilators, etc) focusing on priorities from MHLSP and COVID-19 response.

In 2016, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and UNDP, on behalf of the UN Agencies,signed the Standard Administrative Arrangement that enabled the Participating UN Organizations (WHO,UNDP, UNICEF) to initiate the “Moldova: Contribution to the Confidence Building Measures Program in Transnistria – Health Sector, Phase 2” with an initial end date of 30 April 2019, which was later extended to
31 March 2020.
In the view of the global pandemic situation on COVID-19 there is an agreement between the donor- SDC, and implementing partners- State Chancellery, WHO, UNICEF and UNDP to amend the current project in order extend the project duration as well as introduce new actions and funding.
This initiative for amendment is initiated by the project donor – SDC and comes to offer urgent support for COVID-19 management as well as development of the post-outbreak interventions. The request is based on the global pandemic situation on COVID-19 and WHO Country Office involvement in the process of public health emergency preparedness and response activities, supporting main counterpart Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection in such areas as: coordination and incident management, clinical surveillance,case management and patient pathway in the system, clinical case management, as well as infection prevention and control activities as critical component for COVID-19 prevention. The extraordinary committee for public health emergencies chaired by prime-minister decide on intersectoral involvement for COVID-19
prevention and management where WHO technical coordination and guidance role is crucial. Due to the globally declared emergency, the projects has a new set of activities with targeted actions on COVID-19.

Within the “Moldova: Contribution to the Confidence Building Measures Program in Transnistria – Health Sector, Phase 2” Joint Programme, UNDP aims to procure health equipment (PPEs, ventilators, etc) focusing on priorities from MHLSP and COVID-19 response.