Guinea-Bissau - Emergency Assistance to Support the Guinea-Bissau Preparedness and Response Plan to Fight the Zika Virus Outbreak

The present Emergency Assistance project is to support Guinea Bissau to implement their Preparedness and Response plan, which aims at strengthening the country capacity to detect and adequately respond to Zika, and other mosquito-borne viral diseases. This funding will complement the efforts of government and other partners to mobilize and involve all sectors, including civil society and communities to develop a coordinated and effective response to the outbreak. The plan has six (6) major components focusing on preparedness, detection, response, monitoring and research. The plan will be jointly implemented in collaboration with key technical and operational partners led by the WHO. In addition, research institutions will actively participate in generating the relevant scientific information and evidence to guide public health response. It will be implemented within a period of one year for a total cost of US$ 2,300,000. Given that other partners will contribute to the financing of this plan, the Banks assistance under this project will be limited to 1 million US$ for the following three (3) components: (i) Strengthening legislation, coordination and social empowerment. (ii) Strengthen prevention and preparedness for timely detection. (iii) Strengthen response to Zika virus and other arbovirus outbreaks.