Philippines COVID-19 Emergency Response Project Additional Financing

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The Additional Financing (AF) will form part of an expanded health sector response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will enable the Philippines to continue implementing public health measures rolled out with the support of the parent project and to roll out vaccines to strengthen a multi-layered response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The AF will contribute to affordable and equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccines. The AF will also help ensure effective vaccine deployment in the Philippines through enhanced vaccination system strengthening and further strengthen preparedness and response activities under the parent project. The AF will finance procurement of vaccines, while the GOP will finance preparedness and delivery of vaccines.The AF will include the following components and sub-components:Component 1: Strengthening Emergency COVID-19 Health Care Response Sub-component 1.1. Provision of medical and laboratory equipment and reagents Sub-component 1.2: Provision of medical supplies, including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, and ambulance Sub-component 1.3: Enhancing isolation/quarantine facilities Sub-component 1.4: Deployment of COVID-19 vaccines (financed by counterpart funding from the Government of the Philippines)Component 2: Strengthening laboratory capacity at national and sub-national level to support Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Component 3: Implementation Management and Monitoring and EvaluationComponent 4: Contingency Emergency Response Component The project directly contributes to implementation of the first pillar of the World Bank Group Country Partnership Framework (CPF) FY20-23 on Investing in Filipinos to improve human capital development. The AF is critical for the country to safely reopen the economy and resume economic and social development activities that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The AF is also a key enabler for the GOP to implement and achieve results across the other pillars areas of the CPF.