The Commonwealth COVID-19 Response Centre is a directory of useful information, data and resources for the governments of Commonwealth countries as well as others who are involved in responding to this emergency in any of our 54 member countries across the world. The information on the Response Centre is being updated all the time. If you have any suggestions for information that could be added here, please contact: [email protected]
UNDP COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
The Tracker monitors policy measures enacted by governments worldwide to tackle the COVID-19 crisis highlighting responses that have integrated a gender lens.
Commonwealth Policy Advice on Sport and COVID-19
Policies and guidelines, exercise/physical fitness advice and the action sport organisations can take to help the community through sport. Contact Commonwealth Secretariat, Sport for Development and Peace team: [email protected]
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Coronavirus Toolkit
The toolkit provides various measures and recommendations that can be adopted by both parliaments and parliamentarians in order to continue to to deliver democracy during a global pandemic. Contact Commonwealth Parliamentary Association: CPA
Commonwealth Foundation COVID-19 special grants
To support national initiatives that engage constructively with government to strengthen relevant institutions, policies and practices as communities and countries seek to recover and rebuild from the pandemic.
WHO/ UN COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to enable all countries – particularly those most vulnerable and at-risk, and with the weakest health systems – to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Contact: Rachel Bridges, Tel: +1 (202) 765 8448.
WFP support for logistics sector
$350 million to support vital aviation, shipping, storage and transport, and engineering services in areas affected by the pandemic. Delivering vital medical equipment, and food supplies to those in need.
African Development Bank – Fight COVID-19 Social Bond
The bond will provide flexible responses aimed at lessening the severe economic and social impact of this pandemic on its regional member countries and Africa’s private sector. Olufemi Terry, Communication and External Relations Department, African Development Bank. Email: [email protected]
Asian Development Bank
The initial package includes approximately $3.6 billion in sovereign operations for a range of responses to the health and economic consequences of the pandemic, and $1.6 billion in non-sovereign operations for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, domestic and regional trade, and firms directly impacted. Contact: David Kruger, Director, Media and External Relations Division. Tel. + 63 2 8683 1884.
GOV.UK Coronavirus Future Fund
Convertible loans of £125,000 – £5 million to innovative companies facing financing difficulties due to the coronavirus outbreak.
WHO Health Alert Messaging Service
To increase access to reliable information, WHO has worked with WhatsApp and Facebook to launch a new WHO Health Alert messaging service. To access the service send the word “hi” to the following number on WhatsApp: +41 798 931 892.
University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians
COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application is a free online course for frontline clinical staff who are caring for critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes a wide range of healthcare professionals in acute care, from many different clinical speciality backgrounds.
Royal College of General Practitioners
Resources to support primary care practitioners in the UK and internationally to deliver front line services to patients around the world.
Global Outbreak and Response Network – GOARN
Network of over 250 technical institutions globally that respond to acute public health events with the deployment of staff and resources to affected countries.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19.
PATH reference materials for COVID-19
PATH is a non-profit organisation supporting the global response to COVID-19, from readying health systems for outbreaks to developing and deploying digital tools, point-of-care tests, drugs, vaccines, and more. Contact PATH
Royal Life Saving Society
The Royal Life Saving Society is a network of 30 member organisations around the Commonwealth. Many of its volunteers would be willing to help in responding to COVID-19 in Commonwealth countries. Contact: www.rlsscommonwealth.org
Kenya’s innovative data response to COVID-19
Seamless flow between data and decision making through a data ecosystem using rapid phone surveys and COVID-19 diaries to fill data gaps. Data is now more accessible and impactful for policy decision making.
Commonwealth Youth COVID-19 Heroes
Youth from all over across the Commonwealth making a difference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sierra Leone – Geospatial data to combat COVID-19
Members of Sierra Leone’s National COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre partnered with leading data science and geospatial organisations to generate timely and accurate population and infrastructure data to enhance the government’s response to COVID-19.
COVIDSafe – Australian Government, Department of Health
The COVIDSafe app helps find close contacts of COVID-19 cases. The app assists Australian state and territory health officials to quickly contact people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.
TraceTogether – Government of Singapore
TraceTogether is a mobile application developed to support existing nationwide efforts to combat COVID-19, by enabling community driven contact tracing in Singapore.
NHS Coronavirus-Status-Checker, UK
A public mobile application for the UK public. It asks questions on experience, symptoms and self-isolating. The data can be downloaded for researchers and decision making.
COVID-19 Island Insights Series
Initiative led by the University of Strathclyde and the University of Prince Edward Island in collaboration with Island Innovation bringing together critical assessments of how specific islands around the world have performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Impact of Covid-19 on the African continent – VIDEO
Luis Franceschi, Senior Director Governance and Peace at the Commonwealth Secretariat and Tomás Pueyo, VP Growth at Course Hero and writer on COVID-19, discuss the course and outcome of the pandemic in Africa.