Recommendation 4

We believe the FCDO should: • recognise that the eradication of the pandemic everywhere is an integral part of resolving the threat anywhere and therefore switch its financial support for Covid-19 vaccines, therapies and tests voluntarily from its ODA pot to other budgets (thereby freeing up resources for more frontline activity on secondary impacts in developing countries) • re-commit to its ongoing programmes and provide new funding for the Covid-19 response—in particular in relation to secondary impacts—from ODA, freed up from Covid-19 vaccine R&D, rather than allowing the transfer of scarce resources from existing programmes, especially those tackling other diseases • use its significant leverage as leading development actor in many areas (gender equality, disability inclusion, poverty alleviation) to lead an inclusive and transparent approach by the donor community (both bilateral and multilateral), • put local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their partner International NGOs at the heart of the global Covid-19 response as they are closest to end-user communities and benefit from existing relationships of trust and confidence. (Paragraph 91) 36 Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings)