World Health Organization – Global Health Cluster

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, the World Health Organization has played a key role in the international response in humanitarian settings through its COVID-19 Task Team (TT). The role of the TT includes understanding and supporting the response needs for countries, health clusters and response agencies. In August 2020, the GHP supported the TT by performing a study in humanitarian settings to understand gaps or challenges in contextualizing and the operational challenges for COVID-19 response faced by front-line providers, as well as to capture good practices or innovations that have been developed. This study was completed in some of the world’s most challenging settings: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh; Burkina Faso; Chad; Iraq; North Eastern Nigeria; and Yemen. Results from this study have since been used by the WHO and by country leaders to guide their COVID-19 response.