Equity in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

PMNCH, the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and CORE Group will co-host the third Lives in the Balance Summit: Equity in COVID-19 Response and Recovery. The Summit builds on previous Lives in the Balance summits, which revealed the urgent needs of women, children, and adolescents during COVID-19, and enabled coordinated action by partners and governments to help meet those needs. At this timely and important event, we will: 

• Reflect on how well countries have been able in their national COVID-19 responses to implement equity enhancing strategies to protect the health and wellbeing of women, children, and adolescents, particularly those with the least access to social, economic, and political power; 
• Share lessons, tools, and resources on why focusing on women, children, and adolescents in national COVID-19 responses is key; 
• Collaborate in identifying ways to promote equity and realize the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, including aligning partners for common action around the 7 asks; 
• Act by demonstrating how countries are improving women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health in the context of COVID-19 response and recovery, including making commitments to the COVID-19 Call to Action.