Operational planning guidance to support country preparedness and response

Overview

Building upon an updated assessment of country risk and vulnerability and the Strategy Update, the Updated Operational Guidelines serves as a practical guide outlining the public health and essential health services measures needed to prepare for and respond to COVID-19. This can be used to rapidly update existing COVID-19 national plans toward a fully collaborative and coordinated response to the pandemic, across the eight pillars of the public health response and a ninth pillar on maintaining essential health services and systems. This is facilitated by the COVID-19 Partners Platform which enables national authorities, UN Country teams and partners to jointly plan for these actions and resource needs, identify funding gaps and monitor progress against national plans.