Dear Tamar,

I would like to inform you about an exciting opportunity.

The World Bank, the Global Financing Facility (GFF), and the Revisiting Health Financing Technical Initiative of the Joint Learning Network (JLN), in coordination with P4H and other partners, are intensifying their collaboration to support countries in their health financing response to COVID-19.

Priority areas include the facilitation of cross-country learning in a community of practice (CoP), the systematic documentation of country responses, and the curation of knowledge on health financing resilience and sustainability. The goal is to help countries emerge from the crisis with more resilient and sustainable health financing.

The organizing team is writing to request your support and kindly ask that you work with your country counterparts to help us identify a dedicated resource person, to engage in the activities developed in the letter attached.

The resource person – who may either be someone from the World Bank or a government official, and who would engage in the following activities:

• Identify high-level officials from the ministries of health and finance and other health financing experts to join our knowledge exchange activities.
• Act as a liaison between the knowledge exchange coordination team and your country.
• Work with World Bank staff and government officials to complete a monitoring questionnaire to track and monitor responses to COVID-19 from a health financing perspective. The questionnaire will be shared shortly.

Hope to hear from you soon and remain available for any further details.

Best,

Volkan