Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) Ukraine Emergency COVID-19 Response and Vaccination Project (P175895) (English)

The main assignments of the Project and its additional financing include: - support of the priority response measures to COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine in terms of further increase of the number of SARS-CoV-2 tests, improvement of registration related to disease cases and infected people contact tracing; - support for the financing of a set of measures that accompany preparation for vaccination and [...] The Project provides for the possibility of retroactive reimbursement of the costs of GoU for the purchase of vaccines Because of the recent emergence of COVID-19, there is not yet conclusive data available on the duration of immunity that vaccines will provide. [...] PBCs are related to the vaccination coverage of priority groups of the population, in accordance with the procedures specified in the Operational Manual, by institutions that have concluded agreements with the NHSU under the program of medical guarantees under the COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Disease Vaccination -CoV-2 ». The NHSU and the WB will jointly consider the terms for the purchase of these [...] The Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade, promotes the joint responsibility of exporting and importing countries for the protection of human health and the environment from the harmful effects of certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides and provides for the exchange of information on such chemical subst [...] In the meantime, following templates and recommendations provided by the ESMF, the HCFs- beneficiaries of the Project will develop the ESMP which shall include general information of social and environmental management in the HCFs involved to the Project.