Lessons in Multilateral Effectiveness: COVID-19

The Mulitlateral Response to COVID-19

MOPAN is conducting research on the effects of COVID-19 on mulitlateral oranisations during the first year of the pandemic. The research explores the obstacles organisations faced in responding to the needs of host countries during the crisis, supporting and constraining factors in building a better co-ordinated response for emergency needs. The findings will be published in a study, part of the Lessons in Multilateral Effectiveness series in 2023.

In advance of UNGA77, MOPAN produced a report overview highlighting lessons and key policy considerations. The overview of the MOPAN study, More Than the Sum of its Parts? The Multilateral Response to COVID-19 is available for download here.

Additionally, MOPAN is producing a synthesis, using the MOPAN assesments of six United Nations organisations (undertaken in 2020-21), which looks at MOs have co-ordination and response to the pandemic and the role of co-ordination as MOs seek to build back better. Organisations include: 

• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)