• 21 July 2021 – Multiple countries: UNOPS is working with the government of Japan to strengthen national resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific region through the repacking of more than 11 million Japan-donated doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility.
• 8 March 2021 – Multiple countries: Using $4.8 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring critical medical equipment – including portable ultrasound scanners, ambulances and mobile x-ray equipment, among other items – to support COVID-19 response efforts in Belize, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
• 1 March 2021 – Multiple countries: UNOPS is supporting COVID-19 response efforts in Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, the State of Palestine, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, using more than $18 million in funding from the government of Japan. To enhance essential health services, UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies, procuring mobile health clinics, and procuring and installing solar panels to provide a steady supply of renewable energy. UNOPS is also reconstructing primary healthcare centres as well as rehabilitating and equipping intensive care units, medical wards and a laboratory, among other activities.
• 6 October 2020 – Multiple countries: UNOPS is partnering with the Asian Football Confederation to support COVID-19 relief efforts in Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal. As part of this, UNOPS is delivering COVID-19 preparedness items to help pupils and teachers in Kachin State, Myanmar return to schools safely, providing personal protective equipment and handwashing stations to the police in Nepal, and procuring and delivering personal protective equipment for the Crisis Centre of the Ministry of Health and handwashing units for public health facilities in Indonesia.
• 7 August 2020 – Multiple countries: With $2 million in funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency, UNOPS is procuring several items to support COVID-19 response. For the government of Cambodia, lab supplies for COVID-19 testing are being procured. For the government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, hospital beds and other essential equipment are being procured to treat people who are critically ill with COVID-19 in hospitals in the country's capital and provinces. For the government of Viet Nam, thermal imaging scanners are being procured for use in the country’s major airports.
• 7 August 2020 – Multiple countries: With more than $17 million in funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency, UNOPS is procuring medical supplies and equipment – including personal protective equipment and COVID-19 test kits – for the governments of Cambodia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam, as well as the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which will support COVID-19 response efforts in a further 12 countries in Africa. UNOPS is also providing training on the equipment. Read more here. 
• 21 April 2020 – Multiple countries: UNOPS is working with the Universal Postal Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations, to procure and distribute personal protective equipment for postal workers in least developed countries. Postal workers are critical to supply chain networks during this pandemic, but can be highly exposed. The first phase of the response will deliver masks, gloves and sanitizer to the national postal services of 37 countries.
• 7 April 2020 – Multiple countries: UNOPS has been asked to provide distribution services for the rapid and safe delivery of favipiravir, known commercially as Avigan, for clinical trials in countries which request supplies from Japan. The government of Japan is providing $1 million in funding. UNOPS support to procure and transport favipiravir does not in any way imply any endorsement of favipiravir as a treatment. Read more.

• 11 July 2022 – Zambia: Using $6.8 million in funding from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNOPS is working with Zambia's Ministry of Health to procure and install six oxygen plants as part of the government's COVID-19 response.
• 24 June 2022 – Mali: To support COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS is procuring, installing and equipping modular clinics, constructing and equipping a lab, and installing cold room containers, using nearly $12 million in funding from the Islamic Development Bank.
• 16 June 2022 – Togo: With funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is procuring vehicles – including a refrigerated truck – for the country's regional medical depots to support the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
• 28 February 2022 – Zimbabwe: With funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring ambulances and COVID-19 testing equipment for health centres in Zimbabwe's Manicaland Province. This will support improved access to COVID-19 testing facilities and make it easier to transfer patients in hard-to-reach areas to referral centres.
• 2 December 2021 – Democratic Republic of the Congo: UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies for testing laboratories in Kinshasa to help increase COVID-19 testing capacity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, using $450,000 in funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency.
• 17 November 2021 – Zambia: To support COVID-19 response efforts in Zambia, UNOPS is procuring and installing an oxygen plant for the Kitwe Teaching Hospital, using $1.3 million in funding from UNICEF. UNOPS will also train operators on the basic maintenance and operation of the oxygen plant.
• 15 August 2021 – Kenya: UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies for Kitengela Sub-County Hospital to support COVID-19 response efforts in Kajiado County, Kenya, using funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency.
• 31 May 2021 – The Gambia: To support COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS is procuring 80 ambulances with $3.1 million in funding from the government of The Gambia.
• 16 March 2021 – Mozambique: To support Mozambique's COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS is procuring COVID-19 test kits and laboratory equipment, with a grant of almost $700,000 from the World Bank's International Development Association.
• 15 February 2021 – Cameroon: Because of their compromised immune systems, people living with AIDS are among those most at risk of developing COVID-19 complications. UNOPS is procuring medical equipment used for COVID-19 treatment on behalf of the Ministry of Public Health's National AIDS Control Committee, with $3.9 million in funding from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
• 25 January 2021 – Senegal: On behalf of the Ministry of Health and Social Action, UNOPS is supporting Senegal's COVID-19 response by procuring emergency vehicles and ambulances, with $3.4 million in funding from the Islamic Development Bank.
• 8 January 2021 – Ghana: To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, UNOPS will procure emergency medical equipment and supplies – including personal protective equipment – for Ghana's Ministry of Health, with $200,000 in funding from Korea International Cooperation Agency.
• 22 December 2020 – Mozambique: In partnership with the Ministry of Health and with $2.2 million in funding from the Islamic Development Bank, UNOPS is procuring 50 ambulances to support the country’s COVID-19 response.
• 22 December 2020 – The Gambia: In partnership with the Ministry of Health and the World Bank, UNOPS will procure essential equipment as part of the wider COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project. The procurement of four waste disposal trucks, two cargo trucks, garbage bins and one power generator will be used by the National Health Laboratory to expand testing of COVID-19 patients, manage medical waste and facilitate the smooth operations of the country's laboratory services.
• 11 December 2020 – Guinea: With $1.4 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS will procure 36 vehicles to aid in the country’s preparedness and response to COVID-19.
• 5 November 2020 – Libya: UNOPS is supporting Libya's COVID-19 response by procuring and delivering medical supplies, equipment and vehicles for 20 municipalities across the country, with €9 million in funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This will help strengthen the capacity of the healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 26 October 2020 – Guinea: To support COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS is procuring 30 ambulances on behalf of Guinea's Ministry of Health, using more than $1.5 million in funding from the Islamic Development Bank. The ambulances will help strengthen the capacity of Guinea's National Health Security Agency.
• 9 September 2020 – Chad: With $4 million in funding from the Islamic Development Bank, UNOPS is helping strengthen health capacity in Chad, by procuring and installing five modular laboratories throughout the country. UNOPS will also procure extractors, thermocyclers, rapid screening kits and other key laboratory equipment to support the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 7 September 2020 – Benin: With around $20 million in funding from the Islamic Development Bank, UNOPS is helping support the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 response efforts by strengthening overall health capacity. Under the project, UNOPS will oversee the procurement and delivery of one fully equipped mobile laboratory and two medical ambulances, as well as the procurement and installation of two fully equipped national laboratories. UNOPS will also install and equip four epidemiological treatment centres in the country. This will help build national capacity to test for, detect, analyze and treat COVID-19 cases.
• 4 September 2020 – Democratic Republic of the Congo: As part of the fight against Ebola and COVID-19, UNICEF is funding contracts for eight journalists to work with Radio Okapi – which operates under the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The journalists will work to produce credible and factual information, and support important development work in the field. UNOPS will recruit the journalists and manage their contracts.
• 13 August 2020 – Cameroon: Using more than $27 million in financing from the Islamic Development Bank, UNOPS, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Programme will procure vital equipment and supplies – including scanners, respiratory equipment, ambulances, mobile radios, hospital beds and personal protective equipment – to aid Cameroon's COVID-19 response efforts. Read more
• 6 August 2020 – Ethiopia: In partnership with the Ministry of Education and with more than $7 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is helping to establish satellite connectivity for approximately 1,500 high schools across the country. This will be used as a central communication tool between schools and students, ensuring learning activities can continue and national examinations can be held online – both which have been disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 23 July 2020 – Cameroon: With funding from the Islamic Development Bank, UNOPS is procuring $9 million worth of medical equipment – including 1,500 hospital beds, 10,000 oxygen cylinders, 75,000 masks and particulate respirators, and 50,000 protective suits – on behalf of Cameroon's Ministry of Public Health to support COVID-19 response efforts.
• 21 July 2020 – Cameroon: With $1.9 million in funding from the French Development Agency, UNOPS is procuring medical equipment – including 600 hospital beds, 100 intensive care unit electric beds, 250 syringe pumps and 500,000 pairs of gloves – on behalf of Cameroon's Ministry of Public Health to support the country's COVID-19 response efforts.
• 15 July 2020 – Tunisia: With $4 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development, UNOPS is designing and constructing isolation units for people infected with COVID-19, as well as working with UNICEF to procure medical equipment – all to support Tunisia's COVID-19 response efforts.
• 14 July 2020 – Multiple countries: With €53 million in funding from the European Union (EU), UNOPS is supporting the Intergovernmental Authority on Development with mitigating the health and socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in eight countries. UNOPS will manage projects aimed at supporting migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons and cross-border communities in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. As part of this, UNOPS will use more than €17 million in EU funding to procure medical supplies (including equipped ambulances, mobile laboratories and personal protective equipment) and help build quarantine and isolation centres in refugee camps and migration response centres.
• 25 June 2020 – Mali: Under the World Bank-financed Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement project, UNOPS is helping Mali strengthen its testing and health systems capacities by procuring more than $3.5 million of vital equipment (including test kits, respirators and personal protective equipment) to aid in the country's COVID-19 response.
• 16 June 2020 – Multiple countries: We’re working with TradeMark East Africa to procure $4.4 million worth of personal protective equipment and other supplies, destined for 11 East African countries – Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The equipment will include masks, gloves, handwashing stations, soaps, sanitizers, infrared thermometers and full protective gear, to facilitate safe trade across borders.
• 5 June 2020 – The Gambia: UNOPS is working with the government of The Gambia to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in communities throughout the country. In partnership with the World Health Organization and with funding from the United Nations COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, UNOPS will procure and install medical treatment centres, as well as help provide additional building materials and supplies necessary to adapt infrastructure to COVID-19 safety requirements.
• 28 May 2020 – Chad: To support the government of Chad's COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Project, UNOPS has partnered with the World Bank to procure and deliver $8 million worth of essential medical equipment for the Ministry of Public Health, for distribution to all regional hospitals in the country. By providing rapid and effective procurement services in a complex market environment and security context, UNOPS is supporting the government's efforts to improve access to quality healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 12 May 2020 – Kenya: UNOPS provided logistical support for UNICEF and the Ministry of Health to provide training for 420 healthcare workers across 14 counties. To help build COVID-19 response capacity, UNOPS arranged the transport of workers to the training site, the payment of allowances and fuel reimbursement.
• 5 May 2020 – Tunisia: With funding from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and in partnership with the National Office for Family and Population, UNOPS is procuring personal protective equipment, hand sanitizer and COVID-19 testing kits for the Ministry of Health's Department of Primary Health Care.
• 1 May 2020 – Cameroon: With funding from the United Nations Country Team (UNCT), UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and materials for the UN Clinic in Yaoundé and in the provinces to support COVID-19 response efforts. The equipment will benefit UN personnel and their dependents based in Cameroon. As a member of the UNCT, UNOPS is giving an-in kind contribution by providing procurement and logistics services for the project.
• 30 April 2020 – Tunisia: UNOPS is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Tunisian Ministry of Health to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Tunisia. This is done through the contracting of selected hotels that will serve as isolation centres. The centres will allow up to 1,700 people who test positive for COVID-19 – but who do not require hospitalization – to quarantine.
• 29 April 2020 – Liberia: To directly support the government of Liberia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNOPS has partnered with the World Bank to procure and deliver 15 ambulances for the country’s Ministry of Health.
• 29 April 2020 – South Sudan: Using a $40 million grant from the World Bank's International Development Association, UNOPS is supporting the government of South Sudan with implementing the South Sudan Safety Net Project. The project will provide income security to those most vulnerable – including people with disabilities, the elderly and pregnant or breastfeeding women. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first phase of the project will focus on providing rapid cash transfers to vulnerable people in Juba. Read more.
• 27 April 2020 – Ghana: The Ghana Health Service has requested UNOPS to help procure motorcycles and bicycles for selected districts to support its COVID-19 response. The initiative is part of a broader project funded by the World Bank that will provide maternal, child health and nutrition services to communities across all regions of the country.
• 22 April 2020 – Tunisia: Through the Justice Reform Support Programme (PARJ) funded by the European Union, UNOPS facilitated the purchase and delivery of paramedical and protective equipment for the Ministry of Justice's General Committee on Prisons and Rehabilitation. This will support the government with preventing the spread of COVID-19. It will also ensure that all prisoners can access health services, in accordance with the Nelson Mandela Rules.
• 14 April 2020 – Togo: Through the World Bank’s Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Project in West Africa, the government of Togo requested that UNOPS procure three medicalized ambulances as part of the country’s COVID-19 Action Plan. The ambulances will help to strengthen the country's medical capacities.
• 9 April 2020 – Ghana: As part of a public-private partnership with Stanbic Bank Ghana, UNOPS procured more than 8,600 COVID-19 test kits and more than 8,500 RNA extraction kits, among other items, to be donated to the Ghana Health Service. This will help the country strengthen its testing and early case detection capacity to tackle the disease.
• 7 April 2020 – Somalia: UNOPS is working with a range of UN and government partners to support response efforts in the country. Among others, we are supporting the United Nations Population Fund with the procurement of essential medical equipment for Banadir Hospital to strengthen the provision of health care of people in need of hospitalization during this COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020, this project was extended to include the procurement of additional supplies and equipment for medical facilities in Jubaland, Puntland, and Somaliland.
• 3 April 2020 – Ethiopia: UNOPS is working with the government of Ethiopia to procure over $420,000 worth of laboratory equipment and supplies to help strengthen medical capacity and test more people for COVID-19.
• 2 April 2020 – Zimbabwe: As part of the Zimbabwe (Cyclone) Idai Response Project, funded by the World Bank, UNOPS is helping meet current needs associated with the COVID-19 response by providing essential personal protective equipment to community health workers. This includes the delivery of face masks, surgical gloves, hand sanitizer and gumboots. With an additional $3 million in funding in June 2020, UNOPS is scaling up activities to include capacity building of medical personnel for surveillance, tracing and investigating COVID-19 cases and will rehabilitate isolation wards at mission hospitals.

• 25 March 2022 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a cash assistance programme targeting the most vulnerable communities in conflict-affected areas to help mitigate the continuing impact of COVID-19. Using WFP's cash transfer mechanisms, LIFT provided one-time cash transfers to more than 46,000 households in Kachin, northern Shan, Rakhine and Chin States.
• 7 March 2022 – Bangladesh: With $9.4 million in funding from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNOPS is procuring oxygen plants and oxygen cylinders, as well as other medical equipment, to support Bangladesh's COVID-19 response and to help strengthen the country's healthcare system.
• 19 December 2021 – Bangladesh: Using more than $2.2 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is procuring laboratory equipment and supplies, among other services, to support Bangladesh's COVID-19 response efforts.
• 27 October 2021 – Myanmar: Through the UNOPS-managed Access to Health Fund, funded by four existing donors – the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Switzerland – the government of Australia is providing more than $3.3 million (AUD $4.5 million) to support COVID-19 response efforts, including procuring emergency supplies and supporting medical treatment.
• 3 August 2021 – Multiple countries: Using $2.5 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring 775 oxygen concentrators for Thailand as well as 100 oxygen concentrators, 100 suction pumps and 100 patient monitors for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, to support both countries' COVID-19 response efforts.
  
• 26 July 2021 – Sri Lanka: Under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator, UNOPS is working with the World Health Organization to support COVID-19 response efforts. As part of the project, UNOPS will plan and construct rooms for oxygen plants, procure and install oxygen plants, and procure genomic sequencing machines to track COVID-19 variants, using more than $1.8 million in funding from the UN Sri Lanka Sustainable Development Goals Multi-Partner Trust Fund.
• 20 July 2021 – Indonesia: UNOPS is procuring 2,800 oxygen concentrators to support Indonesia's efforts to fight a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, using $5.6 million in funding from the government of Japan.
• 4 June 2021 – India: With $10.5 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is procuring oxygen concentrators for the government of the State of Andhra Pradesh to support COVID-19 emergency response efforts.
• 18 May 2021 – Nepal: To help support medical facilities with equipment used to treat people with COVID-19, UNOPS is procuring 1,000 oxygen concentrators, as well as procuring and installing seven oxygen generation plants – one for each province in the country – using more than $4.5 million in World Bank funding.
• 14 May 2021 – India: With $33.3 million from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring and transporting oxygen concentrators and ventilators to support COVID-19 emergency response efforts for health services under pressure due to the ongoing pandemic.
• 19 April 2021 – the Philippines: UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies as well as personal protective equipment, installing waste treatment facilities and providing public health training, using a $59 million Asian Development Bank loan provided to the government of the Philippines.
• 18 March 2021 – Maldives: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, medical waste has increased in Maldives. To help the healthcare sector manage this, UNOPS is procuring equipment designed to help safely dispose of medical waste as well as sanitation supplies, with $860,000 in funding from the World Bank.
• 4 March 2021 – Turkmenistan: Using $2.8 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies for hospitals and medical centres in Turkmenistan to help strengthen the country's healthcare system and pandemic preparedness.
• 3 March 2021 – Pakistan: As part of an Aga Khan Development Network project funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, UNOPS will work with Aga Khan Health Services and the government of Pakistan to procure $600,000 worth of essential medical and laboratory equipment and supplies to support Pakistan's COVID-19 response efforts.
• 28 February 2021 – Pakistan: With more than $4 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies to help protect frontline healthcare workers and support widespread COVID-19 testing and treatment in Pakistan.
• 1 February 2021 – Sri Lanka: UNOPS is procuring $18.3 million worth of COVID-19 testing, biomedical and laboratory equipment for the government of Sri Lanka, with funding from the World Bank.
• 18 December 2020 – Myanmar: With funding from the World Bank – including a more than $48 million loan to support the Ministry of Health and Sport’s COVID-19 National Response and Recovery Plan and a $6 million grant for the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility – UNOPS will help strengthen the public healthcare system, focussing on hospital preparedness and provide additional intensive care unit beds and equipment in 65 hospitals across Myanmar.
• 8 December 2020 – Cambodia: Under the leadership of the Resident Coordinators Office and the coordination of the World Health Organization, UNOPS will conduct hospital preparedness assessments in 15 provinces across Cambodia – covering a total of 45 hospitals – as part of the UN Country Preparedness and Response Plan to COVID-19. The aim is to improve healthcare facilities to support enhanced service delivery dealing with infectious diseases.
• 4 December 2020 – Maldives: To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, UNOPS is working with the government of Maldives to procure $1.4 million worth of medical supplies, laboratory equipment and supplies, with funding from the Asian Development Bank.
• 1 December 2020 – Myanmar: UNOPS is supporting the Ministry of Health and Sports to implement the government’s COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) by procuring $165 million worth of medical supplies for COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment.
• 6 November 2020 – Cambodia: Funded by the World Bank, UNOPS will procure $1.9 million worth of medical supplies for the government of Cambodia, to help the country combat COVID-19.
• 12 October 2020 – Cambodia: Using more than $33,000 in funding from the UN Resident Coordinator's Office, UNOPS is working with the World Health Organization to conduct a rapid assessment of the preparedness of 45 provincial and district health facilities in Cambodia to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 6 October 2020 – Multiple countries: UNOPS is partnering with the Asian Football Confederation to support COVID-19 relief efforts in Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal. As part of this, UNOPS is delivering COVID-19 preparedness items to help pupils and teachers in Kachin State, Myanmar return to schools safely, providing personal protective equipment and handwashing stations to the police in Nepal, and procuring and delivering personal protective equipment and handwashing units for public spaces such as markets and transport hubs in Indonesia.
• 28 September 2020 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Access to Health Fund – funded by the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Switzerland – procured 45,000 test kits to help improve Myanmar's testing capacity.
• 4 September 2020 – Afghanistan: With $5 million in funding from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF), UNOPS will help to establish a 5-bed Intensive Care Unit. UNOPS will be responsible for overall financial management and quality assurance on the project and will procure medical providers to deliver medical infrastructure, staffing and management solutions, as well as necessary equipment and medicines. The ICU will help provide COVID-19 intensive medical care for the international NGO, diplomatic and United Nations communities – so that they can continue to deliver vital humanitarian aid.
• 29 August 2020 – Myanmar: With funding from the Norwegian Rakhine Fund, UNOPS procured and delivered essential supplies and equipment to Sittwe General Hospital in Rakhine State, including hospital beds, N95 masks and ventilators. With support from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and through Myanmar's National Tuberculosis Programme, UNOPS also delivered machines for COVID-19 testing to help increase testing capacity.
• 7 August 2020 – Indonesia: To help strengthen Indonesia’s healthcare system, UNOPS is procuring personal protective equipment, COVID-19 testing equipment, medical supplies, and monitoring equipment for public transport stations with $3.5 million in funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency.
• 5 August 2020 – Nepal: As part of a programme that aims to improve security and justice services across the country, funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, UNOPS is supporting the Nepal Police (including the Women, Children and Senior Citizens Service Directorate) by procuring items essential for protecting frontline police personnel operating in five provinces, from COVID-19 infection. Procured items include personal protective equipment, surgical masks, gloves, sanitizers, knapsack disinfectant sprays and digital thermometers.
• 2 August 2020 – Maldives: Through a new agreement signed with the Ministry of Health and with funding from the Islamic Development Bank, UNOPS continues to support the country’s COVID-19 response by procuring more than $17 million worth of laboratory equipment, medical devices and other essential items. UNOPS is working closely with the Ministry of Health to help build health procurement capacity in the Small Island Developing State.
• 31 July 2020 – Nepal: UNOPS is supporting the Ministry of Health and Population by procuring COVID-19 test kits to effectively identify positive cases of the virus and to track the spread of infection.
• 17 July 2020 – Sri Lanka: With funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS has procured and supplied the Sri Lanka Health authorities with $1 million of essential medical equipment to support the country’s COVID-19 response.
• 15 June 2020 – Maldives: With funding from the Islamic Development Bank and in partnership with the government of Maldives, UNOPS is procuring emergency medical supplies, laboratory equipment and other essential items to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
• 5 June 2020 – Cambodia: In support of the government of Cambodia’s fight against COVID-19, we will procure health equipment and medical supplies worth a total of $4.3 million, funded by the World Bank. The supplies will be obtained over the course of two projects, in support of the Ministry of Health and in partnership with WHO.
• 30 May 2020 – Nepal: As part of a programme that aims to improve security and justice services across the country, funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, UNOPS is providing support for water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in 21 quarantine sites in three provinces of Nepal. Special consideration has been given to ensure safe and adequate facilities for women and children. Sanitary pads, dignity kits, disinfectants and other supplies – including surgical masks, sanitizer and gloves – have also been distributed to the quarantine sites.
• 28 May 2020 – Myanmar: With $5 million in funding from the government of Japan – part of a broader $29 million COVID-19 response project for Asia – UNOPS is procuring COVID-19 emergency supplies and equipment for hospitals in Myanmar. This will support the country’s response efforts in three key areas: infection prevention and control, testing and surveillance, and clinic management. The project will benefit up to 240,000 people.
• 27 May 2020 – Sri Lanka: A project funded by the UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund will help alleviate the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. As part of the project, UNOPS will help the government of Sri Lanka disseminate COVID-19 prevention messages to small and micro-enterprises (SMEs); work with UN partners to procure the equipment needed to ensure compliance with national COVID-19 prevention guidelines for 100 women-owned SMEs; and work with the International Labour Organization to train SME owners – including 200 businesses headed by women – in business management and occupational safety and health.
• 27 May 2020 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) and Myanmar's Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement's Department of Social Welfare announced $9 million in funding for social protection payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mothers of children under the age of 2, pregnant women and people over the age of 85 who are participating in social protection programmes initially piloted by LIFT will receive a one-off cash payment of 30,000 Myanmar kyats, starting the first week of June.
• 20 May 2020 – Tajikistan: Using $3.9 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is working with the government of Tajikistan to purchase essential medical supplies and equipment for 10 health facilities across the country. UNOPS will help the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population procure personal protective equipment, ventilators, mobile x-ray machines, oximeters and other supplies necessary to treat patients affected by COVID-19. UNOPS will also support the government with on-site installation and maintenance of the equipment.
• 15 May 2020 – Cambodia: With more than $6.3 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies as well as personal protective equipment, oxygen generators and a 32-bed modular hospital ward for patients with COVID-19 to support Cambodia's response efforts.
• 15 May 2020 – the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and supplies as well as personal protective equipment to support COVID-19 response efforts, with more than $3 million in funding from the government of Japan.
• 14 May 2020 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Access to Health Fund – funded by the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Switzerland – is providing at least 50,000 coveralls to Myanmar's Ministry of Health and Sports and ethnic health providers to protect frontline healthcare workers. Last month, it provided more than 150,000 surgical gloves and more than 500,000 surgical masks to the Ministry of Health and Sports.
• 12 May 2020 – Indonesia: To support Indonesia's Ministry of Health in strengthening the country’s COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS is procuring more than $4 million worth of medical equipment, supplies and medicine, with funding from the government of Japan.
• 10 May 2020 – Myanmar: The World Food Programme has begun weekly humanitarian flights from Malaysia to Myanmar. The first flight brought in 10,000 COVID-19 test kits procured by UNICEF. The European Union’s Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Response Mechanism – which is managed by UNOPS – and Switzerland funded the first phase of the humanitarian flight service.
• 9 May 2020 – the Philippines: The Governance in Justice programme – funded by the European Union and implemented by UNOPS – is providing test kits, disinfecting agents and personal protective equipment to help contain the spread of COVID-19 in jails. The programme is also providing multimedia tablets to enable inmates to participate in court hearings and communicate with their families and lawyers through online video calls.
• 1 May 2020 – Indonesia: Through a broader partnership with the Indonesian Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG), UNOPS is supporting peat care villages in several priority provinces with the production of cloth face masks. UNOPS procured and distributed the materials needed, including fabric and yarn, and supported the process to ship the items to villages across six provinces. Production of the masks is being carried out by women’s groups, local purun weavers and individual households.
• 24 April 2020 – Maldives: With over $6.5 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is supporting the government of Maldives' COVID-19 response efforts through the emergency procurement of medical equipment and supplies. This includes personal protective equipment, intensive care unit equipment and laboratory equipment.
• 24 April 2020 – Bangladesh: UNOPS is the fund manager for the Strengthening Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Programme funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development. Through the programme, £4.4 million has been approved for implementing partners to use for COVID-19 response efforts. This includes procuring personal protective equipment, medicine and medical supplies for COVID-19 testing, and training 200,000 people to provide information on COVID-19 to 5 million households. In Cox's Bazar – host to more than 850,000 Rohingya refugees – implementing partners are also procuring medical supplies and equipment needed for COVID-19 testing and establishing temporary treatment and isolation centres.
• 15 April 2020 – Myanmar: The European Union (EU) has created a €5 million emergency fund to help garment workers who have lost their jobs due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund is financed through the EU’s Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Response Mechanism, which is managed by UNOPS.
• 14 April 2020 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) announced additional funding of $15.8 million to support Myanmar’s COVID-19 preparedness and response. LIFT’s implementing partners will use the funds to support the country's most vulnerable: migrants, the elderly, internally displaced people, pregnant women and those with children under the age of two.
• 7 April 2020 – Myanmar: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is supporting Myanmar's COVID-19 response with the procurement of more than $6 million worth of medical equipment and supplies, including more than $700,000 worth of hand sanitizer. UNOPS, as the Principal Recipient for the Global Fund in Myanmar, is implementing this initiative.
• 2 April 2020 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) partner Eden is working with the organization New Hope to produce soap, masks and hand sanitizer to distribute to vulnerable communities at risk for COVID-19. They aim to reach up to 40,000 people. LIFT approved $20,000 in funding for the initiative.
• 2 April 2020 – Myanmar: UNOPS implemented the construction and equipping of 33 health centres in 4 townships. To free up space and capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports has moved the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria sections of the Myawaddy District Hospital and Kawkareik District Hospital to these health centres.
• 1 April 2020 – Myanmar: The UNOPS-managed Access to Health Fund is supporting the Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports and others with purchasing personal protective equipment (including 50,000 coveralls). It is also supporting the prevention and control activities of the Ministry of Health and Sports, ethnic health providers and implementing partners, which includes entry point surveillance, awareness-raising, outbreak management training, and water, sanitation and hygiene activities. Partners are also supporting high-risk populations in prisons, remote and conflict-affected areas, and internally displaced person camps.
• 1 April 2020 – Myanmar: The United Nations in Myanmar is in the process of purchasing 50,000 COVID-19 testing kits for the country’s National Health Laboratory. This number reflects the combined support of UNOPS, UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The UNOPS-managed Access to Health Fund – funded by the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Switzerland – is helping to procure equipment needed to conduct 20,000 COVID-19 tests, as well as an automated extractor, laboratory freezer, viral transport medium tubes, equipment for sample preparation and reagents.
• 17 February 2020 – Afghanistan: UNOPS is working with the World Health Organization to raise awareness and provide information on COVID-19 through Awaaz Afghanistan – the country’s nationwide inter-agency humanitarian call centre. The centre, managed by UNOPS, offers a single point of contact for all Afghans – including returnees and those affected by conflict and natural disasters. In February Awaaz received 144 calls from 22 provinces with callers enquiring about COVID-19. From 1-14 March, Awaaz registered 185 enquiries around COVID-19 from 28 different provinces.

• 28 October 2021 – Nicaragua: As part of Nicaragua's national vaccination programme, UNOPS – in partnership with UNICEF– is supervising the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and personal protective equipment, with funding from a Central American Bank for Economic Integration loan.
• 7 April 2021 – Costa Rica: UNOPS procured and delivered more than 18,000 cloth face masks to help students in high-risk educational centres safely return to schools as face-to-face classes gradually resume. The procurement was conducted in support of an ongoing cooperation programme between UNESCO and the government of Costa Rica.
• 20 March 2021 – Honduras: With funding from the World Bank and in partnership with the World Food Programme, UNOPS is supporting the government of Honduras’ COVID-19 response efforts by providing logistical support in the local transportation, storage and distribution of more than 16.8 million units of personal protective equipment. The equipment will be distributed across the Ministry of Health's hospital network including 32 hospitals in 20 regions.
• 12 March 2021 – Haiti: With $6 million in funding from the Inter-American Development Bank, UNOPS is supporting the Ministry of Public Health and Population’s COVID-19 immediate public health response to contain and control the coronavirus and mitigate its impact. Across the country, UNOPS is improving health facilities by completing technical assessments on health infrastructure and providing human resource support services to ensure the continuity of essential healthcare services. UNOPS is also procuring ambulances and vehicules to support the national epidemiological surveillance programme.

• 8 March 2021 - Honduras: Together with the Pan American Health Organization, UNOPS is supporting the UN Development Programme in its efforts to strengthen the government of Honduras’ response to COVID-19. The $13.3 million programme funded by Inter-American Development Bank will help strengthen the healthcare system by providing much-needed supplies, material and equipment. UNOPS is responsible for procuring medical equipment, industrial hospital equipment and ambulances.

• 17 December 2020 – Costa Rica: With almost $3 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS is supporting the Costa Rican Social Security Fund’s COVID-19 response by procuring a range of medical equipment and supplies – including hospital beds, monitors and portable X-ray equipment – for 20 hospitals.
• 14 December 2020 – Nicaragua: On behalf of the government of Nicaragua and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, UNOPS will provide technical assistance for the Multi-sectoral Programme for Economic Reactivation and Social Protection by verifying the programme’s bidding and financial procedures. Through financing public investment projects, the programme aims to create and maintain jobs as well as strengthen national food and nutritional security, and generate income and well-being for families of micro, small and medium producers.
• 7 December 2020 – Nicaragua: UNOPS will provide technical supervision in the procurement of drugs, medical supplies and equipment on behalf of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration and the Ministry of Health as part of a COVID-19 emergency prevention and containment programme.
• 10 November 2020 – Brazil: UNOPS is procuring pharmaceuticals – including drugs used in the palliative care of patients with COVID-19 and other basic assistance drugs whose supply chains have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic – for public hospitals in the State of Acre, in northern Brazil.
• 30 October 2020 – Brazil: UNOPS will procure medical equipment for public hospitals across Brazil, using $4.8 million funding from the government of Japan, to support COVID-19 response efforts.
• 30 October 2020 – Brazil: UNOPS is providing contracting services – including for nutrition, cleaning, laundry, hospital waste collection, unarmed security and reception – for a hospital specialized in COVID-19 treatment in Rondônia, Brazil. UNOPS is also procuring medical supplies and equipment to support in COVID-19 response efforts.
  
• 21 October 2020 – Mexico: To help strengthen Mexico's healthcare system, UNOPS will procure medical equipment for 12 hospitals in 8 states in Mexico as well as 14 ambulances for the State of Oaxaca, using more than $5.6 million in funding from the government of Japan.
• 1 September 2020 – Nicaragua: UNOPS is overseeing health infrastructure work on 12 hospitals and four laboratories as well as the delivery of equipment and supplies. The projects are part of a larger $22 million project, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), to support the Nicaraguan government’s efforts to reduce national morbidity and mortality rates from COVID-19 and mitigate other negative consequences of the pandemic.
• 24 August 2020 – Paraguay: UNOPS is working with the Ministry of Social Development and Itaipu Binacional to help ensure food security for almost 1,400 vulnerable families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 17 July 2020 – Haiti: With funding from a range of partners, including the World Bank, UNOPS has distributed personal protective equipment and procured mobile oxygen concentrators and pulse oximeters as well as the related accessories and maintenance kits. The equipment will be used for the treatment of patients across the country. UNOPS has also delivered and installed hospital furniture in the Olympic Park of Canaan, a large facility that has been transformed for the treatment of people infected with the virus. The organization delivered N95 masks to the Ministry of Public Health and Population. Further, over 50 technicians have been trained on the operation, maintenance and use of essential equipment to help strengthen the COVID-19 response in health centres in Port-au-Prince and across the country.
• 16 July 2020 – Paraguay: With funding from the World Bank, UNOPS purchased and delivered 50 ventilators to Paraguay's Ministry of Health, all of which have been installed and are in operation in 5 hospitals across the country.

• 14 July 2020 – Brazil: With funding from the government of Brazil’s Public Prosecutor for Labor, UNOPS is procuring lung ventilators, multi-parameter monitors and cardioverter-defibrillators for use in hospitals across Brazil, as well as equipping three university labs to support COVID-19 research. To protect the health workers, UNOPS is also procuring more than 80,000 N95 masks and more than 3 million pieces of personal protective equipment. As part of the project, UNOPS delivered almost 4,000 baskets of essential food items for families in Amapá and Rondônia state, including families living in indigenous reserves.

• 8 June 2020 – Paraguay: UNOPS has partnered with the Ministry of Health to procure medical equipment and supplies – including 1 million surgical gowns, more than 100 ventilators, 30,000 COVID-19 tests and 300,000 coveralls, among other items, using $15 million in funding from the World Bank. The items will help strengthen Paraguay's health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 4 June 2020 – Honduras: UNOPS is supporting the Honduran Social Security Institute with procuring surgical medical supplies to treat patients affected by COVID-19. UNOPS is also helping to analyze and develop a list of prioritized medical supplies and equipment to treat patients.
• 3 June 2020 – Peru: UNOPS is working with the National Centre for the Supply of Strategic Resources in Health and the Peruvian Social Health Insurance to procure ventilators and personal protective equipment, including coverall suits, masks, goggles, gloves and face shields.
• 2 June 2020 – Paraguay: UNOPS is working with Itaipu Binacional and Paraguay's Comptroller General to help strengthen the accountability and transparency of the government's COVID-19 response efforts through various computer system enhancements.
• 29 May 2020 – Brazil: With funding from the Ministry of Labor, UNOPS procured personal protective equipment for health workers in the cities of Nanuque and Teófilo Otoni. Items procured include overalls, N95 masks, non-surgical gloves, safety glasses, face shields and hand sanitizer. The equipment was delivered to the health departments of each city and to Hospital Santa Rosália in Teófilo Otoni. We’re working closely with various government bodies to help further strengthen the COVID-19 response across the country.
• 8 May 2020 – Panama: To protect workers, UNOPS and the Pan American Health Organization – the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization – jointly published new guidelines detailing measures that can be taken to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 on construction sites.
• 1 May 2020 – Guatemala: UNOPS worked with the World Health Organization and the government of Guatemala to assess the country's need for COVID-19 test kits. Facilitated by UNOPS, the European Union donated 70,000 test kits, with UNOPS managing the transportation of the kits to Guatemala.
• 29 April 2020 – Paraguay: In coordination with civil society and local government, UNOPS is working with Itaipu Binacional to help mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 by providing food support to more than 150,000 people each day in Paraguay's Alto Paraná province. More than 5,000 tonnes of food will be distributed to families living in vulnerable conditions.
• 3 April 2020 – Argentina: In response to a request from the City of Buenos Aires government, UNOPS will procure ventilators, face masks and diagnostic kits to increase the capacity of the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNOPS is also continuing to support the White Helmets Commission – a body of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for designing and implementing international humanitarian assistance. Through this support, UNOPS will procure personal protection equipment and hygiene supplies that will be used by volunteers and the vulnerable people they attend to.
• 31 March 2020 – Brazil: UNOPS is working with the government of Brazil to strengthen its response to COVID-19 in various parts of the country. To date, UNOPS has procured a range of personal protective equipment to be used by health professionals, including coverall suits, goggles, gloves and face shields.
• 31 March 2020 – Paraguay: On behalf of the Ministry of Health and with funding from Itaipu Binacional, UNOPS procured personal hygiene and cleaning items, bedding supplies, as well as a food service for 180 Paraguayan citizens who were subject to the sanitary quarantine protocol established by the national government.
• 25 March 2020 – Guatemala: UNOPS is assisting Guatemala’s Social Security Institute (IGSS) with the procurement of urgent medical items to diagnose, treat and monitor patients infected with COVID-19. Our team is also advising on mitigation actions that will help to ensure that the provision of existing healthcare services continues as planned – including the purchase of essential medicines and equipment. UNOPS specialists from a range of sectors are also supporting the IGSS to manage the health crisis more broadly.
• 25 March 2020 – Paraguay: UNOPS is working with the government to procure medical equipment such as ventilators and monitors, as well as other items needed for health clinics. Funded by Itaipu Binacional – one of the world’s largest generators of renewable energy – the project will provide an additional 35 hospital beds and seven intensive care monitors and reinforce the capacity of the Ministry of Health’s response efforts.
• 24 March 2020 – Argentina*: UNOPS is supporting the government’s response efforts by helping to urgently procure 11 fully-equipped emergency modular units, which will be installed in four provinces to provide 798 extra inpatient therapy beds. One-third of the space will be dedicated to intensive care units. (*updated 15 April 2020)

• 13 August 2021 – Georgia: UNOPS is working alongside UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Health Organization to mitigate the disruption of health services in rural areas of Georgia caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a project led by the UN Country Team, UNOPS will procure basic equipment and furniture for 200 village healthcare facilities as well as equipment used for telemedicine and telecare for 50 remote areas to support doctors in rural areas with providing quality health services, using $1.7 million in funding from the European Union.
• 11 June 2021 – Albania: To support COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS will procure medical equipment as well as refurbish and rehabilitate hospitals, with funding from a €9.3 million loan from the World Bank to the government of Albania.
• 2 April 2021 – Kosovo*: Together with the Ministry of Health, UNOPS is supporting the government of Kosovo's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. With $1.9 million government funding from a Council of Europe Development Bank loan, UNOPS will construct a new vaccine storage facility, in partnership with UNICEF, and will also procure refrigerated vehicles to distribute the vaccine regionally.
• 14 March 2021 – North Macedonia: UNOPS is supporting the government of North Macedonia’s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in coordination with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the Ministry of Health. With $5.2 million funding from the World Bank, UNOPS will procure a range of specialist medical equipment, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and computed tomography (CT) scanners. UNOPS will also oversee training to medical personnel working on the frontlines of the pandemic.
• 23 November 2020 – Kosovo*: As part of a $14.4 million project, UNOPS is upgrading health infrastructure for clinics treating patients with COVID-19, as well as procuring personal protective equipment and medical equipment for the government of Kosovo.

• 16 October 2020 – Georgia: With $6.2 million in funding from the World Bank, UNOPS is procuring a wide range of critical medical equipment and supplies for six hospitals in Georgia. UNOPS will also help install and provide remote training on the equipment to help strengthen the capacity of the country's health services to respond to the increased spread of COVID-19.
• 28 July 2020 – Serbia: Using funding from the European Union, UNOPS will be issuing more than €1 million in grants to 24 public healthcare institutions across Serbia to cover six months' worth of salaries for medical and support personnel in COVID-19 hotspots. Another €1 million will be used to provide technical assistance to national institutions responsible for procurement related to COVID-19.
• 27 June 2020 – Ukraine: Funded by the European Union, UNOPS procured and delivered more than €500,000 worth of equipment and supplies – including 150,000 respirators, 170,000 medical masks and medical sanitary clothing – to the National Police of Ukraine to aid in the country's COVID-19 response efforts.
• 20 May 2020 – Kosovo*: UNOPS and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) have signed an agreement to procure personal protective equipment for people living in Kosovo. With €150,000 funding from the German MoFA, UNOPS will procure specialized medical supplies for protection and treatment of COVID-19, including respirators, gloves and hand disinfectant.
• 14 May 2020 – Ukraine: In response to the critical needs of the healthcare facilities of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, UNOPS with funding from the government of Canada has procured and delivered seven artificial lung ventilation systems for the main military clinical hospital in Kyiv.
• 7 May 2020 – Serbia: With funding from the European Union, UNOPS has delivered 100 stationary oxygen concentrators, which will help reduce COVID-19 mortality associated with low levels of oxygen in the blood. With funding from the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway, we have procured and delivered 40 out of 100 intensive care monitors, with the remaining 60 expected soon.
• 7 May 2020 – North Macedonia: In support of the European Union’s assistance to the government’s COVID-19 response, UNOPS delivered 8,800 units of urgent medical supplies to an infectious disease clinic to help treat COVID-19 cases. These include pump systems, catheter sets, extension and infusion lines and syringes. We also delivered 12 mechanical ventilators and 5,000 protective masks to the Ministry of Health.
• 24 April 2020 – Serbia: With €4.9 million in funding from the European Union, UNOPS has delivered 800,000 protective masks for medical workers. Thirty-two out of 100 containers designed for the triage of people potentially infected with COVID-19 have been delivered to healthcare institutions located in Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, and several municipalities in the south of the country. The distribution of the remaining 68 containers along with the delivery of medical equipment and furniture will be completed soon. Further, 300 infra-red contactless thermometers have also been delivered to health centres across the country.
• 6 April 2020 – North Macedonia: With 4 million Euros in funding from the European Union, UNOPS is helping the country meet urgent medical needs through the procurement of ventilators, tests, laboratory equipment, masks and other supplies that will help strengthen the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 3 April 2020 – Albania: UNOPS has partnered with the European Union for the emergency procurement and supply of life-saving medical equipment and supplies to help contain the spread of COVID-19. This includes CT scanners, ventilators, ambulances and mobile X-ray machines.
• 1 April 2020 – Serbia: With funding from the European Union, UNOPS is procuring two specialized machines that amplify DNA and detect the presence of pathogens. We are also procuring supplies for 25,000 COVID-19 tests, as well as 800,000 protective medical face masks.
• 30 March 2020 – Kosovo*: UNOPS has partnered with the European Union to help strengthen Kosovo’s response to COVID-19. Through UNOPS emergency procurement expertise, around €5 million worth of medical supplies and equipment will be delivered, including 400 hospital beds, five ambulances and essential items such as ventilators.
• 27 March 2020 – Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro: UNOPS is helping procure essential medical and non-medical items as prioritized by the three governments. With initial funding of €3 million from the European Union for Serbia and $2.5 million from the Kingdom of Norway for all three countries, UNOPS is procuring 150 respirators to strengthen medical capacity and help respond to the pandemic.

(*referred to throughout in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 [1999])

• 28 February 2022 – Lebanon: With $1.3 million in funding from the government of Japan, UNOPS will procure medical equipment and supplies to help strengthen the capacity of the healthcare sector and prevent the spread of COVID-19. As part of the project, UNOPS will also install solar energy systems to provide a renewable and sustainable source of energy for health facilities.
• 14 October 2021 – State of Palestine: To support health facilities in the West Bank and Gaza with COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and vehicles capable of maintaining the low temperatures needed to transport COVID-19 vaccines, using $8 million in funding from the government of Japan.
• 29 July 2021 – Yemen: To support COVID-19 response efforts, UNOPS will procure personal protective equipment and hygiene kits for water and sanitation employees in 28 districts in Yemen, as part of the Yemen Emergency Human Capital project.
• 26 January 2021 – Jordan: COVID-19 has led to a mandatory lock-down and movement restrictions in Jordan, causing severe socio-economic consequences and aggravating existing vulnerabilities among conflict-affected and marginalized women in Jordan and in the Southern Jordan Valley in particular. With funding from the UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, UNOPS, together with UN Habitat and the International Labour Organization, is enhancing socio-economic conditions and creating livelihood opportunities for vulnerable women living in Ghor Al Safi through the rehabilitation of a community centre and a safe and green public space.
• 22 July 2020 – Yemen: In collaboration with UN partners and as part of a broader coordinated COVID-19 response, UNOPS and the World Bank added the Contingency Emergency Response Component to the Yemen Emergency Electricity Access project to help fast-track access to electricity so essential lifesaving healthcare services could continue.
• 12 May 2020 – State of Palestine: With $2.5 million in funding from the government of Japan – part of a broader $29 million COVID-19 response project – UNOPS is procuring medical equipment and medicine to support COVID-19 response efforts in Gaza and East Jerusalem.
• 6 May 2020 – Jordan: In partnership with the United States Agency for International Development, UNOPS expedited the procurement and delivery of critical radiology equipment and furnishings for the newly constructed emergency department at Al-Bashir Hospital, as part of an ongoing project. UNOPS will also procure IT equipment to support the activation of an integrated electronic health record system. This will assist Jordan's Ministry of Health's ongoing COVID-19 response efforts.
• 5 May 2020 – Iraq*: In partnership with the World Bank and Iraq's Ministry of Health and Environment, UNOPS is procuring intensive care unit equipment – including both mobile and fixed CT scans, ventilators, vital signs monitors, portable x-ray machines, defibrillators and electrical hospital beds – to help COVID-19 response efforts in the country. The $7.8 million project is being funded by a loan from the World Bank. (*updated 17 January 2022)
• 30 April 2020 – Iraq: The UNOPS-implemented Iraq Information Centre provides life-saving information to internally displaced persons, refugees, returnees and host community members. In partnership with an international non-governmental organization, call operators are conducting surveys to gather community views and feedback on the COVID-19 pandemic. The surveys – given in Anbar, Dahuk, Erbil, Ninewa, Salah al-Din and Sulaymaniyah Governates – will be used to facilitate dialogue with response organizations in Iraq.
• 3 April 2020 – Lebanon: Under the World Bank's Health Resilience Project, UNOPS and the World Health Organization are supporting the Ministry of Public Health with the procurement of critically needed equipment and supplies. This includes personal protective equipment, ventilators and specialized machines. This will help increase the capacity of hospitals to respond to the pandemic.
• April 2020 – Yemen: As part of the Yemen Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project, UNOPS and the World Bank are providing support to Yemen’s health sector through integrated services, which are critical in the fight against COVID-19 and other diseases. This includes facilitating the delivery of equipment, tools, infrastructure and 110 tonnes of personnel protective equipment for some 8,000 workers in 11 cities across the country. Read more.

• 2 September 2021 – Marshall Islands: Working with the government of the Marshall Islands, UNOPS is procuring more than $3 million worth of items – including personal protective equipment, generators, boat engines and radios – in support of the country’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
• 30 August 2021 – Papua New Guinea: UNOPS is helping to improve access to water and sanitation facilities in Papua New Guinea to support COVID-19 preparedness and prevention. As part of a €10 million project funded by the European Union and in partnership with UNICEF, UNOPS will assess existing water and sanitation facilities in the country to help identify service gaps, as well as rehabilitate existing and construct new facilities.
• 4 June 2021 – Tuvalu: With a $1.6 million loan from the World Bank to the government of Tuvalu, UNOPS is procuring medicines, medical machines and equipment, personal protective equipment and supplies to strengthen COVID-19 preparedness and prevention.
• 18 June 2020 – Micronesia: UNOPS will procure personal protective equipment, medical equipment, and critical medicines and supplies worth $2.5 million on behalf of the government of Micronesia. This will support patient care and health workers, people affected by COVID-19 and at-risk populations, including the elderly and people with diabetes.
• 18 June 2020 – Marshall Islands: Working with the government of the Marshall Islands and the World Bank, UNOPS is procuring more than $5.3 million worth of medical supplies, personal protective equipment and laboratory equipment to support the country's COVID-19 response efforts.
• 29 May 2020 – Samoa: With financial assistance from the World Bank, UNOPS is procuring more than $2.3 million worth of laboratory equipment, personal protective equipment and essential medical supplies in support of Samoa’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Project. UNOPS is also providing waste management solutions for the safe disposal of hazardous medical waste.
• 19 May 2020 – Palau: Funded by the India-UN Development Partnership Fund through the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), UNOPS is supporting the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 response efforts by procuring powered air-purifying respirators, as well as a heavy duty vehicle for transporting medical waste. The initiative is part of an ongoing health project, implemented by UNOPS, that aims to increase quality, availability and access to healthcare in the country – including through the rehabilitation of six community health centres.
• 24 April 2020 – Papua New Guinea: UNOPS is supporting the National Department of Health by procuring personal protective equipment, medical equipment and supplies with over $12 million in funding from the government of Papua New Guinea. With a $10.5 million loan from the World Bank to the government of Papua New Guinea, and under the leadership of the National Department of Health, UNOPS is procuring emergency medical supplies, a laboratory and laboratory equipment, and 25,000 COVID-19 test kits. UNOPS is also providing logistical support for the safe transportation of lab specimens for COVID-19 testing.