Huang Xia, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and Vera Songwe, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), co-chaired a virtual round-table meeting on collective actions to mobilize resources and support in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.
The meeting brought together government officials from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda; multilateral and regional financial institutions, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, European Investment Bank, African Development Bank, African Export-Import Bank, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, Trade Development Bank; the Guarantor institutions of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework agreement, namely the UN, AU, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Southern African Development Community (SADC); and several development partners such as the European Union, and UNDP.
