The Africa Pandemic Resilience initiative is a partnership between Future Africa Forum and Pandemic Action Network. It aspires to build a robust, resilient African health security architecture that can efficiently respond to future pandemics through active and proactive engagement with governments, decision-makers and other critical stakeholders, including the private sector. The initiative was designed to engage governments and policy decision-makers to preemptively set up systems that will ensure Africa is more prepared to respond to pandemic threats.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its third year, African countries are grappling with the fallout from this multi-year crisis. The pandemic has exacerbated geopolitical, national, and social divides, setting back years of progress on health and gender equity, education, poverty reduction, and social progress. Health and social systems are strained, making us less prepared to respond to pandemics and other health crises. 

Even as we look ahead, the COVID-19 crisis still looms. The pandemic underlines the urgent requirement across the continent for a New Public Health Order, championed by Africa CDC, and the need to build on lessons learned from previous epidemics. 

The partnership between Future Africa Forum and Pandemic Action Network is based on a mutual desire to amplify efforts aimed at realizing practical and actionable recommendations that will strengthen the pandemic preparedness and response ecosystem, governance, and financing at both the national and regional levels.

To mobilise resources, partnerships and political will for action and investment