Türkiye Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies Project

The development objective of Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies Project for Türki̇ye is to strengthen Türkiye's capacity to (i) produce vaccines, and (ii) detect and initiate a rapid response to public health emergencies. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Strengthen vaccine production capacity, will focus on preventing infectious diseases by enabling vaccine production to improve access to vaccines, which proved critical during COVID-19. 2) The second component, Strengthen national and subnational capacities for detection of and response to health emergencies, has the following sub-components: (i) Early warning and surveillance; (ii) Laboratory and diagnostics systems; and (iii) National planning and emergency response coordination for emergency-ready health systems. 3) The third component, Project Management and Monitoring, and Institutional Capacity, will support routine project management, including coordination of technical activities in all components, fiduciary functions, audits of project financial statements, environmental and social (E&S) compliance, and regular monitoring of and reporting on implementation. 4) The fourth component, Contingent Emergency Response, aims to improve the government’s response capacity in the event of an emergency.