Ambassador Manalo Underscores Recovery and Resilience in Development Work, and the Urgent Need to Address Vaccine Inequity

Ambassador Enrique A. Manalo underscores the need to urgently address the global vaccine inequity as a moral and development imperative at the UNDP High-Level Round Table on COVID-19 impact on the SDGs on 05 May 2021. (Photo from NYPM)

UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 11 May 2021 – Speaking at the UNDP’s High-Level Round Table on COVID-19 Impact on the SDGs, Ambassador Enrique A. Manalo, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, presented the development focus of the Philippines on recovery and resiliency to build back better and greener while underlining the urgent need to address the global vaccine inequity as a moral and development imperative.

As a response to the socioeconomic disruptions caused by the pandemic “we recalibrated our development trajectory to focus on recovery and resilience, concentrating on five critical programs that address health system improvement, food security and resiliency, learning continuity, digital transformation, and regional development,” the Ambassador said.

Ambassador Manalo also reaffirmed Philippine commitment to international cooperation and multilateralism in achieving the SDGs and highlighted the country’s contribution to the recovery of other countries through the Filipino migrant medical front-liners and migrant workers and PH’s concrete support for the COVAX Facility/COVAX Advance Market Commitment and the ASEAN COVID19 response. He reiterated the need to fully include migrants in the efforts of receiving countries with regard to COVID19 response and recovery inasmuch as the significant contribution of migrants to sustainable development in both origin and host countries is well-established. END

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