Mongolia

The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and, more specif­i­cal­ly, the clo­sure of the bor­ders since Jan­u­ary 2020 has had a severe impact on the deliv­ery of the pro­gramme, lead­ing to its exten­sion for a year in order to move those activ­i­ties in the project that have not been imple­ment­ed to 2021.

As part of the response to COVID-19 in Mon­go­lia, Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion has sup­port­ed two inter­ven­tions since June 2020, to the val­ue of EUR345,000 and EUR486,200 respec­tive­ly, to com­pen­sate for the delays in imple­ment­ing cer­tain activ­i­ties that had been set out in the annu­al work plan.

The first con­tri­bu­tion made it pos­si­ble to pro­vide a pos­i­tive response to a request from the Unit­ed Nations Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) to boost the capac­i­ties of the mater­nal health ser­vices through the unin­ter­rupt­ed sup­ply of vital ser­vices to preg­nant women, in Ulaan­baatar and in four bor­der provinces. In addi­tion, the project seeks to pro­tect the safe­ty and dig­ni­ty of women and girls in quar­an­tine, includ­ing health­care providers.

The sec­ond con­tri­bu­tion was launched in col­lab­o­ra­tion with LuxDev, with the aim of boost­ing the capac­i­ties of car­dio­vas­cu­lar ser­vices as part of the fight against COVID-19 by mak­ing avail­able var­i­ous types of bio­med­ical and essen­tial pro­tec­tive equip­ment required to pre­vent the spread of the virus and for the treat­ment of COVID-19 patients with under­ly­ing car­dio­vas­cu­lar disease.