S TAT E O F T H E L D Cs S TAT E O F T H E L D Cs

LIST OF MAIN ACRONYMS

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator ACT-Accelerator European Union EU Middle East Respiratory Syndrome MERS Tuberculosis TB

Asian Development Bank ADB Food and Agriculture Organization of the United FAO Most Favored Nation MFN Total Final Energy Consumption TFEC

African Development Bank AfDB Nations Multi-hazard early warning system MHEWS Trade Facilitation Agreement TFA
African Continental Free Trade Area AfCFTA Foreign Direct Investment FDI
MIGA
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS
Agricultural Growth Programme AGP Green Climate Fund GCF
Multinational Enterprise MNE United Kingdom UK
Artificial Intelligence AI Gross Domestic Product GDP
Memorandum of Understanding MoU United Nations UN
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AIIB Global Humanitarian Response Plan GHRP
Multi-Partner Trust Fund MPTF United Nations Capital Development Fund UNCDF
Advance Market Commitment AMC Gross National Income GNI United Nations Conference on Trade and UNCTAD
Micro-, Small- and Medium-Enterprises MSME
Africa Medical Supplies Platform AMSP Heavily indebted poor countries HIPC Development
New Development Bank of the BRICS NDB
African Risk Capacity ARC Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV United Nations Department of Economic UN DESA
Nationally Determined Contributions NDC
IASC and Social Affairs
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN Inter-Agency Standing Committee Non-Governmental Organization NGO
IATA
United Nations Development Programme UNDP
Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ATLAS International Air Transport Association Neglected Tropical Disease NTD
United Nations Environment Programme UNEP
African Union AU Information and Communications Technology ICT Official Development Assistance ODA
United Nations Educational, Scientific and UNESCO
African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team AVATT International Fund for Agricultural Development IDA Organisation for Economic Co-operation and OECD
Cultural Organization
The Central Bank of West African States BCEAO International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD Development
United Nations Framework Convention on UNFCCC
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting BEPS International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker OxCGRT
Climate Change
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa BRICS Institute of International Finance IIF Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR
United Nations Human Settlement Programme UN-Habitat
Caribbean Community and Common Market CARICOM International Labour Organization ILO Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company PCRIC United Nations International Children's UNICEF
Catastrophe Bonds Catbonds Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses IMCI Personal Protective Equipment PPE Emergency Fund

Countercyclical Provisions CCP International Monetary Fund IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust PRGT United Nations Office for the Coordination of UN-OCHA

IOM Rapid Credit Facility RCF Humanitarian Affairs

Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility CCRIF SPC International Organization for Migration
Segregated Portfolio Company The United Nations Office of the High UN-OHRLLS
Investment Promotion Agency IPA Remittance Community Task Force RCTF
Representative for the Least Developed Countries,
Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust CCRT Istanbul Programme of Action IPoA Rapid Financing Instrument RFI
Landlocked Developing Countries and Small
Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC Island Developing States
Committee for Development Policy CDP Interregional Initiative IRI Severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS United States US
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations CEPI Islamic Development Bank IsDB Sustainable Development Goals SDGs Value-added Tax VAT
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa COMESA International Telecommunications Union ITU Special Drawing Rights SDR World Development Indicators WDI
Conference of the Parties COP Global Knowledge Program on Migration and KNOMAD Small Island Developing States SIDS World Food Programme WFP
COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access COVAX Development Small- and Medium-Enterprise SME World Health Organization WHO
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 COVID-19 Least Developed Countries LDC Science, Technology, and Innovation STI World Trade Organization WTO
(SARS-CoV-2) Fifth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries LDC5
Development Assistance Committee DAC
Low Income Country LIC
Debt Service Suspension Initiative DSSI
Low- and Middle-Income Country LMIC
Everything but Arms EBA
LTES
Long-Term Energy Scenarios
Extended Credit Facility ECF Measles-containing-vaccines MCV
Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS Mass Drugs Administration MDA
Enhanced Integrated Framework EIF Multilateral Development Bank MDB
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and ESCAP Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative MDRI
the Pacific

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