Unprecedented & unfinished: COVID-19 and implications for national and global policy
This new report from the ISC outlines plausible scenarios for the COVID-19 pandemic to consider the options for achieving the most desirable end to the crisis, highlighting that decisions made over the coming months and years need to be informed not only by short-term priorities but also by long-term challenges, and will serve as an analytical tool for policy-makers to lead to a more optimistic outcome to the pandemic.
Policy recommendations proposed in the report include:
- Focus on reducing growing inequalities affecting societies' capacity to cope with COVID-19.
- Review and reframe the way risk is assessed and integrated it more formally into policy development.
- Build trust through coherent decision-making and reliable information.
- Prioritize science collaboration and diplomacy in times of peace, so that research can be promptly and equitable mobilized in a crisis.
- Ensure broad capacities in science advice, evidence synthesis and brokerage.
- Reform the multilateral system to enhance international cooperation and regional responsiveness before and during crises.
- Increase capacity for policy learning at local, regional, national and international levels.
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Hazards
Epidemic and Pandemic
Number of pages
109 p.
Publication year
2022