The Economic Revitalization Project Helps the Government of KP Respond to COVID-19

Rapid-response financing was made available through the Economic Revitalization of KP and Fata Project (ERKF), under its Project…Development Objective, to help access to emergency health and personal protective equipment (PPE). This helped support KP Health Department’s response to the outbreak. The Finance and Health Minister, Taimur Khan Jhagra, complimented the role of the MDTF in the helping procure critical health equipment, including 120 ventilators and 210,000 masks, to support provincial health workers in tackling COVID-19 in KP. The project is also well positioned to help the Government of KP respond to socio-economic disruptions caused by COVID-19 through its support to small amd medium- sized enterprises (SMEs).