Frontier dialogue consultations on addressing structural racial and ethnicity-based discrimination

Key action areas for COVID-19 recovery plans

5 September 2021

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Frontier dialogue consultations on addressing structural racial and ethnicity-based discrimination

Overview

Frontier Dialogue consultations were led by WHO and UNESCO with support by OHCHR, IOM, UNDCO & UNDESA, under the umbrella of the UNSDG Task Team on Leaving No One Behind, Human Rights and the Normative Agenda, October 2020 to February 2021. With oversight from and co-authorship by a dedicated project steering group, this report was commissioned to the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University

The objective of this report is to provide United Nations country and humanitarian teams with a package of interventions, for adaptation to specific country contexts, to support rebuilding from the COVID-19 tragedy in a way that results in more just, equal and resilient societies. It focuses specifically on using COVID-19 socioeconomic response and recovery plans (which will be integrated into the regular United Nations Country Teams programming framework through the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks and Joint Work Plans) to address longstanding structural racial and ethnicity-based discrimination that the pandemic has so starkly revealed.

The production cost of the report was covered by the Government of Norway. The French and Spanish translations of this document were funded by the Swiss Government through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

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