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Accepted Paper: B12-06. To panel B12.

Title of paper:

Authors:

Jennifer Wenningkamp (University of Denver);

Noa Shapira.

Short abstract paper:
A comprehensive response from public and private sector frames three suggestions as imperative steps in urgent response to COVID-19 Pandemic within 2030 SDGs and corporate ESG framework: Urgent Public Health Safety Measures, Knowledge exchange and Remote Education Services, Economic stimulus.

Long abstract paper:
This paper builds an argument which supports a comprehensive response from public and private sector supporting three suggestions as imperative steps in urgent response to COVID-19 Pandemic: Urgent Public Health Safety Measures, Knowledge exchange and Remote Education Services, Economic stimulus. This research demonstrates the potential of implementing nationwide mobile phone texts message communicating public safety alerts, web-based health education for rapid dissemination of Ministry of Health security measures, and an adaptation of Social Cash Transfers (SCTs) to bolster emergency health service preparedness and health security sustainable development goals (SDGs). This paper also introduces the concept of CCTs in the Private sector to respond to the corresponding economic crisis accompanying the COVID-19 Pandemic. These policy recommendations consider Mozambique's main challenges affecting prospects of reaching these specific SDGs. These problematic factors include underdeveloped institutions, foreign dependency for market development, climate challenges, and a bifurcated state as a legacy of the late Colonial era.

Some of the strategies that have been proven to be effective for this response are a nationwide mobile phone texts message communicating public safety alerts; web-based health education for rapid dissemination, and an adaptation of Social Cash Transfers (SCTs) to bolster emergency health service preparedness and health security sustainable development goals (SDGs). These strategies would be more effective by incorporating the private sector into a collaborative effort to meet the challenges of COVID-19. The suggested framework to do so is ESG, meaning that this response would be environmentally sustainable, while upholding human rights, labor rights, and other social factors which are strongly related to the 2030 sustainable development goals.

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