The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses worldwide. All stakeholders, especially global business, must urgently come together to minimize its impact on public health and limit its potential for further disruption to lives and economies around the world.
But the sum of many individual actions will not add up to a sufficient response. Only coordinated action by business, combined with global, multistakeholder cooperation – at exceptional scale and speed – can potentially mitigate the risk and impact of this unprecedented crisis.
In this context, the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s COVID Action Platform provides over 39 projects, articles, recordings of webinars to mobilize multistakeholder cooperation for the COVID-19 response. The platform focuses on three priorities: