The project aims at strengthening the readiness of UN country teams to continue essential operations and help national governments in pandemic; through UN country teams it aims at strengthening the readiness of national governments to mitigate the beyond health impacts of pandemic; and at strengthening the readiness of humanitarian actors to meet humanitarian needs in pandemic.

The project Outputs are:

1. Greater awareness in restricted capacity developing countries of the need to prepare for a high mortality influenza pandemic.
2. Existing national and international institutions for disaster risk mitigation add ‘sudden high mortality pandemic’ to the list of risks they mitigate.
3. In the event of WHO Pandemic Phase 4, 5 or 6 being declared the UN performs well in assisting governments to face the situation in a broad multi-sector fashion 
4. PIC-backed UN basic measurement of national pandemic readiness beyond the health sector standardized for all UN programme countries. UN adopts standardized indicators of readiness for UN country teams – bringing together readiness elements from different parts of the system such as medical services and human resources.
5. 70 UN country teams assisted to support their national governments with pandemic preparation, including simulations.
6. Regional platforms of the key actors in AHI organized and maintained in 6 regions, covering participants from 100 countries.
7. Humanitarians agree on and undertake priority actions needed to prepare to provide humanitarian assistance in a sudden pandemic.