The Commission supports the creation of the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Facility as a mechanism to enable rapid deployment of funds as a complement to the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies and before broader contributions are mobilized. If innovative insurance and capital-market mechanisms can be demonstrated to be both economically viable and practical, they could potentially represent attractive new sources of funds. Though clearly politically challenging to implement, binding contingent commitments from donor governments represent an economical and flexible alternative.