KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA, Secretary General of International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), said the pandemic has revealed the deeply-rooted fragilities of the systems upon which development is grounded, damaging basic infrastructures, service delivery systems in health and education, job creation, and emergency preparedness.  It has also affected trust in public institutions  and their effectiveness in responding to unprecedented global challenges.  The international system of norms and institutions created over the past decades is at risk of becoming irrelevant, and “We cannot let that happen,” he said.  The United Nations will grow stronger out of the challenges posed by this pandemic, he noted, but only if it rekindles its will to change in the direction of more inclusion, more transparency and more democracy in the global arena.

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