The COVID-19 pandemic had serious health and socio-economic consequences worldwide, in particular in the countries of the Global South. In response, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) launched the Emergency COVID-19 Support Programme (Corona-Sofortprogramm, CSP) in April 2020. The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) has meanwhile evaluated the BMZ programme. Their findings demonstrate that this rapidly implemented programme was able to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. However, the distribution of CSP funding could have been oriented more closely to the vulnerability and affectedness of the partner countries.