IOM will hold a three-day "training of trainers" workshop on basic
counselling and communication skills from 8-10 September in Cairo.

The training will strengthen the capacity of Sudanese migrant
and host communities to cope in the event of a pandemic or other
humanitarian crisis. Specifically, it will equip community leaders
and humanitarian workers with basic counselling skills to assist
migrant and host communities during and after the pandemic phase or
any other humanitarian crisis.

The training is part of IOM's multi-location "Pandemic
Preparedness for Sudanese Migrants and Host Communities Project".
The overall objective of this project is to ensure continuity of
essential social, economic and governance services and effective
implementation of humanitarian relief under pandemic conditions for
migrant populations.

This project contributes towards the United Nations system and
partners consolidated action plan and the International Federation
of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies pandemic
preparedness.

IOM's pandemic preparedness for migrants' project team will
facilitate this training for 20 participants from a wide range of
community-based organizations and civil society, working with
Sudanese migrants and their host communities.

A study recently commissioned by IOM highlights the need to
implement migrant-friendly interventions during the current
pandemic alert phase to strengthen pandemic preparedness capacity
in migrant communities and host societies.

For further information please contact:

Dr. Anita Davies

IOM Geneva

Tel: +41 79 83 36 405

E-mail:  "mailto:adavies@iom.int">adavies@iom.int