Strengthening Public Health Response Capacity on COVID-19 and other Diseases in High-Risk Communities along the Mobility Continuum through a Capacity Development Toolbox

  • Start Date
    2020
  • End Date
    2022
  • Project Status
    Completed
  • Project Type
    Migr Health Assist for Crisis Aff Pops
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    400000.00
  • Coverage
    Global
  • Year
    2020
  • IDF Region
    Global
  • Prima ID
    CH10P0707
  • Projects ID
    MP.0512
  • Benefiting Member States
    Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Burkina Faso Cabo Verde Cambodia Central African Republic Chad China Colombia Costa Rica Côte d´Ivoire Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Georgia Ghana Guatemala Haiti India Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Federated States of Micronesia Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Niger North Macedonia Pakistan Paraguay Peru Philippines Republic of Moldova Turkey Rwanda Samoa Serbia Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Republic of Tanzania Uzbekistan Vanuatu Viet Nam Zimbabwe Guyana Honduras Nicaragua Democratic Republic of the Congo Nigeria Saint Lucia
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed gaps in national and local capacity at borders and in communities for communicable disease control, and suggests the need for multisectoral public health responses with a mobility-centred lens. This project will contribute to the prevention and mitigation of disease transmission by strengthening the capacity of front-line responders and communities along the mobility continuum. IOM will develop a toolbox with training materials along with tools to ensure risk communication messages are culturally and linguistically tailored and migrants are included in outreach campaigns. This toolbox will be used to train front-line responders to effectively prevent, detect and respond to communicable diseases, and will guide front-line officials and communities to engage in effective risk communication and community engagement to increase community knowledge, ownership and preventative behaviours, and therefore reduce vulnerability to disease. The toolbox will be available in English, Spanish and French, and piloted in Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Mali and Mexico.