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Preparedness and contingency planning
GNC Preparedness Guidance: GNC has developed this guidance to help country level Nutrition Clusters, nutrition sector coordination and nutrition working groups, to strengthen collective preparedness toward effective protection of the nutritional status of populations. IASC Interim Guidance - SCALING-UP COVID-19 OUTBREAK READINESS AND RESPONSE OPERATIONS IN HUMANITARIAN SITUATIONS - Including Camps and Camp-Like Settings - March 2020: This Interim Guidance addresses specific needs and considerations required in humanitarian situations, including camps and camp-like settings and the surrounding host communities, in scaling-up readiness and response operations for the COVID-19 outbreak through effective multi-sectoral partnership. The Guidance is developed in alignment with the WHO COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan and WHO Technical guidance for COVID-19 WHO COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan: Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response (Published 12 Feb 2020) WHO COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Hospital Preparedness Assessment Tool (Reviewed 14 Feb 2020)

Preparedness and contingency planning

GNC Preparedness Guidance: GNC has developed this guidance to help country level Nutrition Clusters, nutrition sector coordination and nutrition working groups, to strengthen collective preparedness toward effective protection of the nutritional status of populations.

IASC Interim Guidance - SCALING-UP COVID-19 OUTBREAK READINESS AND RESPONSE OPERATIONS IN HUMANITARIAN SITUATIONS - Including Camps and Camp-Like Settings - March 2020: This Interim Guidance addresses specific needs and considerations required in humanitarian situations, including camps and camp-like settings and the surrounding host communities, in scaling-up readiness and response operations for the COVID-19 outbreak through effective multi-sectoral partnership. The Guidance is developed in alignment with the WHO COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan and WHO Technical guidance for COVID-19

WHO COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan: Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response (Published 12 Feb 2020)

WHO COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response

CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Hospital Preparedness Assessment Tool (Reviewed 14 Feb 2020)

Strategic planning
The Sphere standards and the Coronavirus response - multiple languages: In this page, you will be able to find Sphere and its partners’ guidance on the COVID-19 response in multiple languages, additional resources based on humanitarian standards, and information on upcoming learning events. UN Global Humanitarian Response Plan on COVID-19 UNICEF UNICEF COVID-19 Programme Guidance_Feb 6
Country level documents Bangladesh Cox’s Bazar - COVID-19: Preparedness and response for the Rohingya refugee camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar District, 17 March 2020 Mali - Plan d’Actions pour la Prévention et la Réponse à la Maladie à COVID-19 (COVID-19) Somalia National Contingency Plan for Preparedness and Response to Covid-19, 17 March 2020 State of Palestine Health Cluster - Risk Communication and Community Engagement Plan - PPT Resource - Health Cluster Response Plan - March 2020 AFGHANISTAN: COVID-19 Multi-Sector Humanitarian Country Plan Inter Sector Coordination Group - Bangladesh: Joint Humanitarian Community COVID-19 Press Release - 29 March 2020 Ukraine: 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan for the Covid-19 Pandemic Ethiopia Nutrition Covid19 response plan

Strategic planning

The Sphere standards and the Coronavirus response - multiple languages: In this page, you will be able to find Sphere and its partners’ guidance on the COVID-19 response in multiple languages, additional resources based on humanitarian standards, and information on upcoming learning events.

UN Global Humanitarian Response Plan on COVID-19

UNICEF UNICEF COVID-19 Programme Guidance_Feb 6

Country level documents

Resource mobilization
IASC Key Messages for the IASC Flexible Funding for Humanitarian Response and COVID19 The note reflects recommendations made by the IASC RG 5 on Humanitarian Financing (co-chaired by OCHA and ICVA), together with inputs from the EDG. These key messages reflect IASC commitments and are aligned with Grand Bargain principles aimed at putting assistance into the hands of people in need and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action. UNCTAD News about the UN call for a $2.5 trillion coronavirus crisis package for developing countries , published on 30 March on the UNCTAD website. UNCTAD also has a COVID-19 News, Analysis and resources page, and has published a report on the impact of the crisis on developing countries from a trade perspective. IMPACCT COVID-19 Guidance to Import Goods for Humanitarian Operators It serves as a guidance note as to how to be prepared before dispatching medicines and medical equipment to countries affected by COVID-19.

Resource mobilization

IASC Key Messages for the IASC Flexible Funding for Humanitarian Response and COVID19 The note reflects recommendations made by the IASC RG 5 on Humanitarian Financing (co-chaired by OCHA and ICVA), together with inputs from the EDG. These key messages reflect IASC commitments and are aligned with Grand Bargain principles aimed at putting assistance into the hands of people in need and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action.

UNCTAD News about the UN call for a $2.5 trillion coronavirus crisis package for developing countries , published on 30 March on the UNCTAD website. UNCTAD also has a COVID-19 News, Analysis and resources page, and has published a report on the impact of the crisis on developing countries from a trade perspective.

IMPACCT COVID-19 Guidance to Import Goods for Humanitarian Operators It serves as a guidance note as to how to be prepared before dispatching medicines and medical equipment to countries affected by COVID-19.

Implementation and monitoring
GNC Nutrition Sectoral and Cluster Coordination Guidance in COVID19 Contexts Ver.2_06_04_2020 The purpose of this note is to give guidance to Nutrition Sector/Cluster coordination mechanisms at national level, on adaptation of the core cluster coordination functions and working modalities, due to COVID-19’s. The French version can be found here WFP COVID-19 Nutrition Program Adaptations Interim Brief #1 This brief is based on what is currently known about COVID-19 and the transmission of other viral respiratory infections, as informed by the WHO and Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and complements the potential adaptations recommended by the Global Nutrition Cluster. WFP will continue to update the brief as needed, based on the availability of new information. The brief is developed for WFP staff and cooperating partners’ staff in charge of acute malnutrition prevention and treatment activities. GNC has developed generic COVID 19 and Nutrition Technical Working Group (TWG) Terms of References (ToRs) in English and French This page has been created to allow practitioners across the region to find resources related to the management and use of geospatial data and technologies during the response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). WHO IPC during health care when COVID-19 infection is suspected (Published 25 Jan 2020)
Country level documents South Sudan Guidance For Nutrition Service Delivery In Context Of COVID 19 Myanmar NIE Guidance Note on COVID-19 Mali COVID- Propositions d'actions clefs d'adaptation des programmes nutrition Somalia COVID-19 Response Tracking Matrix Ethiopia Emergency Nutrition Covid-19 Recommendations

Implementation and monitoring

GNC Nutrition Sectoral and Cluster Coordination Guidance in COVID19 Contexts Ver.2_06_04_2020 The purpose of this note is to give guidance to Nutrition Sector/Cluster coordination mechanisms at national level, on adaptation of the core cluster coordination functions and working modalities, due to COVID-19’s. The French version can be found here

WFP COVID-19 Nutrition Program Adaptations Interim Brief #1 This brief is based on what is currently known about COVID-19 and the transmission of other viral respiratory infections, as informed by the WHO and Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and complements the potential adaptations recommended by the Global Nutrition Cluster. WFP will continue to update the brief as needed, based on the availability of new information. The brief is developed for WFP staff and cooperating partners’ staff in charge of acute malnutrition prevention and treatment activities.

GNC has developed generic COVID 19 and Nutrition Technical Working Group (TWG) Terms of References (ToRs) in English and French

This page has been created to allow practitioners across the region to find resources related to the management and use of geospatial data and technologies during the response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

WHO IPC during health care when COVID-19 infection is suspected (Published 25 Jan 2020)

Country level documents

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