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07:36
18.11.2020
Lucy also asked how COVID-19 affects the anticipation programmes? Ashraful Haque, START Bangladesh replied: “Technology helped us a lot to overcome access difficulties, also our experience working with hospitals on dengue early actions helped us in our communication on COVID-19”. Nguyễn Thị Hoa of GRC Vietnam replied “SOPs of the project were adapted to the COVID-19 reality and certain aspects of the project, e.g. cooling stations in buses, had to be taken out to adapt to the new conditions.”

Duygu Bayramoglu

Questions on the role of communities and the impact of Covid

07:30
18.11.2020
Lucy Price, IFRC APRO, Regional Urban Risk Management Coordinator, noted that presenters talked a lot about “communities” and asked how to operationalise and work with communities? Ashraful Haque, Forewarn, START Network Bangladesh, replied: “We need to figure out what is being done already and if the community has the resilience to fight back and engage or not. To ask questions like if really the poor are the most vulnerable? For instance, we found that the poor were not the most vulnerable rather those who had lost their jobs. We need to understand the community first and foremost”.

Hilla Wessel

Given that the Asia Pacific is the most disaster-prone area world wide and that the majority of residents are living in urban areas, it is high time to create, mainstream and scale up ecosystems of anticipation rather than reaction at the city leve Lucy Price, IFRC APRO, Regional Urban Risk Management Coordinator 06:19
18.11.2020