Mr. Mark Lowcock, the Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Chair of the IASC, convened an ad hoc IASC Principals meeting to discuss the COVID-19 response, including an update on the health situation, resource mobilization, and efforts to strengthen logistics, medevac and duty of care.
Guidance note on the importation of Medicines and Medical Equipment in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) “Survive together or sink together”
Frequently Asked Questions on inter‐agency PSEA: IOM’s lessons learned from PSEA implementation
in‐country (hereafter: FAQs on inter‐agency PSEA) stems from IOM’s experience in rolling out the 2016
IASC PSEA toolkit as tasked by the IASC Principals, and ongoing dedicated support to collective incountry
PSEA programs. The FAQs capture the recurring challenges brought to the Global IOM interagency
PSEA Project team by in‐country practitioners. IOM’s goal in collecting these FAQs is to support
Guidance note on the Importation and Customs clearance of Medicines and Medical Equipment in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) “Survive together or sink together”
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation classified COVID-19 as a pandemic.1 Disease outbreaks affect women, girls, men, boys, and persons of all genders differently, to say nothing of the wide variety of at-risk and marginalised groups. The compounding complexities of development and humanitarian contexts can have disproportionate effects on women and girls, as well as those at-risk and vulnerable groups. CARE International identified the need to highlight the gender and intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
IASC Results Group 2 (RG2) on Accountability and Inclusion provides response-wide guidance, tools, and technical support. The Results Group supports humanitarian leaders and responders to improve effectiveness and outcomes through collective approaches to accountability and inclusion in overall response efforts.
Chaired by UNHCR and UNICEF and reporting to the IASC Operational Policy and Advocacy Group (OPAG), the Results Group (RG) is comprised of local NGOs, International NGOs, the UN, Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and others.
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all vulnerable. Governments around the world are rightly adopting increasingly stringent measures to protect public health. Yet as they do so, fundamental principles of refugee and human rights laws are also challenged. Asylum seekers, refugees and the internally displaced are especially vulnerable to health risks and other protection concerns.
This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). The project was supported by global, regional and country based experts from Member Agencies of the IASC MHPSS RG, in addition to parents, caregivers, teachers and children in 104 countries. A global survey was distributed in Arabic, English, Italian, French and Spanish to assess children’s mental health and psychosocial needs during the COVID-19 outbreak.
