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Overview    

This page will provide links to IM reference material, guidance, standards, templates, and examples of products and services related to COVID-19 preparedness and response activities.   It is intended for OCHA IMOs but other humanitarian may find helpful resources. The page is a living document and will be updated as new information becomes available. Please leave a comment below if you have additional information, comments, suggestions for this page.

Humanitarian Icons for COVID-19 

The Design & Multimedia Unit (DMU), with contributions from ROAP and the Yemen operation, has released COVID-19 specific icons. They are part of the wider humanitarian icon set that was released in 2018.

The new icons include symbols for COVID-19, lockdown, social distancing, infection prevention, testing, infected and case management. There are currently available in AI, SVG and PNG formats. In the AI file, the new icons are under the sections Health and Lockdown.

Humanitarian Response.info for COVID-19

Offices are encouraged to provide a box on the front page with related COVID-19 guidance material from national responders (e.g. National government, etc.) and global experts (WHO, etc) and if relevant a page dedicated to COVID-19 activities in your country. Templates for both these services are provided in the link below and examples are also available.

3W

The 3W product(s) that will be required for COVID-19 is different than any other humanitarian response to date. The types identified to date include:

  1. COVID-19 3W Regional: Identifies the preparedness and response activities taking place in non-OHCA countries. It is based on the 8 Pillars for COVID-19  from WHO. Geographic framework is typically the COD-AB P-Code but in for ROWCA it is based on health zones. This data is currently placed on dashboards from OCHA regional offices.
  2. COVID-19 3W Country: Identifies the preparedness and response activities taking place in non-OHCA countries. It is based on the 8 Pillars for COVID-19  from WHO and related activities for each sector. Note that there are Sphere specific standards for COVID-19 .
  3. Normal 4/5W:  monitoring of HRP activities for countries that currently have an HRP. To be collected in the country from humanitarian partners
  4. Disruption 3W: Identifies of impact COVID-19 has on current HRP activities. It is the same as the 4/5W with an additional column to identify if the activity has been minimally, moderately, severely or not impacted by COVID-19 for countries that have an HRP. A column could also be introduced to identify what caused the disruption (e.g. access blocked due to lockdown where beneficiaries are located, lack of supplies, etc). 

Examples

Resources

Datasets

  • HDX page for COVID-19

  • Logistics Cluster main page for all information related to logistics

  • Health Geolab Collaborative 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). 

  • COVID-19 GIS Hub: from Esri is designed to gather and share relevant and authoritative community-driven resources from around the world. Read more. 

  • Worldwide travel restrictions dashboard  (Mobile version) Th main data source is the IATA website, but apparently, it is not updated very frequently so it is supplemented with info coming from other media. If you notice that some of the information displayed is out to date, do not hesitate to let WFP know (andrea.amparore at wfp.org)


Monitoring

  • The GHRP indicators are in the published document, and also here in the Annex. This should be the basis for any structured monitoring of the Covid response. Note that for all Health interventions and anything else covered by the national PRPs / global SPRP, the WHO monitoring framework (8 pillars) also needs to be used.

Resources


IMWG

  • IMWGs should still try to meet virtually if possible to agree upon the CODs, tools, processes for COVID-19 preparedness and response. For more tips please see: the Infectious Disease Events toolbox page


Other standards

Glide number


Sphere standards

  • Specific Sphere standards have been developed or identified for COVID-19 response. See the specific list and guidance on here: Sphere Standards for COVID-19

Style Guide

  • Definition from the World Health Organization: Coronaviruses

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that may cause illness in animals or humans. In humans, several coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The most recently discovered coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19.

Referring to simply the coronavirus is acceptable on first reference in writing about COVID-19. While the phrasing incorrectly implies that there is only one coronavirus, it is clear in this context. Also acceptable on first reference: the new coronavirus; the new virus; COVID-19.

Do not refer simply to coronavirus without the article the. Not: She is concerned about coronavirus. Omitting the is acceptable in headlines and in uses such as: He said coronavirus concerns are increasing.

  • Health care

Health care is a noun; health-care is an adjective.

Examples:

  • The majority of people have no access to health care. (noun)
  • Health-care programmes are now active in the south. (adj.)

Support to OCHA offices 

If you have questions or require support please contact the FIS Team who will provide the following services:





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