BRACE Newsletter Jan-June-2019
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The novel coronavirus has had a profound public health impact in the developed world and is poised to have an equally if not more devastating effect on developing nations. As travel bans, lockdowns, and stalled trade take an increasing toll, economic spillover effects—and associated social instability—threaten to compound the crisis, especially in some of the world’s more vulnerable and fragile states. The advent of COVID-19 presents developing countries with daunting challenges—all interconnected—from economic, financial, and fiscal shocks to supply chain, agriculture, and food system disruption, to educational paralysis, challenges in the water and sanitation sector, and so on. Because many countries in the developing world lack the social safety nets necessary to underpin physical distancing regimes and protect vulnerable people in times of acute distress, the governments, policy makers, donors, private sector actors, and civil society groups in these countries will have to rally as never before.
Since the outbreak, the
The BRACE RSPs, and the TA Project implemented by DAI Human Dynamics, developed COVID-19 Emergency Plans to support and strengthen the capacity, in the 9 BRACE District, of the District Administrations, to coordinate and implement their COVID-19 response and recovery measures, which range from:
District Administration involved the TA ADCDukiin selection of Tiger Force Team under PM’s Ehsas Programme and build their capacities through Orientation Sessions & Task distributions
BRACE TA DC/ADC Facilitation to DHO/PEO for Spot Mapping of COVID Cases of district Kech
The TA continues to assist the GoB Secretary/Chief Foreign Aid (CFA), Planning and Development (P&DD) in its role as the Chair/Convenor/Coordinator of the...
The DC Khuzdar assigned the BRACE TA ADC Khuzdar tasks of Coordination with NGOS/INGOs for collection of data regarding Community Awareness Sessions for women/food items supply.
BRACE TA DC/ADC Pishin have been involved by District Administration in making arrangements of meetings at DC Office; Coordination with NGOs/INGOs for activities regarding Corona Emergencies
The District Administration involved the BRACE TA ADC Killaabdullah in Coordination with all stakeholders who are participating in controlling spread of Corona Virus.