READY posts updates here—news, announcements, and other updates on the initiative.
March workshop set for Nairobi will be virtual
Due to rapidly evolving containment efforts and travel restrictions in response to COVID-19, READY is reconfiguring its East Africa Outbreak Preparedness Planning (OPP) workshop. The workshop will still take place from March 9–11, 2020, but it will be facilitated entirely online.
Knowing that COVID-19 readiness is top-of-mind for many of us, we are also amending the workshop content: It will focus exclusively on NGO readiness for the COVID-19 pandemic, aligned with key pillars within WHO’s COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan, including staff safety and wellness, business continuity, and risk communication and community engagement.
Participants should amend or cancel any travel arrangements they may have already made, and will find revised workshop objectives and a condensed agenda on READY’s community of practice forum.
Case Tracker: Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering
The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) has created a public COVID-19 case tracker, drawing together data from the World Health Organization (WHO), (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control (CDC), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC), and NHC, and DXY.cn (Chinese: 丁香园; pinyin: DīngXiāngYuán, an online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies, and health care facilities). The data behind the visualization is available in a GitHub repository, available to the public for download.
READY accelerates Asia workshops in response to COVID-19
In response to rapid developments surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, READY has arranged Outbreak Preparedness Planning (OPP) workshops to take place in Vietnam (February 20-21, 2020) and Indonesia (February 26-28). The workshops will use READY’s community forum to facilitate knowledge exchange. If you would like to participate in a future READY workshop, please contact us by email: ready@savechildren.org.
