Organization: World Health Organization
Dear All,
The World Health Organization (WHO) is about to embark in the process of developing a WHO Guideline on “Effective Community Engagement for Emergency and Outbreak Preparedness and Response” (non-definitive working title) and we are looking for your active support in this undertaking.
In line with the requirements of the WHO Guideline Review Committee (please see http://www.who.int/publications/guidelines/guidelines_review_committee/en/ for more information), the Guideline process will be kicked-off through a broad mapping of existing guidance that is used or could be used by policy makers and responders at all levels to guide their decisions and actions in the field of community engagement.
A service provider will carry out a flash survey literature review to identify existing international, and to the extent possible, national guidance – i.e. recommendations, manuals, policy advice, issue papers, tools, standard operating procedures, etc. in the field of community engagement for emergency/disease outbreak/epidemic/pandemic preparedness and response. In particular, the flash survey seeks to identify materials that were developed for use by national policy-makers and stakeholders, and that are meant to facilitate the building of national community engagement capacities. In addition, it will also try to identify any studies and articles that made assessments of such existing policies/documents. The period to be covered by the flash survey will be 2002-2017 and will look at materials in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.
While the service provider will do its best in identifying such materials, we would like you to share with us any materials that you may be aware of and that might not necessarily be straight-forward to find. For this purpose, please send me any documents, links to documents, bibliographies, etc. (published and unpublished) in order to make sure that we get a snapshot of currently available materials.
Please also feel free to share any materials that were developed around or used to guide community engagement interventions any recent outbreaks (e.g.Ebola, Yellow fever, Zika, Cholera, MERS-CoV, etc.). I would appreciate if you could send me your contributions by 24 November 2017 in order to allow time for collection and review.
Best wishes,
Mara (frigom@who.int)
How to register:
Please write to Mara Frigo (frigom@who.int)