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Pandemic Influenza Contingency (PIC),
UNSIC
Substantive planning for:
1) pandemic containment and
2) responding to the pandemic crisis:
1) National readiness Best Practice
• Organization & planning
• Coordination
• Operational continuity of infrastructure
• Communications
National readiness main elements
Coverage of contingency planning for essential services in Coverage of contingency planning for essential services in 15 National Pandemic Preparedness Plans in Asia Pacific 15 National Pandemic Preparedness Plans in Asia Pacific
Total economies = 15 (UNSIC/PIC May 2007)
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Finance and Banking
Military Forces
Telecommunications
Power and Electricity
Fire service
FoodSupplies/Production/Distribution
Labour and Social Affairs,Insurance
Health and Ambulance Services
Public Transportation
Private Business
Water and/or Sanitation
Police and Prisons
Burial/mortuary services
Indicators Of Pandemic Readiness For 7 Selected Countries
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Need Of Phase 6Actors Needs to be Engaged
Responsibility Of Implementing Vulnerable GroupsEngage Local ActorsCommunication Strategy
Finance Defence Telecoms Energy
FoodHealth Transport Water Law And Order Burial
No Of Countries with a YES
Indicators Of Pandemic Readiness For 6 Selected Countries
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Yemen
Uganda
South Africa
Malawi
Kyrgystan
Czech
Czech
Kyrgystan
Malawi
South Africa
Uganda
Yemen
% of Indicators Positive on Basis of Available Paper Plan
10 areas for attention- Rule of law - Financial sector
- Public utilities - Communications
- Local level - Citizens engaged
- The vulnerable - Who does what?
- Public, private, civil, media partnership
- Lower capacity countries
A strategy for improvement
- measure progress in national influenza pandemic preparedness,
- advocate the need for improvement, - help -- develop and deploy tools that help partners improve preparedness.
Integrating this new risk into
the work of existing structures
1) National readiness
2) Humanitarian readiness
• Existing humanitarian operations
• New vulnerable groups
• ... worst in lowest capacity countries
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