Deadline: 30-Jul-22
The Pan America Health Organization (PAHO) launches this call to receive proposals for adapting health actions to groups and territories in vulnerable situations.
Objectives
The call aims the following objectives:
- Systematize the experience, learning and examples of good practices generated in the first call for implementing the “Guidance for implementing non pharmacological public health measures in populations in situations of vulnerability in the context of COVID-19.
- Expand knowledge regarding good practices for adapting health actions in territories and groups in situations of vulnerability in emergency and non-emergency contexts in the Americas region.
This call generated relevant learnings for the application of public health measures in emergency contexts, and especially aimed at groups in situations of vulnerability. The main lessons learned are:
- The importance of identifying and addressing the needs of the communities through dialogue with them, identifying the barriers that prevent or hinder the adoption of public health measures in many territories and groups in the region of the Americas.
- The need to develop capacities to be able to implement an emergency response that has a focus on equity.
- The importance of building capacity through community involvement, in all aspects of the response, including planning, implementation and evaluation.
- The need to generate local alliances that allow the response to be territorialized.
- The importance of the development of a new paradigm that helps to understand the health-disease process and its determinants, recognizing the importance of incorporating elements of the culture and language of the communities to achieve health
- The existing weakness in capacities for monitoring and evaluation of interventions in the context of emergencies with a focus on populations and territories in situations of vulnerability.
Types of Products
- PRODUCT 1: Work plan adjusted to the recommendations agreed with the PAHO/WHO technical counterpart.
- PRODUCT 2: Extended report and summary sheet of the example.
Funding Information
- Duration: August 8, 2022 to September 30, 2022.
- Total amount for example USD 1,500
- PRODUCT 1: USD 500
- PRODUCT 2: USD 1,000.
Applicant Requirements
- Proposals may be submitted by academic institutions, NGOs, community or civil society organizations with legal personality, the Ministries of Health, Health Services or Primary Health Care services, as well as local governments (Municipalities, cantons) and other government sectors. Proposals can be presented jointly by more than one institution.
- Proposals developed by teams that participated in the implementation of the “Guidance for the application of non-pharmacological public health measures in vulnerable population groups in the context of COVID-19” convened by PAHO/WHO in 2021 will be especially valued, as well as those presented by teams that participated in the regional meeting held on May 12 and 13, 2022.
- 40 proposals for implementation of the Guide were conducted in 19 countries of the region (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, USA and Venezuela).
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