Iraqi Red Crescent Society COVID-19 preparedness profile (as of May 5, 2020) Other programming19, 20, 6, 21, 22, 23 Risk & Hazards Population:7 29,741,976
INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index1 Population over 65:7 3% People reached
7 Hazard & Lack coping Income level: Upper middle income Program: Active: Direct: Indirect: Vulnerability Risk class Exposure capacity Urban (percentage):7 69% 4.2 3.1 4.7 Medium Epidemic/Pandemic: No - - INFORM COVID-19 risk rank: 64 of 191 countries IFRC Operations (last 5 years) CBS: No - - DREF & Appeals11 Highlighted INFORM COVID-19 sub-components Health (all program): No - -
Socio-Economic Vulnerability: 4.4 Epidemics Non-Epidemics Total WASH: No - - Count 0 3 3 Food Security: 6.8 CHF 0 2,481,353 2,481,353 DRR: Yes - - All IFRC supported responses (last 5 yrs): Gender Based Violence (GBV): 6.8 Social Inclusion: No - - Civil Unrest (2019), Earthquake (2017), Population Movement (international & national): 1.2 Movement (2016) Long-term No - - Behaviour (awareness & trust)): 5.0 programmes: Iraqi Red Crescent Society First Aid: No (0 volunteers trained) Governance (effectiveness & corruption): 7.8 13, 9, 6 Access to healthcare: 6.1 Mandate and resources National Society capacity strenghtening 24 NS Auxiliary role recognized: - and development processes Health context IDRL Law/Mechanism: - Cash preparedness - Self assessment 4. Global Health Security Index:2 167 out of 195 Implementation (2019), Logistics - Logistics Branches and warehouses: - Development Implementation (2016), Logistics - Global Health Security preparedness levels: Staff (% accidental insurance): 2,077 (0%) Logistics Development Plan of Action (2016), Logistics - Logistics Development Assessment (2016) Preventing pathogens: Least prepared Volunteers (% a. insurance): 5,800 (0%)
Early detection/reporting of epidemics: More prepared Youth (6-29 yrs) (% volunteers): - (-%) About: Country profiles Responding & mitigating spread: Least prepared 14 Continuity of care (MHPSS: The purpose of this document is to help outline National Society risk as well No known support for Staff. PSS support for Volunteers. Treat the sick & protect health workers: Least prepared as capacities for preparedness, containment, and mitigation of COVID-19. This document pulls existing IFRC and public information to inform about 15, 16 Commitments (HR, funding & norms): Least prepared Medical services country-level risk and hazards, health context, Movement representation, Pre-hospital care: Yes National Society programs and services, and coordination mechanisms. Risk/vulnerability to biological threats: Most at risk INFORM and GHSI methodology and details on how to read the Health Centre(s): - ReadyScore:3 46 out of 100 severity scales are available in the link below, in the links in the data source section. Hospital(s): - For more information on National Society capacity strengthening and GHS process engagement4, 5 development processes, please contact: Higher Education: - • National Society Development (NSD) for Organisational Capacity Joint External Evaluation (JEE): Completed Assessment and Certification (OCAC) and Branch Organizational Programmes Capacity Assessment (BOCA) National Action Plan for Health Security: Completed • Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery (DCPRR) for National Society Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA): No Community-based Health & First Aid and cash preparedness 17 (CBHFA) • Logistics team for Logistics assessments Healthcare system capacity (per 1,000 population)8, 7 Is CBHFA active: Data Sources Yes 1.4 Hospital bed(s) (2020) 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index (v0.1.2) 6 CBHFA activities: 2 Global Health Security Index (GHSI) (2019) 1 Physician(s) (2017) 3 Prevent Epidemics ReadyScore (2019) Development / Peacetime Context, Emergency, Schools, 4 WHO Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) Recovery, Migrant centers, Other and Health Security (2020) 2 Nurse(s) and midwi(ves) (2017) 5 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (2020) 4 Health topics taught: 6 IFRC Federation-wide databank and reporting system (2018) 7 World Bank Open Data 0 Community healthcare worker(s) (2004) Non-Communicable Disease (NCD), Communicable 8 Imperial College London (ICL) and London School of Hygiene & Disease Prevention, Behaviour Change, First Aid Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) 9 IFRC Disaster Law Database (IDRL) (2020) RCRC Movement Presence 10 IFRC National Society Directory (2018) Community Engagement & Accountability 11 IFRC Go (2020) IFRC Region:9, 10 MENA 18 12 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020) (CEA) 13 IFRC COVID-19 Government Actions (2020) 9, 10 14 IFRC MHPSS: Survey (2019) IFRC CCST: - 15 Global Advisory Panel on Corporate Governance and Risk HR Capacity: Management of Blood Services in Red Cross and Red Crescent IFRC Country Office:9, 10 Iraq Societies. Global Mapping - Red Cross / Red Crescent National - Society involvement in country blood programs, 2018. 16 Business Continunity Planning/Medical capacity mapping (2020) IFRC Status agreement:9, 10 - Structure: 17 IFRC CBHFA: Survey (2019) - 18 IFRC Community Engagement & Accountability: Map (2019) 9, 10 19 IFRC Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program IFRC Bank account: - 20 IFRC Community-based Surveillance (2020) No Programs: 21 IFRC Global Safe Water Initiative (GWSI) Portal (2018) Corresponding language:9, 10 Arabic / English - 22 IFRC Disaster Risk Reduction: Global mapping (2018) 23 IFRC Social Inclusion capacity mapping (2019) 24 IFRC National Society Development (2019) ICRC Presence:12 Yes Mental Health and Psychosocial Support 14 (MHPSS) Found incomplete, incorrect, or out of date information?Ideas on how to improve? Please share Number of volunteers trained in: your feedback. Partner National Societies (financial support):6 Basic Psychosocial support (PSS): 100 Swedish Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, Norwegian Psychological First Aid (PFA): 150 Red Cross, German Red Cross, American Red Cross, Number of highly skilled volunteers: Italian Red Cross, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Social Workers (0), Psychologist (0), Psychiatrist (0), Republic of Iran, Turkish Red Crescent Society, Algerian Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) (0) Red Crescent, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Jordan National Red Crescent 4 current Psychosocial (PSS) activities: Society, Egyptian Red Crescent Society, Red Crescent Child friendly spaces, Recreational activities, Society of the United Arab Emirates, Finnish Red Cross, Psychological first aid, Volunteer support French Red Cross, The Canadian Red Cross Society, 1 current Mental Health (MH) activities: Japanese Red Cross Society, Singapore Red Cross Psychological support home visit Society, Luxembourg Red Cross, Austrian Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross, British Red Cross 7 MHPSS target populations: Adolescents, Children, Older persons, Indigenous persons, Internally displaced persons, Migrants, People Demography affected by war and armed conflict