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Irish Red Cross Society COVID-19 Preparedness Profile(As Of Irish Red Cross Society COVID-19 preparedness profile (as of May 5, 2020) Risk & Hazards People reached DREF & Appeals11 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index1 Program: Active: Direct: Indirect: Epidemics Non-Epidemics Total Hazard & Lack coping Count 0 0 0 Epidemic/Pandemic: No - - Vulnerability Risk class Exposure capacity CHF 0 0 0 CBS: No - - 3.1 5.9 2.9 Low All IFRC supported responses (last 5 yrs): INFORM COVID-19 risk rank: 161 of 191 countries - Health (all program): No - - WASH: No - - Highlighted INFORM COVID-19 sub-components Irish Red Cross Society Socio-Economic Vulnerability: 0.4 DRR: Yes - - Mandate and resources13, 9, 6 Food Security: 0.2 Social Inclusion: No - - NS Auxiliary role recognized: No Gender Based Violence (GBV): 0.4 Long-term Yes 2,158 - IDRL Law/Mechanism: - programmes: Movement (international & national): 6.4 Branches and warehouses: 131 First Aid: No (0 volunteers trained) Behaviour (awareness & trust)): 3.7 Staff (% accidental insurance): 68 (0%) National Society capacity strenghtening Governance (effectiveness & corruption): 2.4 24 Volunteers (% a. insurance): 5,296 (0%) and development processes Access to healthcare: 1.4 Youth (6-29 yrs) (% volunteers): - (-%) - Health context Continuity of care (MHPSS:14 About: Country profiles Global Health Security Index:2 23 out of 195 MH and PSS support for Staff. PSS support for Volunteers. The purpose of this document is to help outline National Society risk as well Global Health Security preparedness levels: Medical services15, 16 as capacities for preparedness, containment, and mitigation of COVID-19. Preventing pathogens: More prepared This document pulls existing IFRC and public information to inform about Pre-hospital care: Yes country-level risk and hazards, health context, Movement representation, Early detection/reporting of epidemics: Most prepared National Society programs and services, and coordination mechanisms. Health Centre(s): - INFORM and GHSI methodology and details on how to read the Responding & mitigating spread: More prepared Hospital(s): - severity scales are available in the link below, in the links in the data Treat the sick & protect health workers: More prepared source section. Higher Education: - For more information on National Society capacity strengthening and Commitments (HR, funding & norms): More prepared development processes, please contact: • National Society Development (NSD) for Organisational Capacity Programmes Assessment and Certification (OCAC) and Branch Organizational Risk/vulnerability to biological threats: Least at risk Capacity Assessment (BOCA) ReadyScore:3 - out of 100 Community-based Health & First Aid • Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery (DCPRR) 17 for National Society Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) (CBHFA) and cash preparedness GHS process engagement4, 5 • Logistics team for Logistics assessments Is CBHFA active: Joint External Evaluation (JEE): - Yes Data Sources National Action Plan for Health Security: - No CBHFA activities: 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index (v0.1.2) - 2 Global Health Security Index (GHSI) (2019) Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA): No 3 Prevent Epidemics ReadyScore (2019) 4 WHO Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) Healthcare system capacity (per 1,000 population)8, 7 No Health topics taught: and Health Security (2020) - 5 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (2020) 6 IFRC Federation-wide databank and reporting system (2018) - Hospital bed(s) (2020) 7 World Bank Open Data Community Engagement & Accountability 8 Imperial College London (ICL) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) 3 Physician(s) (2017) 18 (CEA) 9 IFRC Disaster Law Database (IDRL) (2020) 10 IFRC National Society Directory (2018) 14 Nurse(s) and midwi(ves) (2016) 11 IFRC Go (2020) HR Capacity: 12 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020) 13 IFRC COVID-19 Government Actions (2020) - Community healthcare worker(s) (-) 3-Day Training/ToT 14 IFRC MHPSS: Survey (2019) 15 Global Advisory Panel on Corporate Governance and Risk Management of Blood Services in Red Cross and Red Crescent RCRC Movement Presence Structure: Societies. Global Mapping - Red Cross / Red Crescent National - Society involvement in country blood programs, 2018. IFRC Region:9, 10 Europe 16 Business Continunity Planning/Medical capacity mapping (2020) 17 IFRC CBHFA: Survey (2019) No Programs: 18 IFRC Community Engagement & Accountability: Map (2019) IFRC CCST:9, 10 - - 19 IFRC Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program 20 IFRC Community-based Surveillance (2020) 9, 10 - 21 IFRC Global Safe Water Initiative (GWSI) Portal (2018) IFRC Country Office: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support 22 IFRC Disaster Risk Reduction: Global mapping (2018) 14 23 IFRC Social Inclusion capacity mapping (2019) IFRC Status agreement:9, 10 - (MHPSS) 24 IFRC National Society Development (2019) 9, 10 IFRC Bank account: - Number of volunteers trained in: Found incomplete, incorrect, or out of date 9, 10 Basic Psychosocial support (PSS): 6 information?Ideas on how to improve? Please share Corresponding language: English Psychological First Aid (PFA): 3 your feedback. 12 ICRC Presence: Yes Number of highly skilled volunteers: Social Workers (0), Psychologist (0), Psychiatrist (0), Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) (0) Partner National Societies (financial support):6 Belgian Red Cross Nepal Red Cross Society, Indonesian 8 current Psychosocial (PSS) activities: Red Cross Society, Indian Red Cross Society, Red Restoring Family Links, Anti-stigma activities, Caring Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Yemen for staff and volunteers, Gender and diversity Red Crescent Society, Jordan National Red Crescent mainstreaming, Peer support, Psychological first aid, Society, Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Italian Red Cross, Self-care awareness, Volunteer support Red Cross Society of Niger, Norwegian Red Cross 2 current Mental Health (MH) activities: Counselling, Training of community actors in basic Demography psychological support 7 Population: 4,599,533 6 MHPSS target populations: Adolescents, Migrants, Prisoners and/or their families, Population over 65:7 14% People affected by violence, People affected by war and Income level:7 High income armed conflict, Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence Urban (percentage):7 62% Other programming19, 20, 6, 21, 22, 23 IFRC Operations (last 5 years).
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