Bangladesh Red Crescent Society COVID-19 preparedness profile (as of May 5, 2020)

Risk & Hazards Pre-hospital care: Yes

1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index Health Centre(s): Yes

Hazard & Lack coping Hospital(s): Yes Vulnerability Risk class Exposure capacity Higher Education: Yes (Holy Family Red Crescent Medical 5.7 3.9 4.6 High College Hospital (HFRCMH)) INFORM COVID-19 risk rank: 48 of 191 countries Programmes Highlighted INFORM COVID-19 sub-components 17 Socio-Economic Vulnerability: 5.3 Community-based Health & First Aid (CBHFA)

Food Security: 4.3 Is CBHFA active: Yes Gender Based Violence (GBV): 4.9 5 CBHFA activities: Movement (international & national): 1.2 Development / Peacetime Context, Emergency, Outbreak Response Context, Schools, Recovery Behaviour (awareness & trust)): 7.0 12 Health topics taught: Governance (effectiveness & corruption): 7.0 Non-Communicable Disease (NCD), Communicable Disease Prevention, Behaviour Change, Road Safety, Voluntary Blood Donation, Violence Prevention, Access to healthcare: 5.3 Maternal and Newborn Child Health, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Immunisations, First Aid, WASH, Health in Emergencies Health context Community Engagement & Accountability (CEA)18 Global Health Security Index:2 113 out of 195 HR Capacity: Global Health Security preparedness levels: Deployable Delegate Tier 1, Deployable Delegate Tier 2, 3-Day Training/ToT Structure: Preventing pathogens: Least prepared - Early detection/reporting of epidemics: More prepared 7 Programs: Perception or Satisfaction Surveys, Complaint and Feedback Mechanisms, Responding & mitigating spread: Least prepared Rumour Tracking, Radio Programming, Media and Social Media, SMS/Whatsapp Treat the sick & protect health workers: Least prepared Messaging, Mobile Cinema 14 Commitments (HR, funding & norms): More prepared Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)

Risk/vulnerability to biological threats: Most at risk Number of volunteers trained in: Basic Psychosocial support (PSS): 2 3 ReadyScore: 50 out of 100 Psychological First Aid (PFA): 20

GHS process engagement4, 5 Number of highly skilled volunteers: Social Workers (0), Psychologist (0), Psychiatrist (0), Community Healthcare Joint External Evaluation (JEE): Completed Workers (CHWs) (0) 14 current Psychosocial (PSS) activities: National Action Plan for Health Security: Completed Restoring Family Links, Addressing basic needs for volunteers, Awareness Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA): Yes Campaigns, Caring for staff and volunteers, Child friendly spaces, Community events, Family friendly activities, Gender and diversity mainstreaming, Life skills activities, Peer support, Recreational activities, Rehabilitation, Support groups, Healthcare system capacity (per 1,000 population)8, 7 Volunteer support 1.8 Hospital bed(s) (2020) 0 current Mental Health (MH) activities: No mental health activities 1 Physician(s) (2017) 9 MHPSS target populations: 0 Nurse(s) and midwi(ves) (2017) Adolescents, Children, Families of missing persons, Internally displaced persons, 1 Community healthcare worker(s) (2012) Migrants, People affected by violence, People affected by war and armed conflict, Persons with physical health issues, Sexual and gender minorities RCRC Movement Presence Other programming19, 20, 6, 21, 22, 23 IFRC Region:9, 10 Asia Pacific People reached IFRC CCST:9, 10 - Program: Active: Direct: Indirect: IFRC Country Office:9, 10 Bangladesh

IFRC Status agreement:9, 10 Yes Epidemic/Pandemic: No - -

IFRC Bank account:9, 10 Yes CBS: No - -

Corresponding language:9, 10 English Health (all program): No - -

12 ICRC Presence: Yes WASH: Yes - -

DRR: Yes - -

Partner National Societies (financial support):6 Social Inclusion: No - - American Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, Austrian Red Cross, Bahrain Red Crescent Society, Belgian Red Cross, British Red Cross, The Canadian Red Long-term programmes: No - - Cross Society, Red Cross Society of China, Danish Red Cross, Finnish Red Cross, Italian Red Cross, Japanese Red Cross Society, Luxembourg Red Cross, First Aid: No (0 volunteers trained) Maldivian Red Crescent, The Netherlands Red Cross, New Zealand Red Cross, Norwegian Red Cross, Red Cross of Monaco, The Republic of Korea National National Society capacity strenghtening and development 24 Red Cross, Singapore Red Cross Society, Swedish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross, processes Turkish Red Crescent Society, German Red Cross, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Qatar Red Crescent Society, Red Crescent Society of the Cash preparedness - Self assessment 4. Implementation (2021), Logistics - United Arab Emirates, Philippine Red Cross, Red Crescent Society of Uzbekistan, Logistics Development Orientation (2019), NS PER - Orientation (2019), OCAC Malaysian Red Crescent Society Fiji Red Cross Society, Malaysian Red Crescent - Phase 1 Assessment (2018), PMER - Assessment (2015) Society, The Solomon Islands Red Cross, Nepal Red Cross Society About: Country profiles Demography

The purpose of this document is to help outline National Society risk as well as capacities for preparedness, Population:7 149,273,778 containment, and mitigation of COVID-19. This document pulls existing IFRC and public information to inform Population over 65:7 5% about country-level risk and hazards, health context, Movement representation, National Society programs and services, and coordination mechanisms. 7 Income level: Lower middle income INFORM and GHSI methodology and details on how to read the severity scales are available in the link below, in the links in the data source section. Urban (percentage):7 31% For more information on National Society capacity strengthening and development processes, please contact: • National Society Development (NSD) for Organisational Capacity Assessment and Certification (OCAC) IFRC Operations (last 5 years) and Branch Organizational Capacity Assessment (BOCA) • Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery (DCPRR) for National Society Preparedness DREF & Appeals11 for Effective Response (PER) and cash preparedness • Logistics team for Logistics assessments Epidemics Non-Epidemics Total Count 0 9 9 Data Sources CHF 0 65,350,533 65,350,533 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index (v0.1.2) 2 Global Health Security Index (GHSI) (2019) 3 Prevent Epidemics ReadyScore (2019) All IFRC supported responses (last 5 yrs): 4 WHO Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) and Health Security (2020) Cyclone Bulbul (2019), Monsoon Floods (2019), displacement due to embankment 5 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (2020) 6 IFRC Federation-wide databank and reporting system (2018) collap (2018), Floods (2017), Cyclone Mora (2017), Population Movement (2017), 7 World Bank Open Data Floods (2016), Cyclone Roanu (2016), Cyclone Komen (2015) 8 Imperial College London (ICL) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) 9 IFRC Disaster Law Database (IDRL) (2020) 10 IFRC National Society Directory (2018) 11 IFRC Go (2020) 12 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020) Bangladesh Red Crescent Society 13 IFRC COVID-19 Government Actions (2020) 14 IFRC MHPSS: Survey (2019) 15 Global Advisory Panel on Corporate Governance and Risk 13, 9, 6 Management of Blood Services in Red Cross and Red Crescent Mandate and resources Societies. Global Mapping - Red Cross / Red Crescent National Society involvement in country blood programs, 2018. NS Auxiliary role recognized: - 16 Business Continunity Planning/Medical capacity mapping (2020) 17 IFRC CBHFA: Survey (2019) IDRL Law/Mechanism: - 18 IFRC Community Engagement & Accountability: Map (2019) 19 IFRC Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program 20 IFRC Community-based Surveillance (2020) Branches and warehouses: 66 21 IFRC Global Safe Water Initiative (GWSI) Portal (2018) 22 IFRC Disaster Risk Reduction: Global mapping (2018) 23 IFRC Social Inclusion capacity mapping (2019) Staff (% accidental insurance): 1,500 (0%) 24 IFRC National Society Development (2019)

Volunteers (% a. insurance): 2,000 (0%) Found incomplete, incorrect, or out of date information? Ideas on how to improve? Youth (6-29 yrs) (% volunteers): - (-%) Please share your feedback.

Continuity of care (MHPSS:14 PSS support for Staff. PSS support for Volunteers.

Medical services15, 16