COVID-19 Emergency Response and Recovery

Summary of the project: BEE-Group has been implementing the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Recovery project in Khajura Rural Municipality of Banke district and Badhaiyatal Rural Municipality of Bardiya district with the partnership of CARE Nepal and funding support of Australian Aid. The project aims to address the immediate needs of COVID-19 under health security and economic recovery at the local level while ensuring stability and longer-term sustainability by working in two domains. In addition to this, the project is to provide support to the local health system for enabling and addressing the root causes by meeting the immediate needs of overwhelmed components of the health system to reduce transmission and strengthen infection, prevention and control.  

Under domain 1, the project will support in strengthening the local health system, structure and mechanism by enhancing the capacity of local government in formulating policies and plans related to emergency response and preparedness, COVID-19 response/disease outbreak and recovery and build the capacity of health workers and local government by monitoring the risk for existing and potential emergencies. The intervention will also strengthen the agency of women and girls' leaders/decision-makers to mainstream their voices in decision making spaces.

Under domain 2, the project will support local government in meeting the immediate needs of the community through strengthening supply chain management in collaboration with the actors of the private sector, prepositioning and mobilization of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs). The project will also support in strengthening capacity of the health and early recovery clusters at district and local levels for a well-coordinated response

Overall objectives: To contribute in creating a stable system, approaches and capacities in local government to respond to the COVID-19 crisis linking to longer-term recovery.

The project implementation approaches. 

1. Collaboration with the local government and supporting on their response and recovery priorities.
2. Support in localization of policies and plans. 
3. Flexible and responsive to the changing context.
4. Evidence based intervention based on Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) finding.