From quarantine centers to emergency shelters, humanitarian responses to populations affected by the COVID19 pandemic and hurricanes: lessons from El Salvador and Honduras
During the COVID-19 pandemic, El Salvador and Honduras were affected by hurricanes and tropical storms, affecting migrants and internally displaced populations in temporary emergency shelters. Both missions worked together to provide adequate living conditions in temporary shelters for displaced people, promoting their access to their rights in line with minimal humanitarian standards while advocating measures to prevent the COVID-19 contagion.
Beneficiaries
Returning migrants, internally displaced population (by tropical storms and hurricanes) and governmental counterparts.
Main Actions
- Shelter habilitation and adaptation according minimal humanitarian standards.
- Dissemination of COVID-19 prevention messages during natural events.
- Use of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) to assess and identify the needs of the beneficiary population.
- Non-food items and food items distribution.
Recommendations
- Use the DTM to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based humanitarian response.
- The mission was able to address the challenges of working with communities in conflict environments by effectively communicating its interventions to community leaders.
- Coordination between missions under similar contexts and with regional technical specialists (RTS) facilitated the intervention.
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