This good practice was developed by the IOM office in Panama, seeking to improve community health surveillance and the evaluation of epidemic-prone diseases, by strengthening community response capacity of the regional and local authorities and communities that received Venezuelan population flows in Panama.

This initiative was implemented in order to improve the health response, public health surveillance systems and cross-border coordination in the geographical areas with the largest migrant population in Panama, enabling the continuity of health services, and multinational coordination, thus strengthening community capacity to prevent outbreaks and other health conditions among Venezuelan migrants and host communities in the country.