Early action database

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BDRCS provides first aid support to local people during the cash disbursementand while providing evacuation support in all three districts. This is because while moving with assets people may suffer from minor injury. Also, while waiting in the distribution booth many of the beneficiaries feel sick and needed first aid assistance to recover.

Additional resources

View project page here. 

Read study here.

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Provision of First Aid to the affected people at the warm-up shelters.

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Replenishment of common cereal banks, to be sold at a 50% subsidized price

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Provision of hot meals to homeless people (including street children), older people, low-income single mothers, people with special needs.
Provision of hot meal to drivers and passengers who postpone further travel due to the cold wave alert and are evacuated to the shelters because of the road closure.

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Distribution of essential food commodities to ensure people have sufficient supplies for a minimum of 7 days or longer primarily depending on forecast. 

Additional resources

Visit the country page here.

Visit the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan FbF project page here. 

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Distribution of essential food commodities to ensure people have sufficient supplies during the cold wave period (approximately one week). 

Additional resources

Visit the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan FbF project page here.

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Dissemination of food parcels to vulnerable families to enable people to shelter at home during the heat.

Multi hazard considerations

During COVID-19 volunteers were required to wear masks, gloves and where possible, face shields; Physical distancing was enforced for volunteers and beneficiaries; Face masks and bottles of hand sanitizer to be added to hygiene kits; Hand sanitizer was available at all distribution points; Distributions were conducted in shaded open air locations whenever possible and water bottles were provided to prevent people from overheating; Increased quantity of hand sanitizer was distributed to beneficiaries

Additional resources

Visit the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan FbF project page here.

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Food is distributed at evacuation shelters to encourage people to evacuate and ensure they are healthy at the shelters

Additional resources

View project page here.

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Distribute food/water assistance at evacuation centres or hard to reach areas.

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Identification of alternative locations for learning on high ground.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance on AA of education here. 

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WASH messaging to ensure children and communities know how to access safe drinking water and reduce likelihood of water-born and other diseases.

Sharing lifesaving messages for children to stay safe during the weather hazard.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance on AA of education here. 

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Actions to prevent or mitigate damage or destruction of schools and other learning spaces due to hazard or impact of hazard, inlcuding cash-transfers to school communities ahead of anticipated hazard (e.g to assist protective actions for school infrastructure and supplies).

Additional resources

See the full guidance here. 

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Action to deliver key services through schools to prevent or mitigate impact of a particular hazard, such as advance provision of mental health and psychosocial support information, action to develop children’s interpersonal skills to identify and support peers in distress, child protection messages and update of referral protocols and refresher trainings.

Distribution of hazard-specific Education in Emergencies (EiE) kits to schools ahead of anticipated hazard.

Teacher training and sharing of updated information on risks, mitigation, and protection measures for learners, teachers, caregivers and community members, including refresher trainings on psychological first aid (PFA), lifesaving messages, and referral pathways for teachers.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance here

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Actions to identify or establish alternative and accessible learning spaces in advance of crisis if schools risk being used as shelters. 

Actions to establish provision of remote learning materials if schools risk being used as shelters.

Distribution of hazard-specific Education in Emergencies (EiE) kits to schools ahead of anticipated hazard.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance here. 

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Action to deliver key services through schools to prevent or mitigate impact of a particular hazard, such as provision of water, food, or update of health and protection referral protocols and refresher trainings. Ensuring an inclusive approach that includes all girls and boys and children with disabilities. For example, targeted WASH provision in schools ahead of drought-induced crisis or cholera alert.

Work with school management identify teachers at risk or with particular support needs.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance here. 

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Risk information and lifesaving messages to ensure teachers and children have updated knowledge and skills to keep themselves, families and communities safe in relation to the specific hazard.

Refresher trainings on psychological first aid (PFA), lifesaving messages, and referral pathways for teachers.

Additional resources

Access the full AA for education guidance here. 

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Use of sandbags to mitigate flood damage to education facilities (flood).

Reinforcing roofs, doors and windows and use of sandbags (cyclone/typhoon).

Provision of waterproof bags/floating bags or tarps to protect teaching and learning supplies.

Cash-transfers to school communities to assist protective actions for school infrastructure and supplies.

Additional resources

Access the general guidance for AA in education here. 

Detail of action

Save the Children piloted the distribution of 1,500 multisectoral kits aimed to respond to immediate needs of vulnerable population in WASH, protection, shelters. Save the Children also helped more than 50 schools in western regions of Madagascar to be better prepared to cope with natural hazards by reinforcing roofs and doors and windows. Ahead of cyclone Freddy that hit the south-eastern region of Madagascar, Save the Children also distributed sandbags and tools to school committees to reinforce roofs at the level of primary public schools and waterproof bags to keep the pupils’ supplies protected from the rain. Save the children also dispatched communication materials in schools and villages enhancing recommended behaviours for children during the three-day window before the cyclone made landfall and child-friendly messages for children to stay safe.

As a result of these actions, most households and school roofs held up thanks to materials and prevention messages disseminated ahead of cyclone Freddy. Children were able to resume school quickly with temporary learning spaces.

Most materials and equipment were purchased and prepositioned before the beginning of the cyclone and rainy season thanks to diverse sources of funding (including Start Ready, ECHO) and optimal coordination and pooling of resources with the MoE and UNICEF.

There were a number of concrete lessons learned from this intervention:

Improve the quality of waterproof bags for keeping pupils’ supplies safe (consider pouches that are reusable and long-lasting over time).

Provide all schools with metallic boxes to keep teaching materials and strategic documents safe from the wind and the rain.

Combine the distribution of materials to children with messaging on child protection during emergency.

Include pre-positioning stock of materials (ie. Metal sheets, nails, tools) to help communities to repair schools with moderate damages (especially for community schools where the community is responsible for construction and maintenance of school facilities)

Adapt audio sessions on socio-emotional learning and dissemination in south-eastern regions of Madagascar during contingency planning (prior to the cyclone and rainy season) to maximise its use after cyclone.

Greater involvement of teachers in preparedness activities (ie. training on how to use audio sessions) and in identification and implementation of anticipatory actions.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance on AA of education here. 

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Targeted hardware and software WASH provision in schools ahead of disease alert.

School-level standard operating procedures agreed and communicated to prevent disease spread.

Refresh referral pathways and protocols between school and health facilities.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance on AA of education here. 

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Identification of alternative locations for learning that are cooler / warmer.

Additional resources

Access the full guidance on AA of education here.