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Assisting Georgia's Government and local communities in mitigating COVID-19 impact
summary
Three UN agencies — UNDP, UNICEF, and UNFPA — joined forces to help Georgia’s authorities and communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Implemented in partnership with the Georgian Red Cross Society, the project was supported by US$1,000,000 in funding from the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF).
All activities were aligned with the pandemic response priorities set by the Georgian Government. Special attention was given to gender considerations, recognising that in Georgia, women made up the majority of three key groups on the frontlines: healthcare workers, local civil servants, and vulnerable older adults.
activities
- Supplementing depleted supplies of personal protective equipment (PPEs); providing training on COVID-19 for healthcare workers, particularly outside the main urban areas; and improving the network of hospital facilities that are prepared to deal with patients with COVID-19 complications;
- Restoring access to essential healthcare services for women and children, including immunization, prenatal and postnatal care, in a period in which most hospitals and healthcare systems are preoccupied with the COVID-19 response;
- Restarting the learning progress for children, where interruptions have increased the risk that some children may never return to school without specific interventions and support, and where some children face a heightened risk of neglect, abuse or exploitation without the protective environment of school;
- Filling information gaps on COVID-19 preventive practices; providing home-based learning and care opportunities for children and families; and overcoming the isolation and stress experienced by young people unable to attend school;
- Equipping the Georgian emergency services with the technological tools needed to coordinate an increasing volume of calls for help;
- Equipping local-level authorities with technological and financial resources to identify urgent needs and coordinate emergency support for vulnerable populations;
- Improving protection of elderly and homeless persons, particularly those living in poorer rural areas with limited social services and those elderly living in care homes;
- Providing protective gear to enable non-medical professionals, volunteers and local officials to continue to deliver vital services to local populations;
- Enabling at-risk members of the rural population to engage in agriculture as a coping strategy for the duration of the crisis.
results
- Improved capacity of national agencies and local governments to contain the spread of the virus and respond to urgent community needs
- Enhanced preparedness of local population groups to avert negative health and economic consequences of the COVID pandemic
- Enhanced public health response to reduce COVID-19 transmission and mortality
- Ensuring continuity of health, education and social services to respond to the immediate secondary impacts of COVID-19
Contact Information
Nino Kakubava
Project Manager
nino.kakubava@undp.org