Pandemic response – RESEMBID https://resembid.org Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID) Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:47:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.6 Project Spotlight https://resembid.org/project-spotlight-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=project-spotlight-7 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:24:03 +0000 https://2022-resembid-website.azurewebsites.net/?p=3471 Travelling Post-COVID-19 can still be a challenging experience. This is another RESEMBID regional project that will work with four Caribbean islands to build resilience and response to the national visitor management systems in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao , St Maarten. 
This will include a Best Practice Guide for Tourism Stakeholders in Contagion Scenarios as well as capacity building for key supporting persons in the tourism sector of the participating Overseas Caribbean Territories (OCTs).
This project will allow enable the safest way for tourism to continue on these beautiful islands!

Implementing partner: The Association of Caribbean States (ACS)

]]> Project Spotlight https://resembid.org/project-spotlight-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=project-spotlight-4 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:40:53 +0000 https://2022-resembid-website.azurewebsites.net/?p=3461 Having the systems in place to cope with and bounce back from a pandemic such as COVID-19 is critical to all countries, particularly small islands states. The Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) in the Cayman Islands will be able to put in stronger systems to manage the impacts of COVID-19 while doing its vital work on coral reef resilience. A part of that system will be improving safeguards and hygiene, protocols and emergency management for staff, students as well as local and international visitors to the facility.

]]> Our Pandemic response for 12 OCTs https://resembid.org/our-pandemic-response-for-islands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-pandemic-response-for-islands Tue, 24 May 2022 09:24:43 +0000 https://2022-resembid-website.azurewebsites.net/?p=3311 In response to the global pandemic and the far-reaching implications for the small open economies of the OCTs, the RESEMBID team spontaneously created the Pandemic Resilience Response Facility. It was successfully launched on 5th April 2020.

In record time, the Facility earmarked flexibly €10 million specifically to fund pandemic Resilience response actions for all the 12 OCTs. It was structured as a purpose-designed, fast-track, flexible response tool for the OCTs to confront the challenges of responding to the pandemic. It incorporates a degree of derogation and delegation granted by the European Union and Expertise France to enable rapid response and agile, simplified processes.

Funds can be used for:

  • Strengthening of institutional capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Provision of technical support to primary institutional stakeholders and frontline entities
  • Staff training and the deployment of response teams
  • Technical assistance for pandemic response strategy and policy development
  • Equipment and supplies specifically related to COVID-19 crisis response needs
  • Public education and community mobilisation programmes.

 

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