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Pandemic Influenza Contingency (PIC),

UNSIC

Substantive planning for:

1) pandemic containment and

2) responding to the pandemic crisis: 

1) National readiness Best Practice

• Organization & planning

• Coordination

• Operational continuity of infrastructure

• Communications

National readiness main elements

Coverage of contingency planning for essential services in Coverage of contingency planning for essential services in 15 National Pandemic Preparedness Plans in Asia Pacific 15 National Pandemic Preparedness Plans in Asia Pacific

Total economies = 15 (UNSIC/PIC May 2007)

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Finance and Banking

Military Forces

Telecommunications

Power and Electricity

Fire service

FoodSupplies/Production/Distribution

Labour and Social Affairs,Insurance

Health and Ambulance Services

Public Transportation

Private Business

Water and/or Sanitation

Police and Prisons

Burial/mortuary services

Indicators Of Pandemic Readiness For 7 Selected Countries

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Need Of Phase 6Actors Needs to be Engaged

Responsibility Of Implementing Vulnerable GroupsEngage Local ActorsCommunication Strategy

Finance Defence Telecoms Energy

FoodHealth Transport Water Law And Order Burial

No Of Countries with a YES

Indicators Of Pandemic Readiness For 6 Selected Countries

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Yemen

Uganda

South Africa

Malawi

Kyrgystan

Czech

Czech

Kyrgystan

Malawi

South Africa

Uganda

Yemen

% of Indicators Positive on Basis of Available Paper Plan

10 areas for attention- Rule of law - Financial sector

- Public utilities - Communications

- Local level - Citizens engaged

- The vulnerable - Who does what?

- Public, private, civil, media partnership

- Lower capacity countries

A strategy for improvement

- measure progress in national influenza pandemic preparedness,

- advocate the need for improvement, - help -- develop and deploy tools that help partners improve preparedness.

Integrating this new risk into

the work of existing structures

1) National readiness

2) Humanitarian readiness

• Existing humanitarian operations

• New vulnerable groups

• ... worst in lowest capacity countries

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