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H2P

Human Pandemic Preparedness (H2P) Initiative was created to promote pandemic preparedness in less developed countries.  This USAID initiative brings together the IFRC, AED, CORE, InterAction, OCHA, and other partners into a joint effort. To learn about H2P visit the portal.

http://pandemicpreparedness.org/

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  • This is a space documents the second regional meeting for H2P in Pretoria, South Africa which was held July 13, 14, and 15

This is a space documents the second regional meeting for H2P in Pretoria, South Africa which was held July 13, 14, and 15

Pandemic preparedness

Mounting concern about the inevitability of a pandemic due to influenza has lead to global support for disaster planning efforts in many less developed countries.  A three days meeting in Pretoria, South Africa provided government agencies and civil society organizations in southern and west Africa with perspectives, information, and materials to help them participate in the global effort to prepare for a pandemic.  
 
The three day meeting began with a table top exercise especially designed to help civil society organizations to assess the threat and their capacity to respond to a pandemic. On the second and third days, regional and global experts offered state-of-the art tools and approaches that have been prepared for use in the region.  
 
Organizations from South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe,  Namibia, Angola, Nigeria, Madagascar,  Mozambique, Liberia, DR Congo, Malawi, Ghana, Botswana, and Sierra Leon attended.Meeting design document
 
 
MPRI materials

Materials from Addis meeting



Download the materials from Pretoria at ftp://216.194.226.18/ The link includes all material that was made available on the thumb drive distributed at the end of the meeting

Link to After Action Report

Link to Summary of Participants Evaluation










 

Annoucements

Meeting materials and "After Action Report" was emails to Pretoria participants on July 28th.

Registration for the Pretoria meeting closed July 7th.

In response to the WHO annoucement of Phase 6 alert the Pretoria meeting will go into an "accelerated response" mode.  The meeting will emphasize response as well as planning for pandemic.

Rick Lent will not be available to facilitate the Pretoria meeting.  Sharon Brownfield, another very experienced facilitator, will work with us for this meeting.

Reminder invitations were send to NGOs and governments on June 8-9.

Speakers are welcome to post materials on this site. Contact us

The H2P meeting to be held July 13, 14. and 15, 2009 is being organized for USAID by InterAction, the largest coalition of U.S.-based international NGOs focused on the world's poor and most vulnerable people.  1400 Sixtheenth Street, NW, Suite 210 Washington, DC 20036 202-667-8227 http://www.interaction.org

A "save-the-date" email was sent to a broad list of InterAction members and partners on April 2, 2009.

Invitations to NGOs were sent out on May 15.  For a registration form click here.

Invitations to governments were sent out on May 21st. 

Useful links

  
Current time in Washington DC, Geneva, and Pretoria
 
 
 








Planning calender

March 15    Finalize date for conference
March 30    Finalize venue
April     5    First invitations to speakers
April     2    "Save the date" emails go out
May    5   Registration opens, invitations emailed
May      1   Debrief on Addis meeting and adjust design
May 1-14   Work with speakers to develop program
May    15   Send preliminary program to speakers


Meeting planners, partners, and roles

USAID               - funding and guidence
InterAction         - lead techical and logistic role
MPRI                 - providing table top exercise day one
OCHA                - speakers and guidence
WHO                 - speakers and guidence
IFRC                  - speakers and invite, support NS participation
CORE                - speakers and invite, support selected NGOs
AED                   - speakers and guidence
Conference Call   - Pretoria firm doing logistics on ground
Rick Lent            -  meeting consultant and facilitator
 
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