Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics
Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics
How health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to, and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach.
The authors present current evidence on how climate change impacts on social and environmental determinants of health and the link between these determinants and the vulnerability of local communities. They outline proven community-based interventions that local populations in developing countries can scale-up and take ownership of in order to strengthen their resilience to climate-sensitive diseases and conditions.
This plan aims to reinforce community resilience to food insecurity by strengthening the following areas: access to and availability of food; household food security and nutrition and livelihoods; community-based disaster risk reduction; access to safe water and hygiene, and health awareness.
The plan will unite and support the efforts of partners and contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2, to end hunger and achieve food security, as well as priority actions of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.