Animal and Pandemic Influenza Coordination Resources Guide
Animal and Pandemic Influenza Coordination Resources Guide
A resource guide for United Nations Country Teams
As more countries are affected by avian and pandemic influenza, the establishment of effective structures and mechanisms to respond to these threats must remain a priority for United Nations Country Teams. With these priorities in mind and with concern for other potential health or multisectoral threats, much can be learned from experience and lessons from the country level.
This online resource guide aims to help UN Country Teams around the globe provide effective coordination to support integrated national avian and pandemic influenza strategies and responses. It also aims to raise awareness of the basic principles and building blocks required to establish effective, transparent and active coordination.
The documents below provide an overview of the current and evolving coordination context, and outline the basic components of coordination that have been established a country level, showing the alignment with government coordination structures and the inter-linkages between them. The guide highlights the basic principles of good coordination, as well as provides a number of sample tools and examples of country level good practice to support this work. Country coordination structures from a number of countries are documented, as well as lessons learned from past UN work on avian and pandemic influenza.
The online resource guide demonstrates how avian and pandemic influenza coordination is a good example of a ‘quality improvement’ approach, which facilitates an evolving coordination process that is participatory and results oriented, and develops ways of gaining new insights into coordination processes and their facilitation.
The guide is primarily designed to support UN Country Teams, UN Resident Coordinators and UN Avian and Pandemic Influenza Focal Points. It may also support UN staff engaged in coordination at a technical level and act as a resource for those working at a regional and global level to provide support to those implementing coordination structures, systems and tools at the country level. It is also intended as a resource for UN teams responsible for coordination around other complex and multisectoral issues such as natural disaster relief or food crises.
The online resource guide is based on the Avian and Pandemic Influenza Coordination Resource Guidebook, which was produced by the United Nations System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) and UN Country Teams in 2008.
- Overview
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Section 1: The building blocks of effective coordination
- Section 2: The coordination cycle: recommended approach to establishing API coordination systems at the country level
- Section 3: Country case studies of API coordination
- Section 4: Lessons learned in coordination
- Section 5: Coordination toolkit – specific tools to support effective API coordination
- Template of API coordination checklist to facilitate aligned support for national strategies
- Guidelines for UN API coordination terms of reference
- Guidelines for API coordination forums and working groups
- Guidelines for API stakeholder mapping tool
- Guidelines for API activities and funding matrix
- Guidelines and template of information bulletins
- Guidelines for events calendars
- Guidelines for API country coordination self-assessment tools
- Guiding questions for use when establishing and managing the coordination cycle
- Example of UN API Coordination Management Structure (Thailand)
- Example of UN Pandemic Influenza Advisor Terms of Reference (Indonesia)
- Example of Health and Quarantine Procedures and Operation Standards at Port (China)
- Example of a information toolkit (Indonesia)
- Section 6: Links to additional useful API material
- National AHI response structures of countries in AP region
- Sample contact information database
- Sample contact information database II
- Sample AHI funding matrix
- Sample donor funding matrix
- AI funding matrix, Cambodia
- Sample events calendar
- Sample partners activities matrix
- Sample stakeholder activities matrix
- Sample TOR for partners group on AHI
- Cambodia AI Bulletin 269 (4 Jan 2011)
- Cambodia AI Bulletin 217 (24 Aug 2010)
