Inclusion of migrants and refugees in preparedness and response to biological disasters: Case study of the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper provides evidence, recommendations and lessons about good practice that can inform and strengthen responses to COVID-19, a crisis that will continue, for the foreseeable future, to have complex impacts on migrants and migration worldwide. The paper also aims to support broader crisis management and development efforts.
Key messages from the publication include:
- This report demonstrates a very wide range of examples of good policies and practices that have been developed and applied by a variety of stakeholders to support migrants and refugees during the COVID-19 crisis.
- This report demonstrates a very wide range of examples of good policies and practices that have been developed and applied by a variety of stakeholders to support migrants and refugees during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Evidence of migrants’ specific vulnerability to the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic is overwhelming.
- Coping with the impacts of the pandemic, maintaining service provision, developing recovery pathways and increasing resilience require multisectoral, multistakeholder and all-of-society approaches.