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o Coordinate WHO response teams at provincial and district level and ensure that
WHO supported activities accordance with the ERF 2, and in line with the
Department of health priorities.
o Participate /Conduct regular coordination meetings with National and or
Subnational (Province and District) Incident management teams and partners to
facilitate the overall health response, exchange information, produce and
circulate minutes, related decisions and tracking the latter.
o Plan and facilitate Intra-action reviews (IAR) and develop detailed “lessons
learnt” reports, recommending coordination mechanisms and improvement to
field operations.
o Communicate priorities, plans, needs and concerns related to the CHOLERA
response to the Incident management team, information pertaining to the
CHOLERA response and specific challenges that require multi-sectoral action.
o Support IMT Leads and pillar leads to identify urgent technical gaps and training
needs in relation to technical standards and protocols for the CHOLERA
response; identify opportunities for sustainable capacity building in collaboration
with partners.
o Ensure appropriate links among humanitarian actions and longer-term health
sector plans, incorporating the concept of “building back better” into the
CHOLERA recovery plan.
o Actively participate in the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the
CHOLERA situation, recommending appropriate actions and innovative
approaches, to fill the identified health service delivery gaps.
o Provide expert advice to other Provinces and districts through the IMTs; identify
effective tools to bridge the gaps between needs and capacities of response
teams and strategies to overcome obstacles.
o Support the review and development of Provincial CHOLERA resurgence plans,
recovery plans, as well as other contingency planning for potential new events
and ensure proper linkages with the incident management system, disaster risk
reduction, relief and recovery to complement national health sector
preparedness/response plans.
o Support national (health system) capacity building in emergency preparedness
and response in accordance with the IHR 2005, the IASC emergency response
preparedness (ERP) approach and other related guidance
o Support analysis of outbreak intelligence data, with other team members, for
epidemic forecasting and detection, guide team members on data quality
improvement, use of data for monitoring of trends, ALERT and ACTION
thresholds (triggers), as well as methodologies for performing data quality audit
(DQA).
o Contribute to the preparation of other WHO and health cluster communication
products (situation reports, health cluster bulletins, donors’ alerts, and other ad-
hoc reports).
o Represent WHO in coordination meetings with partners, stakeholders involved in
CHOLERA response at the sub-national level.
o Perform any other cluster related incident-specific duties, as required by the
functional supervisor.
NB: During deployment, the duty station may change, and duties may be modified
based upon the technical needs of the Programme.