This National Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan ensures that a coordinated, effective and functional preparedness and response mechanism is in place at each level of the health system with the capacity to address disease outbreaks and other health threats. The Plan defines the following objectives: defining clear roles and responsibilities of all the actors involved in emergency preparedness and response activities; describing procedures and coordination among and across responding agencies to ensure an effective operation; specifying activities involved in emergency preparedness and response; providing evidence-based approach to emergency preparedness and response. This Plan provides for: further enhancing in building national capacities to manage public health emergencies and to further improve health security; creating a national mechanism to collectively monitor progress, facilitate learning for continuous improvement, and improve national preparedness and response; attracting national and external financial and technical resources. The preparedness and response structure concerns: risk assessment, surveillance system, compensation policy, national coordination and governance, management of public health emergencies, improvement of food security measures, promotion of a vaccination strategy to enhance immunisation, animal disease surveillance system, One Health approach.
Libéria · 2023-01-01