Title:Speaker Series #10 – پاسخ و بازیابی کووید-۱۹ حساس به مهاجر و پناهنده

مجموعه سخنرانان Coronavirus: Sharing Knowledge to Respond with Resilience یک جلسه هفتگی است که توسط شبکه جهانی شهرهای تاب آور (GRCN) و بانک جهانی به عنوان جلسه اشتراک دانش برای شهرها در پاسخ به وضعیت به سرعت در حال تحول COVID-19 برگزار می شود. برای جلسه دهم، همراه با ویتوریا زانوسو، مدیر اجرایی شورای مهاجرت شهرداران، نورا پرسیادو، مدیر امور مهاجران، دفتر شهردار اریک گارستی، لس آنجلس و سامر سالیبا، مشاور فنی شهری، کمیته نجات بین المللی به ما ملحق می شوند. نمونه هایی از شمال و جنوب جهانی را به نمایش خواهد گذاشت. از وب‌سایت Cities for a Resilient Recovery دیدن کنید: https://www.resilientcitiesnetwork.org/

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قسمتي از متن فيلم: You Good afternoon and good evening colleagues and partners and greetings from Singapore my name is Lauren Sorkin and I am the executive director for the global resilient cities Network we are very grateful to our co-hosts from the World Bank team and we’re very fortunate to have three very qualified presenters

Tonight we’re going to speak to us about migrant and refugee sensitive approaches to responding and recovering from covin 19 and before I hand off the microphone to Francis from the World Bank to introduce our speakers I want to remind everyone of the intention of the ground rules for the conversation today the

Purpose of these global speakers series is to have open and honest learning conversations between practitioners and cities and governments and the partners who are supporting those entities these calls are not on the record and we ask that you attribute any comments made tonight to the speakers only if you have

Asked for express permission to do so we are thrilled at the response to this webinar and we have over 500 people registered for this conversation globally to facilitate the discussion as a matter of practicality we ask that during the Q&A you post your Q&A into that function in the chat so you’ll see

It at the bottom of your screen and you can enter your questions there so with that I just want to say thank you for everyone for sharing your time with us this evening and I will pass it over to Francis you Lauren my name is Moses gasps care

First would like to welcome everyone on behalf of the World Bank city resilience program this session as Lauren already mentioned we’ll explore how cities have considered and are integrating migrants and Refugee communities in their response and recovery planning we’ll have two speakers Nora Prasad you from

The city of Los Angeles in Samir Saliba from the International Rescue Committee I’m not going to say much about our speaker simply because we’re very fortunate to have with us today today Victoria sand also executive director at the mayor’s migration conceal who will provide introductory remarks and present

The two speakers Victoria will speak for about five minutes followed by Nora and Samira will each will have been alerted about 15 minutes which should keep ample time for the Q&A again please ask your questions in the Q&A section of the WebEx so we can start grouping them and prioritize them for

The Q&A session without further ado Victoria the screen is yours you Frances Thank You Lauren thank you for having me here today today it’s a very symbolic and important day for me I owe a lot to the 100 resilient cities Network now the GRC n where I grew personally and professionally for over

Six years it seems yesterday that when the Syrian refugee crisis hit in 2015 we convened in Athens chief resilience the officers from Athens and mom Los Angeles Paris and many of the cities that are with us today and that was the first time in the field one of the first times in the

Field where people started to talk about urban migration as a resilience child as a resilience opportunity rather than a challenge where everyone else were was talking about it as a burden a shock and even today with this new shock of Kobe 19 I see the same mayor’s the same city

Leaders countering toxic narratives spreading along with the virus and starting to frame migrants refugees as the resilience asset as the heroes that are providing food and health care to their neighbors to their host communities in the midst of this global pandemic mayor’s don’t do this only

Because it’s the right thing to do they also do it because this market thing to do as every resilience practitioner with us in this virtual room today knows by heart social cohesion is really the secret ingredient of a city’s ability to recover from known and unknown risks or

Resilience shocks mayors so thank you for having me today with you and creating this space where we can really bridge the world of resilience with the world of migration it’s great to see that the global resilient cities network continues the work that we initiated at 100 cities and and that you keep the

Focus on this very important issue I am the executive director of the mayor’s my vision Council as as Francis said and the mayor’s migration council is a nimble team of political advisors and experts led by a group of global mayor’s this group spans from Los Angeles

To a man and Kampala and all in between and when this Corbett crisis hit our mayor’s asked us to arm them and really armed interracial community with practical tools and resources to make sure that global covered responses are inclusive of migrants and refugees we really quickly deployed our resources

And our networks we compiled a library source guide which will launch publicly today as an open source and important in parallel we relentlessly and I would say successfully pushed philanthropies and international funds to unlock resources that act directly to cities and most importantly let’s see these city cities

And city governments be flexible in how they can use these resources I’m sure many of you have seen recent announcements from the open societies foundation and others on this on this effort but field cities have tight budget they have competing priorities they are being asked to do more with less

So while our speakers today will be talking about our cities are responding to the particular and unique needs of migrant and refugee populations will really want to ensure as resilience practitioners that these populations are not dealt with in silos and that every intervention to address their needs also

Benefits other vulnerable groups in the host community this is really to prevent competition over scarce resources this is to build social cohesion and this is to unlock the resilience dividend that you are or you’re all very familiar with I’m sure that’s also because when cities make their plans work for the most

Vulnerable they also make them work for all residents take decades of Los Angeles where mayor Garcetti worked with the private sector and nonprofits to create 20 million Angelino campaign for families in need of income who do not qualify for unemployment this obviously includes undocumented immigrants but also benefits informal workers and other

Vulnerable groups that that might benefit from this intervention and this is so important especially in context of austerity where resources are scarce and CDs really need to be creative and I’m delighted to have nor appreciated the director of the mayor’s office of immigrant Affairs in Los Angeles with us

Today she will present on this campaign and others efforts that the city is taking to make sure that no one is left behind because of their immigration or refugee status while cities in the US and in Europe are more in the response or even the recovery phase we are also

Very actually acutely aware that could be deserving or could potentially have devastating impacts on low-income informal settlements in the global south where the majority of refugees and migrants people live take the case of another city in our leadership board Kampala in Uganda where Lord Mayor areas logo is distributing food himself to vulnerable

Urban residents who cannot access key resources because of the lockdown measures is this match you know this effort is clearly supporting migrants and refugees but is also supporting the vulnerable poor as a broader group and is doing all of these despite bans from the national government so following Nora to cover this

Important aspect of the of the story will have Samir saliba lead urban advisor for the International Rescue Committee he will be speaking to the impact of coverage on urban displaced populations and it will be focusing on Nairobi and my degree I really look forward to these presentations and

Discussions Norah the floor is yours Victoria and Thank You global resilient cities network the mayor’s migration council and the World Bank for the invitation to speak today very happy to be with you all this very early morning here in LA I am the office of immigrant

Affairs here in the city of La is our goal is to integrate immigrants in the city’s social economic and civic fabric and our work is usually done through coordinating city services developing programs and initiatives that address their needs and that promote citizenship civic engagement and we also advocate at

The local state federal level our role has never been more important I think than now during this pandemic and I’m going to share a little bit of the work that we’re doing to address some of the unique needs of our immigrant and Refugee communities during the pandemic you you

The county of LA is a pretty big population here in LA in California our counties made up of 87 other cities aside from the city of La although we are the biggest city we have over 10 million residents in the county and about 3.6 million of them are

Foreign-born half of them are you assistance naturalized and then a quarter about a quarter are lawful permanent residents and a quarter undocumented now in terms of Kovac cases here in the county we have as of yesterday about 35,000 cases 1,600 deaths and about 318,000 tests that have

Been performed so we are we’re playing an important role here in the city in the response as the biggest city we have seen like many of you around the world the disproportionate impact that the Kogan 18 epidemic is having on some populations and by here we’re seeing

That although we only have data dating back to April 26 so it’s a little bit stale and only for about half of the cases that I just mentioned of koban 19 we are seeing that it’s having a disproportionate impact on Latino population where of ten thousand six hundred and ninety-nine cases forty six

Point four of them percent of them were Latino compared to twenty three point seven percent white and others same with the rate of deaths of the 865 reported deaths where we have race and ethnicity we see that 37.1% were Latinos who passed away as a result of Kobe 19 and

So because of this disproportionate impact we’ve had to by implication a lot of those folks happen to be immigrants and Latinos are the highest immigrant group here in LA because of that we’ve had to really address or try to address that this proportion and impact of 19 May 1st the mayor appointed Capri

Maddox as our chief officer of the clover 19 response equity and basically we just want to make sure that we’re looking at every stage of our response to this lens of equity whether it’s testing prevention information about resources and targeted outreach with a lofty goal of a mission towards

Long-term addressing some of the root causes as to why we have those inequitable outcomes that brings us to sort of the meat of the work that we’ve been trying to do with the mayor has been really proactive on having an inclusive action in response to cover 19

And that is not only on the public health side but also on the economic recovery side as Victoria was saying it’s important to ensure that all of the different programs and initiatives are really have this broader impact while immigrants and refugees have specific needs a lot of those things that we’re

Doing to make accessible accessibility easier to all of those responses really are going to benefit many other communities here in LA so in terms of the public health response we have been focused on testing and prevention test seems available to everyone regardless of status regardless of memory of access to insurance or not

We’ve tried to make sure that there is locations in underserved communities large Latino and African American and immigrant population communities ensuring the lerz drive not just drive up sites but walk-up sites that was the barrier as well in terms of healthcare is disseminating the city does not run

Our health care system that County does and so while it’s not under a jurisdiction we’ve really made sure to share information about what’s available for all residents here which is really important and again with the reminder that immigration status shouldn’t be a barrier on the economic impact of the response

There’s two folds there’s what the city’s been trying to do in terms of helping individuals and families we the mayor has created a number of initiatives that include just addressing the super basic basic needs of all Angelenos but again with an eye towards those that are facing really harsh

Financial fallout from this pandemic low-income workers low-income families and again my implication a lot of them happen to be immigrant families he issued things like moratoriums on residential evictions housing stability is a big issue in LA pre-pandemic and so we wanted to make sure that we were addressing that now during this

Pandemic preventing rent increases on some units making sure that things as basic is not having your water and enough energy power and power turned off expanding again senior meals to those most vulnerable and again thinking about accessibility not just to your typical seniors who live alone but for example

In a lot of immigrant communities seniors live in the household with others but that doesn’t mean that they don’t need access to regular meals as well and so there’s been an expansion of the program and then with the school district a high percentage of our children and LA Unified School District

Depend on free lunch or breakfast programs and so closing down the school is one of the main main issues we have to grapple with was how do we take care of all those children who depend on on the school for their food and so there are 63 grab-and-go food centers where

Children can get two meals every day and parents come with them and also want to have a meal of course they’re provided one for businesses and workers I just really meant again the moratorium and evictions and making sure that we’re providing this micro loan program business Cillian school kid that sort of informs

Them of what’s available at the federal state and local level to support them and then also taking care of ensuring that all those workers all those essential workers which again here in LA the vast majority of them happen to be Latino African American and many of them

Immigrant and so they are continuing to work and in a lot of ways exposing themselves to virus to bring food to their family’s tables and so mandating things like face covering be provided and refusing entry to people without face masks filling in the gap in the federal

Program ons they believe to make sure that those people can also avail themselves of that and setting up a job search portal Victoria you were talking about some of the sort of specific strategies of the different cities and in here in the city of LA with deploy to

Address some of the unique needs of populations that we don’t necessarily focus as much on in terms of assessing the safety net gap here it’s been just what you mentioned the industry capital of the world we have a lot of independent contractor self-employed individuals but also a lot of

Individuals out of immigration status in the City of LA alone we have almost 400,000 of them and so one innovative sort of private public partnership has been the mayor’s fund the Angelino fund which created the Angelino program and he had two phases one was basically at the provision of grocery cards and then

The cash assistance for those who were the most needy in the city below the federal poverty level and you can see the amount of money that we’re talking about per family it was a great success in terms of fundraising effort 20 million dollars that are going to about

۲۰,۰۰۰ households to help over 60,000 Angelenos the state of California all of student created their own program which is going to get underway next week with a hundred and fifty million dollars for the entire state so we’re we’re happy to have let the way here in California we’ve also done a lot of

Advocacy at the federal and state level to again ensure that no one is left behind because of the dissin equity we know that it’s important to ensure that the federal and state authorities are also intervening and that means asking the federal government the testing and treatment be inclusive of all the

Financial assistance be inclusive of all unfortunately the federal relief did not include a lot of immigrants a lot of you citizens who are married to undocumented immigrants are also left out living a lot of mixed status families out of any financial relief we’re also doing some

Advocacy at the state level and with our County Partners and the other 88 seven cities just coordinating our work now in terms of the recovery planning an inclusive future we want to make sure that all the public health and economic measures that we are taking are led by public private investment that address

Both equity sustainability and the have input from the community all sectors of the community and that really calls for a budgetary assessment to consider you know what’s going to happen in the short term but also in the long term as we face tremendous it’s an understatement

To say that our budget and it’s it’s going to be really tight and in trouble in the next couple of years at least but we have to think about issues like housing and tenant support access to health care food security all those issues were here pre-pandemic their

Excessive ated now and that we want to think about how do we address them long term and take this as an opportunity to do so other considerations obviously things as simple as as we start to reopen very slowly here we’re starting to enter a phase two think about when you’re opening beaches

We just open the beaches back again yesterday for some exercise active exercise those who live close to the beaches are going to be able to do that and it’s good for mental health people have been in their homes for two months now but what happens to those that don’t

Live in wealthy communities learn mental health outlets who they have we need to think about things as simple as that and continue to just evaluate the accessibility of all the programs and initiatives that we’re putting forward beyond the panic another thing we’ve really focused on has been orchestrating

Issues as I mentioned before the fact that most essential workers here in LA happen to be people of color it’s bringing a lot of issues to the court forefront and we’re working for example in the garment worker industry they’re producing PPE how do we support them through this how do we address some

Other concerns and those that again pre-pandemic existed how do we take advantage of this moment to address them and then obviously we’ve all seen the data lately about when we all shut down our planet was a little bit happier in terms of climate change in sustainability issues so we want to

Ensure that we are thinking about a green future the mayor has been a leading force nationally internationally and and he will continue to do that as we go through the recovery and planning phase just a couple of recommendations since I know that it might be useful to

Other cities as we’re thinking about it and again this is something that we’re thinking about here too and figuring out as we go along into some president at I’m just ensuring I think that all recovery measures are brought reaching as possible again going back to Victoria’s point if it’s helping

Immigrants is probably helping a lot of other underserved communities here in LA and so while we want to keep a focus on specifically my office on underserved communities like in communities there are many others that can benefit when you make things so accessible and easy to reach and easy to

Learn about and we will continue to evaluate the access to programs and initiatives by asking language accessible location accessible regardless of immigration status is there an access to technology barrier are you requiring too much proof identification or documentation and again just making sure that our strategy for getting the word out it’s really

Robust messages that again our language accessible to all our communities we have 12 top languages here in LA so we have to make sure that we are thinking about that and then in terms of I apologize for that in terms of communicating and collaboration with all stakeholders it’s an opportunity to

Maximise on partnerships and create new ones and so we again are learning from a lot of our sister cities around the world and look forward to continued conversations about how we can come out of this pandemic stronger more unified and definitely making those that have been more vulnerable or stable than before

With that I will turn it back to Samir so he can I’m sure with us his thoughts Thank You Maura pleasure to be here thank you so much for having me give me a second as I deal with my myriad screens that are in front of me

To make sure that presentation is up Tori can I get that thumbs-up from you if you can see this okay okay thank you so again thank you for having me and thank you to the mayor’s migration council the World Bank the global resilient cities network for organizing and especially at all the city

Representatives on this call for the work that you’re doing to protect your residents especially the most vulnerable among them thank you especially to Nora for all the work that you’re doing for migrant and refugee Latinos within within LA as mentioned I’m Sam saliba the urban advisor at the International

Rescue Committee where we work in over 40 countries serving people whose lives have been affected by crisis that help them survive recover and regain control of their lives unfortunately with Cova 19 we know that there has been a global increase in the number of people whose

Lives have been affected by a crisis and the IRC estimates that we could see over 1 billion cases of Cova 19 and 3.2 million deaths in the country where the IRC works if we don’t act now and act prudently these preliminary estimates compiled by the IRC are based on epidemiological modeling and data

Produced by the Imperial College of London and the World Health Organization and based on this data for the first six months of our global coed response the era sees priorities were include first keeping our staff and our clients safe building from evidence and quality standards adapting to fast evolving

Needs using technology and other remote approaches ensuring that gender equality it is integrated throughout all aspects of our response and in my opinion perhaps the most importantly supporting local and national response efforts specifically City response plans because as we all know cities are on the frontline of this crisis

But if cities are on the online that means that displaced people internally displaced and refugees are also on the front line this is because as most of you I’m sure know the majority of displaced people live not in camps but in towns and cities around the

World and as you can see on this slide it is predominantly cities on the right side of the globe or the right side of this slide where the majority of displaced reside the status from 2004 those you who have heard me speak before you’ll know that I can’t take a speaking

Request without mentioning that the cities hosting the most displaced resources are doing so with the fewest resources sorry the city is hosting the most displaced residents are doing so with the fewest resources and while we often hear about the fantastic efforts of cities like Los Angeles and the work

That Nora and her team are doing to support Angelino migrants and refugees we as an international community need to do more to support city governments and communities hosting the majority of the world’s displaced as with most issues of social inequity kovat isn’t creating this need but it is shining the

Brightest spotlight on it so let’s take a little bit of a world tour in Nairobi a city where the IRC has a long-standing presence of supporting refugees and vulnerable Kenyans I’m gonna talk specifically about the livelihoods of these populations the majority of whom reside in Nairobi low income informal

Settlements such as Jabara at you see pictured here and you see one of those livelihoods that is likely threatened by Cogan nineteen according to recent data collected by our IRC Kenya team who heard from over 1,000 IRC clients both Kenyans and refugees residing within Nairobi and the surrounding counties

Almost half reported being a victim of Cova 19 in some way well not the case of all of our clients again the majority live in work and work in low-income informal settlements such as East Lee or Kibera and our programming in Nairobi is predominantly livelihood support so that

Has colored the responses somewhat but nonetheless for this sample the majority of clients who have been affected by Cova 19 have lost their source of income and/or have been forced to close their business while a smaller number of people thankfully have been socially cycled cycles socially affected quarantined or

Hospitalized at the same time the prevention measures that they’re taking are limited to the basics of kovat 19 prevention which we all know such as hand-washing or avoiding physical contact but perhaps most importantly this combination of factors affecting our clients is causing them to prioritize food as the primary need with

Rent coming second and for those of you familiar with Nairobi and other cities similar to Nairobi you’ll know that rent tends to be number one pre covered but now given the loss of income its food so whereas rent was first in food was second now we’re seeing food first in

Rent second loss of income is especially a problem for refugees because in addition to the barriers faced by all residents of low-income informal settlements refugees have additional barriers related to their migration status their right to work and discrimination affecting their ability to start a business either because they

Can’t find Kenyans willing to serve as their guarantor or they fear retaliation if they do happen to succeed establishing a business as we’ve heard from some of our clients and the quote you see from one of our Kenyan clients sort of talks about how she wanted to be

A guarantor for a Congolese business but couldn’t find other Kenyans willing to support I think there is where social cohesion really comes into play as as Victoria I mentioned at the beginning what can we do about it first and foremost we can maintain communication with our clients to monitor their

Livelihoods needs as well as other needs this helps keep sure that we don’t lose the progress that they’ve made as well as helps us identify areas of need where we can turn our focus and when we can turn our focus to recovery we’ve also heard that this communication is really

Helpful just from a mental health standpoint letting them know that we are here for them and that other providers are here we also leverage these communication channels to share health and hygiene information which is why you saw so many people reporting that their wash their hands and we rely on referral

Channels with other organizations especially as it relates to cash assistance given that food is the number one priority that said cash assistance programs in Nairobi and I’m sure in other cities as you can imagine are stretched to capacity the wild cash is a top priority right now there isn’t

Enough funding to meet this need and we’re trying to bridge this gap by promoting providing remote business support advising our clients and how they might pivot their business models the continued operation but in a safe matter then adheres the local guidelines an example of this might be a coffee

Production company where they really rely on brick and mortar model but they’re now pivoting to a coffee delivery business model to maintain that likelihood all the while we can’t lose ground on the progress we’ve made and we’re preparing for a much more robust and systematic livelihood support and direct partnership with East African

Cities when they turn to the recovery phase because we know exactly how badly they’ll be needed before we move on from Nairobi I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention some of the amazing work that grassroots organizations like Shaq and slum dwellers International is doing in the city literally just an hour ago I

Learned about their quote coronavirus situation tracker for Kenyan informal settlements which has so much useful information such as that only 11 percent of Nairobi settlements informal settlements are reporting are reporting the availability of testing on average so I encourage you to look that up so we can’t travel in real life but I’d

Like to virtually fly you to West Africa and land us safely in the city of may degree which is the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State due to violence in Northeast Nigeria the city has seen an estimated doubling of its population over the past decade or so while still having to

Contest with militant insurgencies and a general lack of resources the humanitarian response to internally displaced living with may degree up until recently has been just that focused on emergency response but with the situation lasting as long as it has the IRC and our partners in acted and impact proposed a different kind of

Humanitarian event intervention one that focuses on building local resilience of the most vulnerable communities including displaced rather than continuing on with emergency response mindset the echo funded three-year project titled from response to resilience which is a name I’m rather proud of so please don’t steal it focused on three high-risk neighborhoods

And takes a community led area based approach to identifying risks developing neighborhood resilience plans and directly funding projects in those plans are related to disaster risk reduction based on community prioritization we do this while also working with state and city actors to build their capacity around disaster risk reduction in

Response but for the purposes of this presentation I’m going to focus on our community facing efforts so the more data you continuing with the trend of cities on the front line is so much data on these slides that I had to I had to meet that challenge we were

Just a year or under a year into from response to resilience in may degree when the city saw its first case of Cova 19 just I think over a month ago or a little under a month ago and it turns out it’s a great time to be working on

An urban resilience project before a crisis hits a city because most of the data that you see on the slide was collected prior to kovat reaching may degree and acted on our team was able to leverage the communication channels with traditional leaders the complement that data with kovat specific with cope with

Kovat specific data host covin so the map on the Left shows the three neighborhoods where we’re working overlaying with relevance values that are based on two things first proximity to IDP locations and second geospatial information related to the 2018 cholera cholera outbreak in may degree so based

On these relevant scores we know two things that our three target areas are both home to a lot of displaced residents and that these neighborhoods are already at a high risk of infectious diseases the city data is complemented by a 1138 household survey and our three target neighborhoods Creek and a survey

Of 170 traditional leaders for boo Lamas post coded this data is shown on the right-hand side of the slide where you can see that not only do residents of these neighborhoods live with nine other people per household so think about social distancing there but the mass vast majority do not have sufficient

Access to water which of course is the main ingredient inmate agrees number one response to coded hand-washing at the same time similar to Nairobi the majority of residents in these neighborhoods rely on informal daily wages and use those wages primarily to purchase food so we see some trends

Emerging between Nairobi and may degree needless to say the data paints a bleak picture but the good news again is that we already had a process in place to not only better better understand these risks but to also empower communities to do something about them what is that something first

The response to resilience or leveraging existing community channels to share life-saving information related to health and hygiene but more importantly than the information is that the community trusts this information because we have spent time pre-crisis acting to build that trust again we know that while all residents of these

Neighborhoods are underserved IDPs and other vulnerable residents especially people who live people living with disabilities are not receiving the support they deserve there’s an assumption inmate agree which has both urban IDPs and camp based IDPs and I would say that this assumption is very common in most displacement context that

The displaced living in cities chose to live in cities and so therefore are well off while those residing in camps are in more need of resistant assistance so while there’s not a lot of resources in general the resources that do exist are directed to those camps but I hope that

The data on the previous slide shows that that’s simply not true and there are very significant needs within urban areas and for urban displaced as well third we’re starting efforts to document and learn from our failures in the may to vary response to Cova 19 especially for the most vulnerable we already knew

About the limited access to water and health facilities these communities face but now we know exactly how important they are and can prioritize resources as such and lastly we’re starting the recovery in the response and actually in the case of this project I would say that we started the recovery before the

Response and that is precisely because we made the conscious decision as a humanitarian organization to take a resilience approach to an urban displacement crisis we did this by designing a project based on what the IRC terms inclusive City Planning inclusive City Planning is an intervention that ensures that city

Plans policies and projects are designed with the input of display and marginalized populations and inclusive of their needs and preferences simply stated inclusive city planning is a process that values displaced community voices as much as it does analytical data technical expertise local capacities and that this data is

Is used in both the city lead and community own process and the results are inclusive resilient city plans and projects like we will have thankfully for the three neighborhoods of native burry and it’s precisely because we should be valuing those voices our fantastic community outreach officers in

May to burry some of whom I hope are listening on this call helped me with this presentation and reached out to some of our I’ll call them local resilience planners but they’re really community residents and asked them what they would like this international audience of 300 plus people to know

About their lives and this is one of their responses and I think it’s so important that I’m just going to give 10 second pause so that people can read it you thank you for listening to one of our clients so for those of you who hear the

May degree story and say that it’s too late to think about preparedness or too early to think about the response please keep in mind that the cities where the majority of refugees and displaced reside are still early on in their fight against coda 19 and going back to how I

Started this presentation there is a real risk of not thinking about how we as an international community including city representatives can best serve displaced and marginalized communities and how we can work with these communities so that they can better serve themselves from the IRCs perspective we must take five specific

Steps to protect urban displaced one of the most vulnerable groups in the fight against covert 19:9 in the future first we need to ensure that local city response and recovery plans work for urban displaced recognizing that a plan for works with networks for them will work for the whole of society as Nora

And Victoria have already mentioned too we need to support local efforts to strengthen social cohesion as an effective public health intervention there are examples from city responses around the world that show that first responders are not police or health care workers but neighbors and this has a tremendous effect for the type of

Neighborhoods where we’re working um third we need to respond to emergency food security needs now while planning to improve livelihoods and work opportunities in the future we need to ensure equal access to information and essential services and I really liked how Nora put this point because it’s not always about creating new services

Sometimes it’s about in looking at your current services and making sure that there are no barriers that specific vulnerable populations face in accessing them language barriers barriers related to migration status or documentation requirements that is a very low cost intervention that can help a lot of refugees and migrants if you’re just

Making sure that they have access to the existing response efforts that are there and lastly and perhaps most importantly we need to engage urban displaced communities as Cova 19 response partners engaging them builds trust need to ensure their buy-in and ensures that response efforts are adapted to the

Local context and owned by the communities they aim to serve there are countless examples of displaced communities and refugee led organizations responding to their communities such as I want to give a shout out to yard in Kampala who is taking the lead and distributing food to their vulnerable refugee communities in

Their city and it’s these efforts that we need to lift up because while cities are on the front line at-risk communities are first responders so I attended last week’s cities on the frontline webinar on recovery and I was very happy to see that 79% of the community in practice saw quote enhanced

Social equity as the most critical factor of Cova 19 recovery kudos to all of you so if you’re a city representative and you’re in the middle of developing your Cova 19 recovery plan I challenge you to think not only about how that plan includes displaced and marginalized residents but also what

Role can they play in leading their own response and deciding their own futures with that I thank you and happy to take your questions Thank You Victoria Thank You Sameer Thank You Nora we have about 15 minutes for Q&A and before that I want to reassure everybody did we always have

The question will do the presentation be available all the presentation are recorded and the recording is available online allowing the same link it was used to register few question and actually a couple of question that would be bundled together with a presentation Nora and Samir a couple of weeks ago in

Singapore which has observe an explosion in the number of cases among migrant workers but surprisingly the mortality rate has been extremely low and this is mostly because migrant workers in Singapore are mostly young and fairly strong become or the construction industry which shows that demographic

Has a huge impact on the impact of the disease have you observed among Europe I’m interesting in Los Angeles but also among your nine countries Samir differences or striking differences among different group different communities and have you been adapting your program accordingly maybe we’ll start with Nora in Los Angeles and then

Go to Samir so I mentioned that a lot of the essential workers here in the city do happen to be people of color and by titian many of them happen to be immigrants we haven’t I’m not sure that we have data specifically like essential workers and whether the death rates are

Different we do know that a lot of them and this is why the mayor took some action in terms of providing or extending filling in the gaps of the ability of those workers to take sick leave for example because a lot of it is sort of they’re being put in a difficult

Choice of even if they are vulnerable continuing to work because they need to financially right not necessarily that they have the freedom to do so to make that choice without those consequences and so we’re trying to think about how do we for those who will continue on the

Front lines at the grocery stores health care workers all of those how do we protect them and so some of the orders that he’s been mandating at in the last couple of weeks a few weeks is for any of those essential businesses right the the increased hygiene Public Health sort

Of safety measures to make sure that they’re protected things as simple as our transportation system must continue to run those essential services must continue to happen because a lot of those low-income workers a lot of those immigrants depend on buses to be able to get to those essential jobs but things

Are simple how do you protect that bus driver you ask people to board from the back u.s. people – now starting just recently everyone who is outside their home must be wearing a face mask so it’s both sort of really practical simple common-sense approach but also on

The workers side how do we allow them the true freedom to choose whether they have to step out of their homes and go provide those services and take on those dogs three at a time and there may be some that you because of their vulnerabilities that just doesn’t make sense but they must

Have that choice in that financial support to be able to do that so we’re trying to act on on both fronts Maybe from my side I’ll say that what again it’s it’s still very early thankfully in the countries where the IRC works where we that we haven’t seen the amount of cases that other countries have seen so that’s a good thing but I think it’s interesting to see the

Reaction over time to some of these cities where there’s an initial shock reaction a complete shutdown we see what works and what doesn’t work from that shutdown and then some creativity it starts to bubble to the top about the nuance that’s really required especially in some of these low-income informal

Settlements so in may degree they did resort to a lockdown but they had two days per week and I think they still have two days per week where the lockdown is lifted so you can imagine what happens in those two days right there’s actually be worse social

Distancing you will ever see in any city because everybody’s trying to get their shopping in or make whatever bucks they can within those two days so now what we’re doing is trying to collect as much information from the communities were working with and thankfully we also have connections to bar know state and

Metropolitan Council and trying to facilitate some communication there but what’s working what’s not working and see how we can be more creative and more nuanced and rely more on the voices of the people who are trying to serve as we move forward you thank you for those answers I’m gonna

Pose a little bit more of a technical question as we know this is a group of practitioners and your comments Nora and summer have peaked some of their interests as well as from you Victoria when you talked about tools and methodologies I think what what the participants would like to hear more

About is what are the practical tools and approaches you can use in particular those that might help you with communication and getting the right information out as well as those that we’re mapping or giving that situational analysis there was a specific call-out summer to to the situation tracker for

The informal settlement so what in your view are some of the best tools for getting your plans right getting your communications right and really assessing the situation and likewise what are some of the policy tools that could be used as you’re setting your best foot forward for recovery and protecting these sensitive groups

So I’ll I’ll start and I’ll touch on both of those briefly on the outreach we have tried to and this has been work that we started before the pandemic focusing on making sure that all the resources available information going back to a point I had made earlier is

The communities that are targeted by those programs actually know that they exist and that’s become a bit of a bigger challenge during the emergency crisis situation because everything is moving so quickly and the needs are arising so quickly and so just ensuring that that we were one eliminating in

Language barriers the mayor has been great every night for a number of weeks he was doing a daily briefing and he was doing part of it in Spanish again because the majority of our migrants here happen to be Latinos spanish-speaking but even simple things like at the beginning of the panic we

Were we had he has the coronavirus web page that I shared at the end of my presentation where all the information about all city programs orders everything resources is captured there we were translating that into Spanish every night and that just became overwhelming and so we decided to just

Put in Google Translate wait widget on it and so that we could at least provide information as quickly as he was becoming available and we’ve actually been in communication with Google to refine the translating capabilities that they have we use a lot of terms of art a

Lot of specific terms and we actually had a conversation about how those were not being translated accurately and they’ve been fixed so just things as easy as that and then obviously partnering with ethnic media Samara was talking about trusted messengers we’ve done a lot of work since 2013 when the

Offutt office was reopened to ensure that we are keeping in sort of relationships communities and are seen as trusted messengers but there are also others in the community that are trusted messengers just because they work in the communities and have been there and so relying on them to also disseminate

Accurate and timely information coming from the city about all the city programs and initiatives that were thinking about oh so while mayor Garcetti is doing a fantastic job giving daily briefings and and the translation that’s happening I think they create like the creativity nor about just like tapping on a Google

Translate widget and getting it done I think the the more sometimes the least fancy solution is the most effective in some of the northern refugee settlements in Uganda our staff have put a speaker on the back of a boda boda which is a motorcycle and started driving around with that speaker playing

Key messages in languages in the myriad languages that are spoken in these refugee settlements and it’s quite a thing to see actually I don’t know if I can share a picture but um you know you have a little motorbike with this whole speaker attached to it on the back and

You’re driving around I think the most important tool is not a use of technology or you know our or some other like Silver Bullet the most effective tool I would say is context analysis and being able to ask people what is your preferred way of getting information in

Mate agree we know about the blonde was the traditional leaders you know about the use of radio and it’s these sort of you know by just having that simple conversation and understanding context in a best you can you there are very simple solutions to very complex problems and I think that’s that’s a

Good thing not a bad thing Lauren you mentioned so the the makeup the name of it specifically the the situation tracker of low-income informal settlements I want to be clear that is not an IRC document it’s a document of I didn’t work over the IRC I would be

Knocking on these people’s doors the set shack in slum-dwellers International which is a grassroots organization and it’s their hard work of collecting data in several informal settlements in Nairobi and other counties from May 10th so it’s it’s relatively recent but if you google situation tracker and for

Most elements you may be able to find it but I can also find a link in Iran Samir we have just a few more minutes but I don’t know if you have one of the question is have you observed reverse migration and does that bring particular issues that city city manager

Should be aware of and give any advice but really quickly we only have a few minutes maybe starting with you now right we have not as a result of Kobe 19 there had been a trend but that was caused probably by just the the federal Immigration and Refugee related policies

Of the last few years we have seen a decrease one in migration into an increase in people going back to their country particularly Mexico that used to be the biggest sending country to the United States or take a little into California but we haven’t seen that as a result to Cup in

Yeah I mean there’s been a lot of global data on reverse migration I think here is it’s really important to understand the difference between displacement and migration migrants have the choice to go back home refugees and displaced do not so we know we’re not seeing that you

Again the unfortunate duty falls to me to start to bring us to a close because this has been an incredible conversation and I think one that we could continue and facilitate more dialogue on to that end we will make as Francis said the presentation available including additional pictures materials that nor a

Tourism or Victoria you want to provide for us that that help us to share these good practices and these context specific practices that may resonate with members of the community so we’re very happy to do that also in the spirit of continuing the conversation and keeping this safe space

To share we will be back here again next week and next week’s speaker series will focus on the pandemic resilience city and how we can start to think about managing risk as we continue through this crisis and starting to open up what can be expected in a three month horizon

And what might be realistic measures to take over the next several years to really manage this risk more comprehensively as we recover and we’ll have a guest speaker from India from one of our cities in Pune and also someone from risk management solutions joining us so I hope that you’ll come back and

Spend the time with us I want to give a huge thanks to our speakers this evening – Noor Preciado from the city of Los Angeles – some saliba IRC and in particular – my former colleague friend and a wonderful executive director of the mayor’s hydration Council Victoria

Zanu so thank you all so much for being here tonight and thanks to everyone who’s called in take very good care and hopefully we’ll hear and see you next week

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