The necessity for intra-action reviews during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mayigane, Landry Ndriko; Vázquez, Cindy Chiu de; Vente, Candice; Charles, Denis; Copper, Frederik; Bell, Allan; Njenge, Hilary Kagume; Schmidt, Tanja; Samhouri, Dalia; Htike, Maung Maung Than; Kato, Masaya; Stephen, Mary; Kerkhove, Maria D. Van; Chungong, Stella

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30414-9

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“…WHO strongly urges all countries to conduct IARs. 40 We achieved the IAR objectives to identify best practices, gaps, and challenges and to formulate recommendations to improve the multisector COVID-19 response, through interactive sharing and systematic reviews. Our experience is that the IAR served as an effective tool to facilitate multisectoral stakeholder collaboration to systematically review the dynamics of the COVID-19 response and engaged stakeholders to better understand the COVID-19 response and constraints.…”

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“…WHO recommends that countries periodically review their COVID-19 response using the IAR methodology. 17,40 In Indonesia, the IAR was useful for identifying best practices and gaps and formulating recommendations to improve the ongoing COVID-19 response. It also provided input for the State Party Annual Reporting for monitoring country IHR (2005) core capacities and for a review of the National Action Plan for Health Security Indonesia, 2020-2024.…”

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The First Intra-Action Review of Indonesia's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, August 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on health, society, and the economy globally and in Indonesia.The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the use of intra-action reviews (IARs) to identify best practices, gaps, and lessons learned to make real-time improvements to the COVID-19 response. The Emergency Committee of the International Health Regulations (2005) has recommended that countries share COVID-19 best practices and lessons learned with peer countries through IARs. Using WHO-established methodology, we conducted the first IAR of Indonesia's COVID-19 response from January through August 2020. The review covered 10 thematic areas (pillars): (1) command and coordination; (2) operational support and logistics; (3) surveillance, rapid response teams, risk assessment, and field investigation; (4) laboratories;(5) case management; (6) infection prevention and control; (7) risk communication and community empowerment; (8) points of entry, international travel, and transportation; (9) large-scale social restrictions; and (10) maintaining essential health services and systems. We held focus group discussions with a variety of stakeholders from a range of government departments, provincial health offices, and nongovernmental organizations. We used the results of the focus group discussions and other key findings from the IAR to formulate recommendations. The IAR identified key areas for improvement at national and subnational levels across all 10 pillars. Priority recommendations included improving multisectoral coordination and monitoring of COVID-19 response plan indicators; strengthening implementation of public health response measures, including case detection, isolation, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, and quarantine; and improving data collection, analysis, and reporting to inform public health risk assessment and response. The IAR is a useful tool for reviewing progress and identifying areas to improve the COVID-19 response in real time and provides a means to share information on areas of need with COVID-19 response partners and contributes to International Health Regulations (2005) core capacity development.

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The First Intra-Action Review of Indonesia's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, August 2020

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“…The timing of herd immunity is uncertain and the pandemic may be extended by variant strains. Australia and other countries should review the recommendations from past reviews and urgently begin WHO recommended pandemic intra‐action reviews 5,25 . Looking to the future, it is clear that rapid public health responses can prevent weeks or months of lockdown, with savings variably estimated at between $450 million and $4 billion per week 26 .…”

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that outbreak AARs and joint external evaluations be collated systematically to allow analysis and assessment of preparedness for future events, and is urging countries to conduct intra‐action reviews during the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic 4,5 …”

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Using after‐action reviews of outbreaks to enhance public health responses: lessons for COVID‐19

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Dürrheim

2021

Medical Journal of Australia

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“…Therefore, WHO has collaborated with the group responsible for the post-introduction evaluation of new vaccines within the COVAX working group to develop the vaccination component for the country COVID-19 intra-action review. 8 , 9 Frequent review of this component can allow the close monitoring of vaccine roll-out and prompt actions to address obstacles encountered. The findings from these intra-action reviews can then feed into the post-introduction evaluation.…”

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