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Jagan Chapagain

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2021-02-17
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2021-02-17
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  1. “I believe that these ripples will build trust and eventually turn into the wave that washes away this pandemic. These volunteers prove that humanity is not only alive but is in fact thriving, giving us all hope for peace and security as we deal with the toughest crisis of our lifetime.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  2. “I would like to stress the importance of ensuring the safety and protection of volunteers, first responders and health-care workers during this pandemic. In 2020, my colleagues at the International Committee of the Red Cross documented nearly 850 incidents of violence against health-care workers involved in the COVID-19 response — a figure that is both shocking and almost certainly below the actual number. International humanitarian law must be respected. Violence against health- care workers must not be tolerated. We have a collective responsibility to care for those who care for us. Let me conclude by thanking the millions of volunteers who are serving at the front lines of this pandemic. By selflessly responding to the needs of others, each of them creates “tiny ripples of hope”.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  3. “The vaccination campaign to help vaccinate 500 million people we launched last month in support of the global efforts was born out of this reach and the trust of our membership at the most local level. How can States Members of the United Nations support these efforts aimed at building trust and integrating last-mile communities into COVID-19 immunization efforts? They can include such community organizations as the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in all phases of immunization planning and delivery. By involving these actors, they will gain insight into community misconceptions and misgivings, and will have greater clarity of vision with respect to those groups and communities that might previously have been hidden from their view.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  4. “Underserved, alienated or isolated communities — including those living in areas not under the control of States, as well as detainees, internally displaced persons and refugees — must be integrated in national vaccination efforts. Strong involvement of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and other local impartial organizations in vaccination activities can help ensure that these last- mile communities are not left behind. The efforts of the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies aimed at maintaining routine immunizations in such contexts as Afghanistan, the Central African Republic and Pakistan have saved countless lives, and this unparalleled access to last-mile communities can just as easily channel COVID-19 vaccinations, while maintaining critical routine vaccinations.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  5. “They see the unfairness, for example, in the fact that less than 1 per cent of vaccine doses globally have been administered in the 32 countries facing severe or very severe humanitarian crises. The fair and equitable distribution of vaccines is essential to building trust, maintaining international peace and preventing violence. This is about more than fairness — it is about stopping the virus. However, equity is not something that happens on its own. History tells us that. Just as we need to ensure that all countries can access vaccines, we also need to make sure that those vaccines reach the arms of all the people who need them.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  6. “It requires seeking out community feedback and constantly adapting our response to address the concerns and fears that periodically flow through communities. It also requires investment — certainly more than has been the case during this pandemic. Mistrust has consistently undermined COVID-19 response efforts. Now, as we turn to the immunization phase of the global response, earning community trust remains crucial, especially against the backdrop of historically high levels of vaccine hesitancy. As we learned during Ebola, people trust us based on our actions. They look at what we do and they judge us for what we do not do. They see clearly the current high levels of vaccine inequity and inequality.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  7. “Nevertheless, it can be done, but it requires listening and sincerity in acting on what communities tell us. Let me give you an example. Our initial attempts to safely bury Ebola victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were met with hostility. So we reached out to communities and we listened. We trained 800 community volunteers to gather community feedback and we analysed the results to understand why people were refusing our support. We used what we learned to adapt both how we handled the burials and how we engaged with communities. The result of this diligent, patient work was that refusals dropped from 80 per cent to just 8 per cent by the end of the outbreak. Trust has to be earned.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  8. “Instead, they are likely to see these health measures as threats, which can lead to violence. We saw that play out many times during the Ebola outbreaks, and we have all seen it many, many times during the COVID-19 pandemic. Put simply, mistrust kills. When science is not only ignored but derided, when the decision to wear masks becomes controversial and when the web is filled with absurd rumours, trust in the tremendous efforts to stop the pandemic is severely undermined. When mistrust prevails, it stops people from getting the help they need and it prevents us from ending public health emergencies. It can even lead to people incorrectly blaming others — foreigners, migrants or other minority groups — for the spread of an illness. What can be done? A crisis is not the ideal time to rebuild trust.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  9. “I thank you for the opportunity to join this important discussion today. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has shown us many things. It has highlighted — painfully — the weaknesses inherent within our public health systems. It has underlined our interconnectedness and the importance of responding to a global pandemic in a coordinated way. And it has shown the deadly consequences of mistrust. It seems sadly appropriate that I am speaking to the Council about trust just days after a new Ebola outbreak was announced in Guinea. The parallels between Ebola and COVID-19 — both in terms of the destructive nature of mistrust and the transformative capacity of creating trust — are profound. When communities do not understand health interventions, they will not accept them.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source