Interim Guidance on Scaling-up COVID-19 Outbreak Readiness and Response Operations in Camps and Camp-like Settings

By IASC, IFRC, IOM, UNHCR, WHO

This Interim Guidance document addresses specific needs and other considerations required in humanitarian situations such as camps and camp-like settings as well as the surrounding host communities in relation to scaling-up readiness and response operations for the COVID-19 outbreak. The main topics addressed in the guidance include limiting human-to-human transmission, ensuring protection, optimizing care, and communicating information and minimizing the social and economic impacts on the target population through a multi-sectorial partnership (Pages 4-8)