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Table 1 Summary of post-Ebola survivors’ recovery and rebuilding phased programmes and activities

From: Rebuilding transformation strategies in post-Ebola epidemics in Africa

Overall Strategic plan

Recovery and rebuilding programmes and activities

First-order impact actions and strategies

second-order long term mitigation and response impact

Surveys assessment of recovery mechanisms and rebuilding activation.

- Public health and Community engagement and social mobilization

- Harnessing needs and demand-based inclusive and equitable recovery activities capacity

- Understanding the counter factors and challenges (existing realities, drivers and barriers)

- Quantitative and qualitative data collection tools evaluation and standardization

- Strengthening national institutions and infrastructures support to tackling risk and Ebola persistence through national EVD immunization program

- Training and capacity development including local staff and target groups, government and stakeholders

- Positive community perception, knowledge, attitude and practice changes

- Active psychosocial and welfare support services of survivors, orphans and child protection

- Enabling economic and time-bound business plans and operations

- Improving local/national reforms, partnership and financial operational and management accountability

- Continuous development of financial and labour market capabilities for community educational trust confidence and empowerment

- Expanding emergency and community support systems and ownerships to other areas

- Revamping entrepreneurship education and agricultural sector

Implementation and performance of interventions and changes metrics assessment

- More inclusiveness recovery and rebuilding response investment

- Operational trading and financial recovery activities and structural measures

- Implementation of protocols, SOPs, data and database security, quality control management systems

- Timeliness and mutually beneficial community transformation options and productivity

- Data and information capturing, processing and analysis as well as reporting to stakeholders

- Operational infrastructure services resources such as electricity, water, agriculture, security, telecommunications, environmental needs

-Enhanced recovery plans and contingency measures approaches implementation for social cohesion and peace

- Tax relief and secured microfinance activities for private sector firms and import–export regulations

- Revamping growth and job creation, rebuilding local economy subsidies

- Integrated evidence and coordinated outputs

- Consolidation of most potent investment and innovations

Outcomes/impact and specific innovations

- Achieving macroeconomic and healthy workforce development post-Ebola recovery agenda

- Assessment of organisational impacts, planning, resilience and recovery mitigation information

- Fostering post-Ebola disaster needs public-private partnerships (PPP) innovative responses

- Timeframe recovery process, regulation and policy changes

- Addressing, evaluation, learning and reporting. tracking adaptations and strategic implementation

- Benefits and fitness for reoccupation of target populations (accommodation, training, good and services supply chain, food and entertainment)

- Increase collaborative resources by forming partnerships and networks

- Expanding early warning, forecasting and improved WASH in affected communities

- Investment in regaining jobs, market growth, micro and macro-economic trade-off, as well health insurance

- Community projects partnership and ownership resilience and investment

- Community projects/programs ownerships including R&D

- Long-term health monitoring and social protection of survivors, orphans and affected communities

Monitoring and evaluation activities

- Examining the extent and nature approaches of second order impact implementation and sustainability

- Rebuilding trust, engagement and resilience markets growth

- Efficiency-driven participation endeavours

- Recommendations in decisions making policy, innovations and collective responsibilities