HIGHLIGHTS
- 2nd Edition of Dynamic Atlas released
Second edition of Dynamic Atlas released
The Humanitarian Coordinator's Support Office on 18 December released the second edition CD of the Dynamic Atlas for Humanitarian and Recovery Activities in Liberia. This Atlas provides an update of the first edition produced in January 2007 and includes the second version of the Who Does What Where (WDWW) database, which was circulated it to the humanitarian community earlier in the month.
The Dynamic Atlas provides a snapshot of "who is doing what and where" in humanitarian and recovery activities. Its database logs some 24,000 humanitarian and recovery activities and allows users to pull together this information with social infrastructure and social indicators through some 200 maps. This will then enable practitioners to better identify humanitarian needs and gaps. Additionally, the Dynamic Atlas is designed to serve as a planning tool for national and international humanitarian and recovery actors at the county level, and will assist humanitarian actors and planners to better target vulnerable populations, as well as a means to improve coordination and coherence of such activities.
County Health Team and partners respond to acute watery diarrhoea outbreak
Since 3 December 2007, some 65 people have been affected by acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) with one mortality and four patients currently hospitalized at the J.J. Dossen Hospital in Harper, Maryland County. An isolation ward was opened in J.J. Dossen hospital on 21 December 2007.
On 17 December, the Maryland County Health Team (CHT), Merlin, ICRC and Solidarités attended an AWD Response Meeting. At this meeting, the CHT committed to providing a list of AWD cases and a map of the spread of disease to ensure that activities to combat the spread of the disease are targeted towards the affected communities. The CHT/J.J. Dossen Hospital will continue treating patients with support from Merlin, and ICRC and Solidarités committed to providing engineers/technicians and hygiene promoters. To date, the CHT with support from the ICRC, Merlin and Solidarités have delivered training on, and undertaken activities in, hygiene promotion and chlorination, including hygiene radio programmes broadcast on local radio. All hygiene promoters have also undertaken to submit daily reports to assist co-ordination efforts.