Report on the Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) Self-Assessment of its Response to COVID-19 and Lessons Learned

Here are findings and lessons learned from the self-assessment of its response to COVID19 in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region.

A female artist paints the ZIRP Murals in Chipinge, Zimabwe on 15 December 2020.
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The following provides findings and lessons learned from ESARO’s self-assessment of its response to COVID19 in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), covering the onset of the pandemic in ESAR in March 2020 through to the first half of November 2020.

The purpose of the ESARO self-assessment is to contribute to and document organizational learning and reinforce adaptive management and programming that has and will continue to take place during the COVID-19 emergency that has been unprecedented in scale and complexity. The two-fold objective includes:

  • to provide insight on the way ESARO has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and adapted its focus and approach during the emergency; and
  • to make use of findings and lessons learned to enhance ESARO’s work moving forward, including in support of ESARO’s Annual Review and the upcoming Regional Office Management Plan (ROMP).