Beyond the Outbreak - Strategies for Post-Ebola Recovery Toolkit

"This toolkit is a resource for organizations and individuals involved in recovery efforts following an infectious disease outbreak, such as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2016. "

This online toolkit from the USAID-funded Ebola Transmission Prevention & Survivor Services (ETP&SS) programme, implemented by the Advancing Partners & Communities project and managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), includes the following resources:

• Tools and training materials
• Stories and interventions
• National guidelines and policies
• Priorities and lessons learned
• Journal articles

For governments, donors, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), implementing partners, and survivor groups, it is intended to provides guidance and templates for responding to issues related to health systems recovery and survivor care after a major outbreak. Results are gleaned from ETP&SS work in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Survivors might need mental health and health care that require specialty care, such as cataracts and joint pain and may suffer impacted by stigma and economic hardship such that by establishing survivor associations, there may be effective ways of supporting and empowering the survivor population.

Technical briefs, tools, policy documents, videos, success stories, and journal articles are available for the following topics on helping survivors recover:

• Organizational Strengthening of National Survivor Networks
• Access to Health Care
• Monitoring the Health Status of Survivors

Guidelines, tools, reflections, videos, and job aids are available for the following topics on rebuilding health systems:

• Ministry of Health Perspectives
• Upgrading Specialty Services

Technical briefs and journal articles are available for global health security.