Webinar: Explosive Ordnance Risk Education and COVID-19
Channel: EORE Advisory Group
Date: 2020-04-03

This webinar was organised by the Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Advisory Group (EORE AG) as a follow up to a thread of discussion in the international Mine Risk Education Working Group (iMREWG) platform. It responds to strong appetite for guidance on how, in view of the special circumstances around the COVID-19 crisis, we can:

1. Safely maintain EORE activities,
2. Use the power of our networks to reach communities with COVID-19 messages, and
3. Integrate both EORE and COVID-19 risk communication activities. 
 
The webinar was recorded on 1 April 2020. It was attended by 146 people from over 27 organisations and 47 countries. 
 
The discussions and questions raised during the webinar, including by the attendees, will inform the guidance toolkit being selected and developed by the EORE AG and may be taken up in future webinars. This toolkit is now available here: https://bit.ly/eore-covid19

Full transcript of the webinar is available here, with thanks to Hal Judge of the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Centre (ARMAC): https://bit.ly/EORE-COVID19WebinarTranscript 
 
Key Speakers:

00:00:07 Introduction by Hugues Laurenge, Child Protection Specialist, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Co-Chair of the EORE AG
 
00:12:52 Sebastian Kasack, Senior Community Liaison Advisor, Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and Co-Chair of the EORE AG – "EORE and COVID-19"
 
00:25:49 Ahmed Al-Zubaidi, Director, Iraqi Health and Social Care Organization (IHSCO) – "IHSCO EORE COVID-19 Response”
 
00:42:09 Paul Heslop, Chief of Programme, United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)
 
00:49:52 Abraham Achiek, Child Protection Specialist (Children and Armed Conflict), UNICEF Yemen
 
00:59:40 Sylvie Bouko, EORE Consultant, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) – "Overview of new technologies used for the remote delivery and monitoring of EORE"
 
01:12:07 Louis Maresca, Adviser, Conventional Weapons, Weapons Contamination Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
 
01:16:45 Summary & Conclusions

About the EORE AG
The EORE Advisory Group provides overall guidance to the sector and identifies ways to improve the integration, effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of EORE. Established in 2019, it draws on the expertise of over a dozen UN agencies, international organisations and international NGOs who serve as members or observers to the group. It is co-chaired by UNICEF and a rotating NGO – Mines Advisory Group (MAG) at the time of this event – and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) serves as secretariat. 

Key links
EORE AG: https://bit.ly/EOREAG
iMREWG: https://dgroups.org/groups/imrewg

Resource Centres on COVID-19
Global Protection Cluster: http://www.globalprotectioncluster.org/covid-19/
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC): https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/covid-19-outbreak-readiness-and-response
UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/covid-19-resources-practitioners
Child Protection Area of Responsibility: https://bit.ly/2QOgInt