Response Tag: Adaptive Action

The devolved Welsh Assembly has held its first virtual parliamentary session following a series of emergency provisions that have been put in place so that essential Assembly business relating to COVID-19 can carry on. Following last week’s smaller ‘Emergency Senedd’ meeting, the Assembly’s Business Committee has decided to switch to fully online ‘virtual’ plenary meetings using the video conferencing facility Zoom. Party groups have agreed to limit their attendance to the meeting,…

A set of measures is now in place to facilitate the remote participation of MEPs in committees, enabling them to view and listen to proceedings, ask for the floor and speak in meetings. Arrangements to allow MEPs to express themselves in the language of their choice ensures respect of the linguistic regime. On 20 March, the Parliament’s Bureau decided to supplement its earlier decision on voting methods, to allow, upon a decision by the President, a derogation in the context of the current…

The Astana Civil Service Hub, on the basis of its mission, aiming to support the governments of the participating countries, has created this platform where they can exchange of knowledge and best practices in applying innovations to respond to COVID-19. The platform includes countries’ reports with statistical indicators, recommendations and other facts that might be useful in the fight against the pandemic. The main objectives of the platform are: - аccumulation of analytical data and…

The Office for Digital Response to Covid-19 was set up to assess and implement digital-based measures, ensuring an coordinated response by involving public and private players. The Office released of a set of initiatives such as the reinforcement of the infrastructure to public digital services, special communications packages (both data and calls) to healthcare professionals (as well businesses and citizens), specific conditions to licences and access to solutions of homeschooling and…

All foreign citizens with pending requests for residence permits (requests made up until the declaration of the state of emergency – March 18, 2020) will have their legal status regularized on national territory until June 30 for, namely, obtaining access to the National Health Service or other health care rights, access to social support services, signing of rental contracts, signing of employment contracts, the opening of bank accounts and contracting essential public services.

In Portugal, the Directorate-General for Education (DGE), in collaboration with the National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education (ANQEP), has built a dedicated website with a set of resources to support schools in the use of distance learning methodologies that allow them to continue teaching and learning processes.

The Directorate-General of Administration and Public Employment has created a microsite to answer public servants’ questions about the support measures in sick leave or quarantine regime.

Portugal have created a 'Collaborative Work Plan in Public Administration', prepared within the area of governance of State Modernisation and Public Administration (nameley by the coordination of the Incentive System for Innovation in Public Management/SIIGeP), setting out guidelines for public services in the context of the state of emergency declared by the Decree of the President of the Republic No. 14-A/2020, of March 18. The plan encompasses six areas of work, namely:  Development of…

Primary School pupils are creating 'one-meter hats' in a Chinese school to help reinforce and promote social distancing. Students attend Yangzheng Elementary School created hats with 0.5 meter protrusions extending horizontally either side from the hat, which allow students to always understand when 1 meter away from other students. They created them at home with their parents before the school re-opened.

Mobilization of the Portuguese scientific community to increase the national test capacity, namely at nursing homes, by the development of a new test protocol that only uses national inputs, certified by the National Health Institute of Portugal.