CLEAR: COVID-19 Leadership Response in Vulnerable Settings
The CLEAR program is a featured initiative launched by The TruePoint Center to collaborate with local leaders to strengthen COVID-19 responses in low-income and low-resource settings. It is in those settings, among the most vulnerable populations, where COVID-19’s impact is greatest.
Blunting that impact and building back better requires local mobilization through purpose-driven leaders who are deeply connected with their communities. CLEAR helps those leaders and their communities respond to the pandemic in a way that saves lives and sustains livelihoods.
“The CLEAR Initiative enables local leaders to accelerate and expand their impact, saving lives and sustaining individual and community health and development.”
CLEAR is pleased to acknowledge the support of The International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health, Grand Challenges Canada (funded in turn by the Government of Canada), Porticus, Humanitarian Education Accelerator, along with our Board of Advisors.
CASE LIBRARY
CLEAR has developed a suite of cases of remarkable on-the-ground responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The full case library is available below.
SYNTHESIS: RESILIENCE AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES
Drawing on what leaders told us during the case study interviews, we developed a synthesis of strategies for organizational resilience in the face of COVID and other emergencies. The document is available below.
RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION: SELF-DIAGNOSTIC TOOL
We developed a self-diagnostic tool for organizations to think through their own agenda as it pertains to resilience adaptation.
CLEAR Cases
CLEAR Advisors
Lynn Black, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School Board Chair Emeritus, Last Mile Health
Gary Cohen
Executive Vice President, Global Health, President, BD Foundation Becton, Dickinson, and Company Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Dr. Tarun Dua
Medical Officer, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Jessica Hjarrand
Porticus Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aarti Kumar
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Community Empowerment Lab, Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Geetha Meetina, IAS
Commissioner Women and Child Development, Chhattisgarh, India
Karlee Silver
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ravi Venkatesan
Founder, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Dr. David L. Wood
Professor with tenure and past Chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the Quillen College of Medicine at ETSU