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Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience
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The PNWER team worked with BERK Consulting to identify 6 sectors to deeply investigate in the Roadmap to better understand how public policy interacted with business operations across a variety of industries. Some of the identified industries were hit harder than others, while others were somewhat unaffected despite the pandemic’s challenges. The 6 sectors identified are:
Building from PNWER's previous work in 2010 on a Comprehensive Community Bio-Event Resilience Action Plan following the H1N1 pandemic, the current Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience will be launching Wednesday, March 29 at 11 am. Details below!
- Small Businesses and Retail Services
- Transportation & Warehousing
- Information / Publishing Industries [software development]
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Food Services / Drinking Establishments
Building from PNWER's previous work in 2010 on a Comprehensive Community Bio-Event Resilience Action Plan following the H1N1 pandemic, the current Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience will be launching Wednesday, March 29 at 11 am. Details below!
LAUNCH EVENT: A Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience
Virtual launch of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region's EDA funded Pandemic Resilience Guide, formerly known as the Pandemic Resilience Roadmap. This is the culmination of three years of work assembling regional best practices in pandemic response and recovery distilled into an accessible, easy-to-use Guide and related Workbook.
Date: Wednesday, March 29 | 11 am - 12 pm Pacific
Location: Zoom Webinar (register here!)
Audience: Business leaders, business continuity managers, industry organizations, cross-sector organizations, emergency managers, public health officials, government and public sector representatives, critical infrastructure operators and more! Attendees from the U.S. and Canada are both welcome!
Purpose: Explore the Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience and associated Workbook!
This workshop is free to attend, but registration is required.
Date: Wednesday, March 29 | 11 am - 12 pm Pacific
Location: Zoom Webinar (register here!)
Audience: Business leaders, business continuity managers, industry organizations, cross-sector organizations, emergency managers, public health officials, government and public sector representatives, critical infrastructure operators and more! Attendees from the U.S. and Canada are both welcome!
Purpose: Explore the Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience and associated Workbook!
This workshop is free to attend, but registration is required.
The Comprehensive Pandemic Resilience Roadmap incorporated lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic resilience best practices with a strong focus on economic challenges in the context of health safety, the implications for preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation, and identify needs and respective improvement actions. The Roadmap will help with the present pandemic and prepare the Central Puget Sound for future pandemics while at the same time assisting in lessening future blows to the economic welfare of the region, by enhancing capacity of local governments, economic development agencies, and business associations to be better prepared for safe operation, and economic survival.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a host of additional complex issues and shortfalls, including unexpected, deleterious, and far-reaching repercussions for local and regional economies that demonstrate limited understanding of and capabilities to address competing interests and needs in the context of inter-related economic and health resilience demands. These challenges cut across the resilience mission areas of protection, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery, and include an extensive range of new needs. Looking just at economic recovery, issues include healthcare and business supply chains; human resource considerations, such as protecting staff, sick leave, emergency leave, flexible child-care arrangements, dealing with ill workers, telecommuting, insurance coverage, etc.; better informed and coordinated decision-making across communities to address risks associated with business closure and restarts, quarantines, and social distancing versus health impacts; and how to keep businesses and other entities in operation and attract new investments and economic development opportunities. An overarching challenge is how to address the impact of social media on public behavior, fears, and attitudes that have a direct bearing on economic recovery. Beyond this, communities and regions need to not only recover, but they need to have the resources, tools, and other capabilities to build and sustain pandemic resilience to thrive and grow.
Point of Contact for the Project:
Betz Mayer, PNWER Program Manager
Betz.Mayer@pnwer.org
(206) 443-7723
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a host of additional complex issues and shortfalls, including unexpected, deleterious, and far-reaching repercussions for local and regional economies that demonstrate limited understanding of and capabilities to address competing interests and needs in the context of inter-related economic and health resilience demands. These challenges cut across the resilience mission areas of protection, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery, and include an extensive range of new needs. Looking just at economic recovery, issues include healthcare and business supply chains; human resource considerations, such as protecting staff, sick leave, emergency leave, flexible child-care arrangements, dealing with ill workers, telecommuting, insurance coverage, etc.; better informed and coordinated decision-making across communities to address risks associated with business closure and restarts, quarantines, and social distancing versus health impacts; and how to keep businesses and other entities in operation and attract new investments and economic development opportunities. An overarching challenge is how to address the impact of social media on public behavior, fears, and attitudes that have a direct bearing on economic recovery. Beyond this, communities and regions need to not only recover, but they need to have the resources, tools, and other capabilities to build and sustain pandemic resilience to thrive and grow.
Point of Contact for the Project:
Betz Mayer, PNWER Program Manager
Betz.Mayer@pnwer.org
(206) 443-7723
