Nigerian Language Oral History Documentation Project/COVID-19 risk analysis
COVID-19 risk analysis[edit]
During the project design and implementation, the project team was concerned on the challenges that the impact of COVID-19 may pose to the project especially the fieldwork. Although, at the time, the risk of COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria was generally low and there was no restrictions, partial or total lockdown in any parts of Nigeria (aside from the emergency lockdown in March 2020).
We designed a COVID-19 risk analysis to ensure an uninterrupted project implementation while ensuring duty of care principles are applied, respecting and sustaining international effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 and sustain WMF’s response to the pandemic.
The project manager ensured to minimize the risk to, and burden on people participating in the project and seek and maximize the benefit and avoid or significantly reduce any harm that may result due to COVID-19 during the project implementation.
For the purpose of supporting decision-making on this project implementation, we categorized risks on a scale of:
- High
- Medium
- Low
We assessed the above scale based on the severity of the impact on the project, relative to the likelihood of the risk manifestation or occurrence.
- Risk analysis
| S/N | Risk | Mitigation/Remarks | Impact assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Risk of exposure and spreading of COVID-19 by members of the project team | We will follow the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control's protocol and Guidelines on COVID-19 and WMF’s Risk Assessment protocol | Low |
| 2. | Risk of exposure and spreading of COVID-19 by participants | We will follow the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control's protocol and Guidelines on COVID-19 and WMF’s Risk Assessment protocol | Low |
| 3. | Risk of exposure and spreading of COVID-19 by any partner organization | We will follow the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control's protocol and Guidelines on COVID-19 and WMF’s Risk Assessment protocol | Low |
| 4. | Travel restrictions | No travel restriction in any parts of Nigeria. If there are travels restrictions in the future before shooting is completed, we will postpone the rest of the shooting until the restrictions are lifted and the edit-a-thons would be conducted online. Note: We will only consider this option if the restriction timeframe is short | Low |
| 5. | Lockdown | No lockdown in any parts of Nigeria due to COVID-19. However, we plan to take the following measure. 1. Take advantage of this period of “no-lockdown” to do the shooting to compensate for any lockdown that may result from Covid-19. 2. If there is lockdown before shooting is completed, we could ask our contact in the targeted state to do the recording, while we do the post-production which includes editing of the visual and audio material, color correction in video, sound effect etc. |
Overall, COVID-19 pandemic did not pose any risk to this project. The project was not truncated by any travel restrictions, partial or total lockdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The risk and likelihood of exposure and spreading of COVID-19 was zero.