Community-Based Interventions for Confront COVID-19 in Marginalized Areas (Case Study: Koshtargah Neighborhood)

Social crisis management approaches correct top-down management flaws in crisis development and management plans that fail, and the lack of use of potential local resources and capacities that may increase people's vulnerability, and with a kind of integrated approach. Cooperation between the public sectors harmonizes responsibility in various fields. On the other hand, one of the new policies in the framework of integrated crisis management in recent years, relying on the dimensions of social networks appropriate to crisis management is the use of the capacity of local volunteers. The present research method is descriptive and applied. The dominant type of intervention in this study is the community-based intervention. The area of action of this research is the Koshtargah neighborhood. The statistical population of this study is all the residents of the Koshtargah neighborhood in Urmia, which according to the statistics of 1397, the office of local facilitation and development of the Koshtargah neighborhood is 11731 people in total. The result of these measures was that the number of patients in the Koshtargah remained constant and that they were leaving the red zone and gradually entering the white zone. In fact, after a month of hard work, day-to-day operations, and campaigns with Corona, the neighborhood was back to normal. One of the most important reasons for the success of the local group was coordination, empathy, and compassion for the neighborhood, and due to the division of tasks among the group, each person performed his responsibilities and avoided rework

Community, COVID-19, Marginalized Areas, Community-Based Interventions.