An emergency response of such scale and complexity as the one required due to the COVID-19 pandemic calls for recommendations that will help us all to advance together.
Through this submission, ECCV aims to highlight factors associated with the higher vulnerability facing some of our ethnic and multicultural communities, and to call attention to the importance of engaging organisations and individuals with expertise and long-term relationships built with these communities, as active participants in the design and implementation of the COVID-19 responses and recovery.
To be effective, this engagement must go beyond a consultation model and instead involve equitable and respectful collaboration to ensure that all Victorians, regardless of their race, ethnicity or faith, can feel safe and recognised by the Victorian Government.
To inform this submission, ECCV drew upon advice received through a survey of our members, direct conversations with community members, regular meetings of the Victorian Multicultural CEO Network, and executives from our regional partners.
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