of prison staffs in the management of prison from 400 facilities holding people deprived of liberty. The key finding of the project within 18 months of the pandemic outbreak is that different policies, practices, and activities were introduced by correctional and detention agencies to prevent and to mitigate the threat of COVID-19 in closed settings. ii. Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) in which the FGD supported some of the RNA findings. Some prisons had developed their own strategies to address COVID-19, and these were adapted and improved over the course of pandemic. iii. Training and courses on COVID-19 awareness for prison authorities in the Southeast Asia and South Asia. For example, UNODC based on a request from the Correctional Services, Maldives had conducted a training titles “COVID-19 Awareness Course for Personnel Working in Prison or Detention” targeting healthcare professionals in the prison facility. The training course was aimed at providing participants with up-to-date techniques and practical tools to understand and to overcome the spread of virus in places of detention with a major focus on COVID-19. iv. E-learning Course on Nelson Mandela Rules which is tailored to the needs of prison and correction officers.47 It will assist the user to understand and to apply the knowledge in the settings. It is available in various languages including Malay, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese. The Malay version of the course was developed with the support of the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC), Malaysia. Through its collaboration with ICRC, UNODC had trained 20 Malaysian prison officers as trainers in the course in October 2021 and it was conducted twice.48 v. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items were delivered upon request. UNODC has provided 1.2 million facial masks to the Department of Corrections, Thailand in June 2021 and it was delivered to Thailand since its prioritisation during the consultation on pandemic preparedness. UNODC has also provided facial masks, hand sanitisers, and vitamin C for the Department of Prison, Malaysia. This is among the support provided by UNODC to prisons and cities in the region. Mr. Tanaka reiterated that UNODC will continue to support prison authorities in the region and hoped that prison authorities will take the opportunity from the support to improve the management of prison settings. 47 Since the introduction of Nelson Mandela Rules in 2015, UNODC had invested heavily in its translation as a practical guidance and to promote the actual application of the rules in the operation of prison authorities. The course on Nelson Mandela Rules is free of charge, self-paced and followed by a certification. The course contains seven interactive modules covering five thematic areas and 122 rules. The first module deals with the introduction to the rules and the last module is final assessment. The remaining modules cover five core areas of the prison management such as prison conditions, prison regime, safety and security, healthcare, and safeguards. 48 The training course had received 35,000 participants from more than 150 countries since 2019. More than 20,000 participants had successfully managed to complete the training course. The training course is available online at: https://www.unodc.org/elearning/ 26