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Rapid qualitative assessments can contribute to efforts to strengthen community awareness, preparedness and response by improving practitioners’ understandings of emergency contexts and helping to tailor strategies and approaches to people’s needs, capacities, and resilience mechanisms. The Collective Service and partners have been piloting a comprehensive and open source social science…
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Overcoming barriers: Integrating South Sudanese refugee health professionals into Uganda’s workforce
Around the world many health professionals displaced as refugees face multiple barriers to securing meaningful work in host countries' health systems. Dr Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor of Anthropology in Global Health, LSHTM, and SSHAP team member, talks about her research among South Sudanese health workers who are refugees in Uganda.
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In May 2024, the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) convened experts from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the surrounding region, the Global North and international agencies for a roundtable discussion on the mpox outbreak which has been spreading in the DRC since early 2023.
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In the context of the global cholera upsurge and in particular the most recent outbreak in Zambia, Eva Niederberger, Santiago Ripoll and Tom Barker blog about the importance of centring cholera outbreak preparedness and response strategies on the circumstances and needs of communities and the experiences and insights of local…
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14 December 2023
Decolonising Humanitarian Action: A Multiplicity of Meanings, Modes and Methods
14 December 2023
Decolonising Humanitarian Action: A Multiplicity of Meanings, Modes and Methods
On 14 December 2023, this webinar, led by SSHAP Fellows, explored the multiple and emerging meanings, modes and methods for decolonising aid and emergency response. Le 14 décembre 2023, ce webinaire, animé par les boursiers SSHAP, explorera les significations, modes et méthodes multiples et émergents pour décoloniser l'aide et les…