Course participants pilot their data collection tools by speaking with mothers, Mazowe Health Facility, Zimbabwe. June 2024
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Using Rapid Qualitative Assessments for emergency response in Zimbabwe

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…
Ginger A. Johnson
17 Jul 2024
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SSHAP hosts roundtable discussion on the mpox outbreak in the DRC

11th June 2024
Contextual social, political and livelihood understandings, factors affecting care-seeking and challenges to vaccination rollout were among the on-the-ground realities relating to mpox spread that experts discussed.
Central and East Africa Hub
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Introducing the first Arabic language cohort of SSHAP Fellows

19th February 2024
We are excited to announce the 12 individuals who will be participating in the first Arabic language phase of the SSHAP fellowship. This cohort includes social scientists and humanitarian practitioners from The MENA region as well as West and East Africa.
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Call for applications for the first Arabic SSHAP Fellowship

13th December 2023
We are launching the next phase of our Fellowship Programme in Arabic to begin in February 2024. The fellowship is for future leaders who can make linkages between social science and humanitarian emergencies in a locally relevant way.
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14 December 2023
Decolonising Humanitarian Action: A Multiplicity of Meanings, Modes and Methods

Decolonising Humanitarian Action: A Multiplicity of Meanings, Modes & 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…
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‘Sword in the water’: local peoples’ perceptions of NGOs in eastern DRC

In this blog, Sylvie Imata and Godefroid Muzalia, who work at Groupe d'Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH) - a Central & East Africa Regional Hub partner organisation - explore how humanitarian actors, including NGOs, can be aware of and sensitive to the needs and perceptions of…
Central and East Africa Hub
Sylvie Imata, Godefroid Muzalia
24 Oct 2023