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Seeking safety: Identifying protection gaps for artists in South Sudan

Protection of artists during times of conflict has no specific framework in international humanitarian law. However, cultural sites, artefacts and institutions are protected. This article contributes empirical evidence from South Sudan to reveal how artists experience the protection gap and…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

Article

Negotiating faith in exile: learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda

Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. This paper explores how faith has been entangled within the dynamics of two spatially connected crises: Ugandans fleeing post-Amin reprisals in the mid-1980s, and South Sudanese fleeing…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2024

Article

Protection and containment: surviving COVID-19 in Palabek refugee settlement, Northern Uganda

Humanitarian assistance is framed around ‘protection’. Deciding whom to protect and against what is not straightforward, particularly during a pandemic. This article critically explores containment and protection by focusing on refugee self-protection in Uganda.

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

Article

Community self-protection, public authority and the safety of strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan

Protection is not simply something done or delivered to people by states, humanitarian organisations and armed peacekeepers. We use interview data from communities in Bor and Ler, South Sudan, long affected by conflict, to show how attention to the relationship…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2024

Article

Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan

Many contemporary humanitarian organisations derive their legitimacy from their claims to protect civilians. Yet, what these organisations do in its name includes a diverse and contested range of activities that are often far from what global publics and affected populations…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2024

Article

The safety of strangers: the realities and politics of protecting civilians in times of war

Recent wars have brutally shown that civilians are not safe. This is despite high-level global commitments and multi-billion-dollar humanitarian spending to keep civilian strangers protected. The high civilian death tolls in recent armed conflicts are prompting new questions about how…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

Research paper

Diagnosis, treatment, and management of mpox in urban informal settlements in southwestern Nigeria: an ethnographic approach

This paper, based on an ethnographic study in southwestern Nigeria, seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of not only the health care access barriers, but the complex geographical, economic, and sociocultural factors that shape how and when people…

West Africa Hub

BMC Public Health

2025

Research paper

Infrastructures of epidemic response: mpox and everyday repair work in southwestern Nigeria

This paper examines community-based surveillance and primary health care as intersecting infrastructures to draw learning from lived experiences of mpox and the response to the mpox outbreak in southwestern Nigeria during 2022-23.

West Africa Hub

Social Science & Medicine

2024

Tools

Mapping community engagement tools for vaccination in LMIC settings

This resource, which maps and characterises community engagement tools used for vaccination in low and middle income settings, is the results of a study from the Pulse project.

Université de Genève

2025

Question Bank

Tools

Viral haemorrhagic fevers question bank

This Question Bank is relevant to outbreaks where person-to-person transmission has been identified as significant to an outbreak's spread and where patient experiences must be understood for a community-centred response.

SSHAP

2025

Tools

Rapid qualitative assessment training – 10 modules in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

This training aims to contribute to more effective and community-centred responses by strengthening systems for the utilisation of community data in emergency response by ministries of health, government and partners.

Collective Service

2024

Briefing

Post-trauma impacts in conflict-affected communities in northern Nigeria

This Key Considerations brief compares the biomedical framing of post-traumatic stress disorder with the social science understanding of the drivers of and possible solutions for mental health impacts of trauma.

West Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024