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Briefing

Key Considerations: Child Engagement in the Context of Disease Outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa

Effective child engagement strategies are essential to optimise the response to disease outbreaks and minimise their impact while ensuring children’s protection, well-being and resilience. When children understand disease outbreaks, they are better able to cope, contribute and recover. This promotes…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Information Preparedness and Community Engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region

El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks, including direct weather-related hazards, reduced agricultural production, greater food insecurity and malnutrition, increased transmission of infectious diseases and effects on…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Briefings

Key Considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

Key considerations for COVID-19 response and recovery in indigenous populations, with a particular focus on the Amazon region of South America

SSHAP

2021

Briefings

Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks

Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics

SSHAP

2021

Briefings

Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

How health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to, and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach.

SSHAP

2021

Briefings

Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties. It proposes strategies to guide actors involved in vaccine development, communication and deployment…

SSHAP

2020

Briefings

Key Considerations: Emerging Evidence on Shielding Vulnerable Groups During COVID-19

Considerations around the social acceptability and implementation of shielding in low- and middle-income countries

SSHAP

2020

Evidence Reviews

Broader Health Impacts of Vertical Responses to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs)

Review of the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs

SSHAP

2020

Evidence Reviews

Considerations for Home and Community-Based Care for COVID-19

Why home care is important, and an overview of existing guidance and models, with an emphasis on low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs).

SSHAP

2020

Briefings

Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements

Key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.

SSHAP

2020