Briefing
Child engagement in the context of disease outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa
This brief explores why, when and how to engage children in the prevention, response and recovery stages of disease outbreaks.
Spanish
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…
Briefing
Situational analysis: Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania
This Key Considerations brief provides an overview of the Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, as well as contextual factors to inform considerations for responses in both countries.
Briefing
Engaging Young People in Latin American and the Caribbean in the COVID-19 Response
This brief draws on academic and grey literature exploring how COVID-19 affects young people, as well as literature describing the pandemic response in Latin American and the Caribbean and other regions. It offers considerations on how to engage youth by…
Tools
Citizen ethnography in outbreak response: Guidance for establishing networks of researchers
This guidance outlines the steps for designing and implementing citizen-led ethnographic research, including those for recruitment, training and support of citizen researchers to collect and analyse ethnographic data, and how to transform the insights they gain to support preparedness and…
Briefing
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
Briefing
Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics
Briefing
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.
Briefing
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…
Briefing
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
Evidence review
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
Evidence review
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).
