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Learning from the Ebola Response in cities: Communication and Engagement (ALNAP Lessons Paper, 2017)

April 1, 2018

The West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014/15 posed a number of urban-specific challenges to humanitarians responding to the crisis. ALNAP’s Learning from the Ebola Response in cities series brings together the lessons learnt from the response in West Africa, with each paper focusing on a topic: quarantine, population movement, and communication.

This paper describes how humanitarians communicated and engaged with urban stakeholders in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. It focuses in particular on how humanitarians navigated urban notions of community, a dense and mobile population, participation in an environment of little trust and other related issues.

Click here for full paper.

Filed Under: Ebola, Guinea, Health, Humanitarian Communications, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Urban Development

Correlates of Intra-Household insecticide-treated mosquito net use in Liberia article (PLoS ONE 11(7) 2016)

July 24, 2016

A study by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) published in the latest version of the journal PLOS ONE, Correlates of Intra-Household ITN Use in Liberia sheds light on ways to increase net use among those with net access. The results reveal a great deal of useful information for those involved in social and behavior change communication (SBCC) malaria interventions in Liberia.

  • This study found that only about one-third of survey respondents had one or more insecticide treated nets in their household. Far fewer had a net for every sleeping space or one for every two people in the house. The proportion of household members sleeping under a net increased dramatically if the household owned two nets, or three or more nets. This means, first and foremost, that Liberians need more nets.
  • Another finding was that female caregiver ideational characteristics were a significant predictor of whether or not nets were being used. If a female caregiver perceived malaria as a severe disease, or felt she was able to recognize signs of severe malaria, members of her household were more likely to have slept under a net. Interestingly, a female caregiver’s perceived susceptibility (whether or not she thinks her family will get malaria) isn’t significantly related to net use. This has been seen in other studies. One explanation is that people sleeping under ITNs feel less likely to get malaria.
  • An encouraging finding was that those exposed to malaria prevention messages were twice as likely to sleep under nets.
  • Two counties were found to have far fewer nets than the others. This helps planners prioritize these areas in upcoming LLIN distributions.

 

Filed Under: Behaviour Change Communication, Health, Liberia, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: Health Communication Capacity Collaborative Project, Health Workers, Malaria, SBCC

Keeping the Faith: The Role of Faith Leaders in the Ebola Response (a joint report by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Tearfund and Islamic Relief 2015)

October 18, 2015

Keeping the Faith, a joint report by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Tearfund and Islamic Relief, shows that Christian and Muslim leaders were able to deliver health messages in parts of the two countries – Liberia and Sierra Leone – that governments and NGOs could not reach. As trusted sources of information, they quashed rumours about the disease – such as that the disease was man-made and being spread deliberately – and encouraged communities to accept life-saving advice from health workers. They also played a crucial role in counselling survivors and challenging stigma.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: Awareness Raising, Behaviour Change Communication, Ebola, Health, Humanitarian, Liberia, Publications (published in print and/or online), Sierra Leone Tagged With: Behaviour, Ebola, Faith-based, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Peace-Building through Media: Opening Dialogue, Liberia

August 12, 2015

In Liberia, Talking Drum Studio, has people from different ethnic groups working on a broad spectrum of programming, that ranges from news and humanitarian information to a radio soap opera, on the problems and dilemmas faced by a Liberian refugee family.

The Common Ground approach is used to identify and tackle local disputes and conflicts in the form of talk shows, in which people representing different sides of an issue are brought together to explore the common understanding between them.

Topics have included conflicts between local NGOs, ethnic groups and political rivals.

The objective of such programmes is to show that even contentious issues can be examined in ways that inform and entertain and at the same time promote the search for solutions.[1]

[1] DFID,  ‘Working with the Media in Conflicts and other Emergencies’ 2000 

Website: www.sfcg.org/common-ground-productions

Filed Under: Burundi, C4D and Peace, Case Studies, Liberia, Peace & Social Cohesion Tagged With: Ethnic Violence, Search for Common Ground

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