Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP): Recent submissions
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Incorporating Non-Expert Evidence into Surveillance and Early Detection of Public Health Emergencies
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04)‘Big data’ has promised significant improvements for the global surveillance of infectious disease. This SSHAP Case Study highlights how, over the past two decades, new disease surveillance practices built on amassing and ... -
People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04)This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and ... -
Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa (April 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-04)This brief reports on attitudes and practices relating to physical distancing measures in Eastern and Southern Africa in the context of the current global COVID-19 outbreak. Where relevant, it also includes insight and ... -
Assessing Key Considerations for Burial Practices, Death and Mourning in Epidemics
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04-02)This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic. It provides guidance on the relevant social science knowledge ... -
Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements (March 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-03)This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19. There is heightened concern about these settings because of the combination of population density ... -
Key Considerations: Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19 (March 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-03)This brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details ... -
Key Considerations: Quarantine in the Context of COVID-19 (February 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-02)This brief sets out practical considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns in the context of COVID-19. These measures include: quarantine, in which individuals who have ... -
Social Dimensions of the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak and Response: Meeting Report
(SSHAP, 2020-01)Report of Roundtable at the Wellcome Trust, London, 3rd February 2020. Roundtable objectives: To discuss appropriate social science and humanities inputs that can improve understanding of the outbreak in global terms, ... -
Social Science and Behavioural Data Compilation (#5), Ebola Outbreak Eastern DRC, September-November 2019, SSHAP
(SSHAP, 2020-01-14)This rapid compilation of data analyses provides a ‘stock-take’ of social science and behavioural data related to the on-going outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces. Based on data gathered and ... -
Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between South Sudan and DRC
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-11-11)This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and surrounding provinces. In ... -
Social Science and Behavioural Data Compilation (#4), Ebola Outbreak Eastern DRC, June-August 2019
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019)This rapid compilation of data analyses provides a ‘stock-take’ of social science and behavioural data related to the on-going outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces. Based on data gathered and ... -
Cross Border Dynamics: Burundi-DRC (Updated August 2019)
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-08-05)This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. It is the third ... -
The Context of Sofala and Manica in Relation to Cyclone Idai Response in Mozambique
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-07)Rapid review question: What contextual factors (e.g. community structures and dynamics) are relevant in the urban and rural areas affected by cyclone Idai (Sofala and Manica provinces)? How do social and cultural factors ... -
Health-Seeking Behaviours in Sofala and Manica in Relation to Cyclone Idai Response
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-07)Rapid review question: What are the health-seeking and nutritional practices of the affected populations? How do they frame, understand and engage in prevention of cholera/AWD, malaria, measles/rubella (or vaccine preventable ... -
Cross-Border Dynamics and Healthcare in West Nile, Uganda
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-07)Against the backdrop of on-going preparedness work in Uganda as related to the outbreak of Ebola in DRC, this brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics and health structures and behaviours in the ... -
Social Science and Behavioural Data Compilation (No. 3), Ebola Outbreak Eastern DRC February-May 2019
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-06-25)This rapid compilation of data analyses provides a ‘stock-take’ of social science and behavioural data related to the on-going outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. Based on data gathered and analysed by ... -
Key Considerations: Bushmeat in the Border Areas of South Sudan and DRC
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-05-22)In the context of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), May 2019, this brief summarises key considerations about bushmeat (meat derived from wild animals for human consumption) in the context ... -
Politics, Factions and Violence: Listening to Local Voices on Ebola. Local Media Update 3 (February-April 2019)
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-05-21)This brief summarises local media and messages circulating via social media outlets including WhatsApp and local radio and press outlets in the Beni and Butembo areas of North Kivu, DRC between February and April 2019. It ... -
Rwanda – DRC Cross Border Dynamics, April 2019
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-04)This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. It is the second ... -
Planning for Post-Ebola: Lessons Learned From DR Congo’s 9th Epidemic, Part III: Recovery
(UNICEF, 2018)This report is for supervisors managing ongoing Ebola outbreaks, or working on preparedness and recovery activities in regions at risk of, or affected by, Ebola epidemics. It is based on rapid and intensive ethnographic ...