Left Behind: The Multiple Impacts of Covid-19 on Forcibly Displaced People
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2022-04-12Author
Korobkova, Natalia
Nepesova, Nina
Valette, Delphine
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To better understand vaccination barriers and the impacts of Covid-19 on forcibly displaced persons (FDPs, i.e. refugees, and internally displaced persons (IDPs)), World Vision International carried out a multi-country survey of refugee populations in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jordan, and Turkey, and IDPs in Venezuela. The survey found that a combination of barriers led to FDPs falling through the gaps of national Covid-19 vaccination campaigns, despite their heightened vulnerability to Covid-19 infection and transmission. Only one person out of the 1,914 FDPs surveyed reported receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. The survey also highlighted the significant indirect impacts of the pandemic on forcibly displaced families, and children specifically, with the socioeconomic aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic worsening displaced children’s deprivations across health and nutrition, protection support, and education.
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Korobkova, N.; Nepesova, N. and Valette, D. (2022) ‘Left Behind: The Multiple Impacts of Covid-19 on Forcibly Displaced People’ in Allouche, J. and te Lintelo, D.J.H. (Eds) Humanitarianism and Covid-19: Structural Dilemmas, Fault Lines, and New Perspectives, IDS Bulletin 53.2, Brighton: IDSDOI
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