ArticleWorld development2021
Localising Public Health: Refugee-led organisations as first and last responders in COVID-19.
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- The localisation of humanitarian response to conflict and displacement: a scoping review from a health systems perspective.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Addressing COVID-19 inequities using bidirectional crisis and emergency risk communication and vaccine clinic interventions: a descriptive study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- "Lived the Pandemic Twice": A Scoping Review of the Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Challenges and difficulties in implementing and adopting isolation and quarantine measures among internally displaced people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mali (161/250).Journal of migration and health · 2022Article
- A cross-sectional study of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on camped refugees in Ghana.PloS one · 2022Article
- Refugees and Covid-19: Beyond Health Risks to Insecurity.Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft = Revue suisse de science politique = Swiss political science review · 2021Article
- Refugee Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review of Global Policy Responses.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Review
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing socioeconomic impact on already marginalised refugee communities demonstrate both the need for, and lack of, localisation in humanitarian and development responses. Our research with organisations founded and led by refugees, termed here refugee-led organisations (RLOs), in camps and cities in Kenya and Uganda shows their potential to be an asset in the response to COVID-19 and in contributing to more effective and participatory forms of humanitarian assistance. In this research note we draw on pre-pandemic research with around 80 RLOs and follow-up research with 15 in Uganda and Kenya who are actively responding to the pandemic and its effects. We identify five key areas in which refugees are or could be involved as responders to COVID-19 and other pandemics: providing public information, supplementing capacity gaps, healthcare delivery, shaping social norms, and virus tracking and contact tracing. Our research during COVID-19 shows how RLOs have pivoted their existing service provision to fill assistance gaps, including in areas directly related to public health. As the humanitarian system searches for ways to implement remote and participatory approaches to refugee assistance, RLOs offer great potential, if mechanisms can be found to identify those that are effective, provide them with funding, and build their capacities.
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