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Covid-19 Response and Protracted Exclusion of Informal Settlement Residents in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Freetown has over 1 million residents, many of whom live in about 68 crowded informal settlements. Residents of these settlements struggle daily to access basic services such as water, sanitation, and health-care services. We found that the government’s COVID-19 response measures (curfews, lockdowns, and travel restrictions) excluded informal residents from contributing to its design, and […]
Covid-19 Response and Protracted Exclusion of Informal Settlement Residents in Freetown, Sierra Leone
India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh

Improving safeguarding in the ARISE Hub and beyond

Much of the current discussion on safeguarding comes from the perspective of the humanitarian sector, and direct service provision and implementation. Additionally, researchers working in global health also experience safeguarding challenges, and research funders and donors require assurance that safeguarding processes and policies are developed and implemented to protect participants and researchers, yet governance in […]
Improving safeguarding in ARISE Story of Change
Sierra Leone, Bangladesh

ARISE co-researchers: Working collaboratively to build capacity

One of our core strategies to affect change is to support capacity strengthening of urban marginalised co-researchers to generate, collect, and use evidence as new localised knowledge to instigate change. Strengthening capabilities of urban marginalised people to engage with research processes is central to the principles of CBPR and meaningful participation of marginalised communities. ARISE […]
ARISE co-researchers Story of change
Sierra Leone

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]
Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown
Sierra Leone, Liberia

Psychological resilience, fragility and the health workforce: lessons on pandemic preparedness from Liberia and Sierra Leone

COVID-19 presents a time to redefine vulnerability; however, in discussions of vulnerability, the health workforce, particularly in regard to their psychosocial well-being, is often forgotten. Healthcare workers (HCWs) in fragile settings are constantly exposed to health system shocks, including; conflict, disease outbreaks and natural disasters, which compound the everyday challenges of working in an under-resourced […]
Psychological resilience
Sierra Leone

Urban Health: From Local Community Action to a Healthy Freetown

This Practitioner Brief has been produced based on the discussions and agreements that took place during the City Learning Platform (CiLP) meeting in February 2020. The meeting was hosted and coordinated by the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC), who also reported on the agreements. Health is intertwined with living conditions in the city. Determinants […]
Freetown City Learning Platform
India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh

Question and answer on COVID-19 for informal settlements

Introduction Dr Tom Wingfield is Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is part of the COVID-19 response in Liverpool and the UK. He has previously worked in informal settlements in Peru, Nepal and Mozambique. Here are short answers to questions put to him from Slum/Shack Dwellers […]
COVID-19 factsheet
India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh

COVID-19 information videos for informal settlements

With Tom Wingfield of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine we have put together a series of videos to explain more about COVID-19. The first of these provides an overview (approximately 22 minutes long) and the others are shorter and focus on particular topics. Since creating the videos we have sought advice on two additional issues: […]
COVID-19 video

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