Guide: UNICEF Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators in Community Engagement
by Mesh Editorial TeamUNICEF C4D's Minimum quality standards and indicators in community engagement provide globally established guidance on the contribution of community engagement in development practice as well as humanitarian action.
Guide: The Red Cross Community Engagement Hub: COVID-19 Resources
by The Red Cross, Mesh Editorial TeamThe Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has developed a hub to share our information, knowledge and resources about community engagement and accountability. Their COVID-19 area provides tools and resources to help incorporate community engagement and accountability into COVID-19 humanitarian operations
Academic Literature: Lessons from the West Africa Ebola Epidemic: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological and Social and Behavioural Science Research Priorities
by S. A. Abramowitz, D. B Hipgrave, A. Witchard, D. L. Heymann, Mesh Editorial TeamThis literature review compared epidemiological research (EPI) with qualitative social and behavioural science research (SBS) published during the West African Ebola epidemic.
Report: Generating some Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement for Development and Humanitarian Practice in a Health Emergency : An Interview with Jamie Bedson
by Mesh Editorial TeamAcademic Literature: Word of Mouth: Learning from Polio Communication and Community Engagement Initiatives - Insights and Ideas to Accelerate Action on Other Development Issues
by USAID Maternal Child Survival Program, Mesh Editorial TeamRepository: Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
by Mesh Editorial TeamAcademic literature: Trust, fear, stigma and disruptions: community perceptions and experiences during periods of low but ongoing transmission of Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone, 2015
by Nuriddin et al, 2018, Mesh Editorial TeamAcademic literature: Community engagement: Leadership tool for catastrophic health events
by Mesh Editorial Team, Monica Schoch-Spana, Crystal Franco, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, and Christiana UsenzaAcademic Literature: Enablers and Barriers to Community Engagement in Public Health Emergency Preparedess: A Literature Review
by Ramsbottom, A., et al 2017, Mesh Editorial TeamWatch a Livestream of the Clade X Pandemic Tabletop Exercise
by Mesh Editorial TeamOn the 15th May, the John Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted Clade X, a pandemic tabletop exercise. The exercise was designed to illustrate high-level strategic decisions and policies needed to prevent a severe pandemic or diminish its consequences should prevent fail. The exercise was streamed live and can still be accessed through this article.
Red Cross's Jemilah Mahmood Offers 5 Principles for Improved Community Engagement During Humanitarian Action
by Mesh Editorial TeamDr. Jemilah Mahmood, undersecretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies gave the keynote at the Medicine Sans Frontiere annual Scientific Day 2017. Her message was that humanitarian work needs to work far closer with local populations before, during and after humanitarian action. She emphasises five key principles to achieving this all of which would be relevant to those working in engagement with research in low income settings as well as humanitarian aid workers.