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Changing the gendered dynamics of refugee classrooms in West Africa: introducing female classroom assistants
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June 3, 2016

Refugee schools in West Africa tend to be dominated by men, with even early years classes taught mostly by male teachers. There are very few female teachers and even fewer female head teachers or education administrators. Although enrollment in the lower classes is more or less gender balanced, by the upper primary level, many of… Read more

Africa, gender and education, refugee education, Women and girls
Education
Reintegrating and employing high risk youth in Liberia: lessons from a randomized evaluation of a landmine action agricultural training program for ex-combatants
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November 23, 2015

Despite a lack of rigorous evidence, states and aid agencies encourage employment programmes to rehabilitate men who are at risk of returning to violence, in the belief that peaceful work opportunities will deter them from crime and violence. This paper presents an evaluation of a programme of agricultural training, capital inputs, and counselling for Liberians… Read more

liberia, skills development, Youth, Youth Employment
Health
Impact and implications of the Ebola crisis
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November 3, 2015

The current Ebola outbreak is concentrated in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea: countries with limited state capacity which are recovering from political instability and conflict. The indirect consequences of the Ebola epidemic and its disruption of public and private services threaten the lives and livelihoods of more than 22 million people in Ebola-affected areas. As… Read more

Ebola, Sierra Leone
Health
West African Ebola Epidemic after One Year — Slowing but Not Yet under Control
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June 8, 2015

This correspondence from the WHO Ebola Response Team focuses on the West African ebola epidemic after one year. It explains how the uneven success of ebola control measures to date, in the face of shifting geographic patterns of transmission, illustrates the continuing threat posed by the Ebola virus 1 year after the start of the epidemic. A total… Read more

Ebola
Health
Ebola – Traditional healers, witch doctors, burial attendants
Helpdesk Report
March 17, 2015

This helpdesk focuses on the impact of traditional healers, witch doctors and burial attendants on ebola in West Africa. It seeks to establish if there is a difference between witch doctors, herbalists and traditional healers in terms of when people see them and the kind of treatment they provide. It goes on to explore the… Read more

Ebola
Health
A Wake-up Call – Lessons from Ebola for the world’s health systems
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March 17, 2015

There is general agreement that the Ebola crisis was not quickly contained in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because their national health systems were dangerously under-resourced, understaffed and poorly equipped. A Wake-up Call argues that we must learn the lessons of this crisis not just for the three countries but for the many other developing countries… Read more

Health
Local Engagement in Ebola Outbreaks and Beyond in Sierra Leone
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March 4, 2015

Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are therefore vital. Unfortunately such approaches have not been widespread in West Africa where response strategies have been predominantly top-down. Authoritarian tactics have had questionable effect, potentially worsening… Read more

Ebola, Health, Politics and Power
Gender
Health
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The Pathology of Inequality: Gender and Ebola in West Africa
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March 4, 2015

The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, we need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that enabled Ebola to move so rapidly across boundaries of people’s bodies, villages, towns and countries. Gender… Read more

Ebola, Gender, Health
Health
Urbanisation, the Peri-urban Growth and Zoonotic Disease
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March 4, 2015

Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations. These interconnections fuel the spread of Ebola. The degradation of natural resources, temporary… Read more

Ebola, Health, Urbanisation, Zoonoses
Health
Ebola and Extractive Industry
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March 4, 2015

The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore geological beltway. The macroeconomic impacts of the crisis came into sharp focus when London Mining, Sierra Leone’s second… Read more

Ebola, Health, Industry
Health
Ebola, Politics and Ecology: Beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative’
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March 4, 2015

The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre. Understanding how these factors may have combined in south-eastern Guinea near the end of 2013 requires us to rethink elements of the familiar Ebola ‘outbreak… Read more

Ebola, Health, Politics and Power, Zoonoses
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