Creating a Real-Time Rumor Management System: Technical Brief

This document includes important considerations and resources to support country programs in creating a functional rumor management system, enabling two-way communication with affected communities. It also includes guidance on obtaining feedback from communities on their beliefs (including rumors, misinformation, and disinformation), disseminating accurate information, and monitoring these approaches. Implementing this system while maintaining physical distancing is particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    Socially Marginalized Groups and COVID-19: Technical Brief

    This Technical Brief looks at how social inequalities influence people’s experiences with and needs during COVID-19. It offers recommendations on how to integrate the needs of socially marginalized groups into the COVID-19 response.

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      Using SMS and IVR-Surveys During COVID-19: Technical Brief

      This technical brief is intended to serve as guidance for systematically administering Short Message Service (SMS) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR)-based surveys to collect data1 from a stratified sample of participants. The brief includes a number of reference documents and resource people to contact for additional information.

      This document is not intended to guide push or blast messaging, or opt-in texting to a short code. It is important to distinguish between SMS and IVR efforts that push or disseminate information or educational messages or collect data from opt-in self-selecting samples.

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        Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19

        This brief considers the rationale for shielding individuals at high risk of severe disease or death from COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries.

        It provides an overview of proposed approaches to shielding, discusses the categories of individuals who may be identified for shielding, and outlines the likely difficulties of these measures and ways to mitigate them. It is noted that the authors are not aware of any precedent for targeted shielding of specific groups in low- and middle-income countries during this or any other outbreak. As such, shielding as an approach is untested.

        The authors attempt to provide considerations regarding the feasibility and challenges of this approach, particularly in low- and middle-income settings. Decisions on shielding, they write, will need to pay particular attention to the local socio-economic context, be made in collaboration with local actors, and be continually adapted in light of emerging evidence about the approach’s effectiveness, the characteristics of the COVID-19 and the trajectories of the outbreaks.

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          Integrating Gender in the COVID-19 RCCE Response: Technical Brief

          Integrating gender into the COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) response demands consideration of how gender norms and roles, as well as inequitable power dynamics and decision-making, influence people’s experiences and needs at all stages. This technical brief provides practical recommendations to integrate gender across the six pillars of the RCCE response.

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            Guidance on SBC for Family Planning During COVID-19

            This short guide includes important considerations, messages, and resources to support country programs in adapting their FP/RH-focused SBC programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19. Program adaptations and messaging should be adapted in line with country context, available services, and local government response, including that of coordinating bodies responsible for COVID19 risk communication and community engagement efforts.

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            Conseils Sur Le Changement Social Et De Comportement Pour La Planification Familiale Pendant Le Covid-19

            Orientación Sobre El Cambio Social Y De Comportamiento Para La Planificación Familiar Durante El COVID-19

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              Disrupting COVID-19 Stigma: Technical Brief

              This short guide includes important considerations and resources to support country programs in recognizing and working to reduce stigma around COVID-19.

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                COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Guidance for Field Teams: Technical Brief

                This is a short guide, with important steps and resources, on how country programs can track and address rumors around COVID-19 (as needed). The guide includes a number of great resources and links while also sharing nuggets from global, collective thinking around rumors.

                The guide includes sections on:

                • Coordinating
                • Discovering the rumors
                • Verifying the information
                • Engaging the community

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                  Technical Note on COVID-19 and Harmful Practices

                  COVID-19 has upended the lives of children and families across the globe and is impacting efforts to end child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Actions taken to contain the spread of the pandemic – such as school closures and movement restrictions – are disrupting children’s routines and their support systems.

                  Hundreds of millions of children and adolescents will likely face increasing threats to their safety and well-being, including gender-based violence (GBV), exploitation, abuse and neglect, social exclusion, and/or separation from caregivers and friends. We know from the Ebola outbreaks and from other public health crises that adolescent girls are disproportionally affected by these emergencies. Efforts to stop the Ebola epidemics led to school closures and a loss of education; a decrease in access to reproductive health information and services; a loss of livelihoods and a contraction of social support networks. These undermine strategies to end FGM and child marriage, and threaten the progress that has been made over the past decade.

                  This technical note offers a list of effects of COVID-19 on adolescenets as well as program interventions at the national and community level.

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                    Not just hotlines and mobile phones: GBV Service provision during COVID-19

                    As countries across the globe struggle to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are being raised about the effect of the pandemic on Gender Based Violence (GBV) in all countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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