A coalition of leading international organizations has analyzed successful interventions to make key programmatic recommendations for grassroots organizations working on the frontlines of gender and the COVID-19 crisis; as well as policy recommendations for the international community.
Source: A Practical Approach to Prevent, Address and Document Domestic Violence under COVID-19
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This brief offers examples which demonstrate the emerging need for expertise in designing government services for chronic scarcity as society adapts to a new way of life in light of COVID-19.
Government agencies serving their residents during the COVID-19 pandemic have a number of tools at their disposal: public funding, talented and committed staff, connections to goods and services from local organizations, and valuable know-how. This brief offers three recommendations to deal with the situation.
Source: Behavioral Design for COVID-19 Response
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This brief includes some concrete tips for how local and national governments and other institutions can use behavioral design to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities in low and middle-income countries around the world while facilitating social cohesion and the provision of essential services.
These include:
Source (English): Behavioral Sciences Tips for Physical Distancing
Source (Français): Conseils de la Science du Comportement pour l’Eloignement Physique
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This brief provides key considerations for engaging communities on COVID-19 and tips for how to engage where there are movement restrictions and physical distancing measures in place, particularly in low-resource settings.
It is designed for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, government agencies, and other humanitarian and implementing actors working on health promotion, risk communication, and community engagement for COVID-19.
Source: Tips for Engaging Communities during COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings, Remotely and In-Person
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This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular focus on Sierra Leone as this was the hub of the organization’s response.
Source: Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola
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For the large number of low-income country residents who live in informal settlements, or slums, will be ill-served by well-publicized measures that rely on the stockpiling of food, the availability of savings, the ability to work from home, and the need to keep your distance even from close relatives.
In these environments, staying at home can itself be a risk. Cramped, often poorly-ventilated dwellings housing large numbers of people are potential petri dishes for COVID-19. Queuing to use shared toilets or draw water from wells or boreholes, using crowded public transport, or simply walking past others in narrow lanes heighten the risk of exposure.
This guidance document offers eight ideas for adapting prevention standards to slums and informal settlements.
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This brief is intended for development partners, including government and civil society actors. It provides recommendations and resources for responding to the needs of adolescent girls during the COVID-19 crisis and recovery period, including those at risk of early marriage and those who are already married and in informal unions.
It focuses on how adolescent girls, particularly those at risk of marriage or already married girls will be affected in the short- and longer-term.
Source: COVID-19 and Child, Early, and Forced Marriage: An Agenda for Action
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Handwashing with soap, together with other public health interventions, will be key to curbing the transmission of COVID-19.
This technical brief offers guidelines for:
Source: Handwashing with Soap: A Key Part of the COVID-19 Response
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This document suggests key actions on how your community can stay safe and slow down the spread of COVID-19, particularly for contexts where you might have been asked by your local authorities to maintain physical distance or stay home.
The advice is to localize and implement three basic steps:
Source: How Your Community can Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
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This fact sheet explains that misinformation about coronavirus and COVID-19 can create fear and hostility that hurts people and makes it harder to keep everyone healthy. It emphasizes that people are stronger as a community when they stand together against discrimination.
Source: Stigma Reduction (Washington State Department of Health
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