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Joining forces to tackle the Ebola Infodemic in Guinea
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12 May 2021
N’Zerekore – On a sultry morning in early March in the small town of Gouécké in south-eastern Guinea, scores of concerned community and customary leaders gathered for a meeting with WHO’s local team of social anthropologists.
As Guinea’s latest Ebola epidemic continued to slowly spread to towns and villages in the N’zerekore Prefecture, which comprises Gouécké, frightening rumours about the removal of bodies had begun to circulate. Among other things, it was said that the bodies were being used in a lucrative organ trafficking trade, or that medical teams were extracting blood from the corpses for other nefarious purposes.
Directory of Community Guidance on Agreements Relating to Agriculture or Forestry Investments
While there are a number of existing resources that can assist communities and their advocates in their interactions with investors over land from negotiating better agreements with investors, to monitoring whether investors fulfill the terms of their agreements these resources are not always easy to find. CCSI has created a detailed directory that lists relevant guides and other documents, provides links to the original documents, and includes brief descriptions of their content. This directory, provided as a Google document, is available here; it can be viewed online, downloaded, emailed, and printed.
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IMAGE: Volunteer monitoring programs, such as eBird, typically rely on observations made by nonscientist members of the public. view more
Credit: Kayla Farmer
Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called citizen science ) has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones and rapid gains in computing power that make the analysis of large data sets far easier.
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BioScience, handling editors Rick Bonney, of Cornell University, Finn Danielsen, of the Nordic Foundation for Development and Ecology, and colleagues share a special section that highlights numerous community-based monitoring programs currently underway. They also describe the potential for such efforts to advance the scientific enterprise well into the future and make recommendations for best practices and future directions.
Joint Humanitarian Community Press Release: One year on, Bangladesh has so far successfully limited the health impact of COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar [EN/BN]
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Cox’s Bazar, Tuesday 9 March 2021 – One year since Bangladesh registered its first COVID-19 case, the country has so far successfully limited the health impact of COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar while striving to sustain essential health services delivery under challenging circumstances.
“This past year was extraordinary in many ways. For one, the Health Sector led the emergency response with technically sound synergies and intersectional collaboration. On the frontlines,
Cox’s Bazar humanitarians, health care workers and volunteers have relentlessly shown their commitment to provide vital humanitarian and medical assistance, however not without significant personal sacrifices. Pushing to successfully change the course of the pandemic and help sustain important health outcomes, the Government of Bangladesh, donor count