Stopping Ebola in its Tracks: A Community-Led Response

Global Communities’ response to the Ebola outbreak has been publicly highlighted by President Obama, Dr. Rajiv Shah, former USAID Administrator, Jeremy Konyndyk, Director, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), and many others as having been a key component in the successful fight against Ebola in Liberia in the 2014-15 outbreak (see pages 36-38). This publication therefore has two strands:
1. Describing Global Communities’ response to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia
2. Deriving from this experience lessons learned and recommendations for preventing and dealing with future disasters
This publication describes the process of adaptation, collaboration and partnership which helped the response to be successful, detailing the challenges along the way that led to further adaptation.