Learning from the Ebola Response in cities: Communication and engagement

Author(s)
Leah Campbell and Luisa Miranda Morel
Publication language
English
Pages
21pp
Date published
02 May 2017
Publisher
ALNAP
Type
Lessons papers
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban
Countries
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Organisations
ALNAP

The West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014/15 posed a number of urban-specific challenges to humanitarians responding to the crisis. ALNAP's Learning from the Ebola Response in cities series brings together the lessons learnt from the response in West Africa, with each paper focusing on a topic: quarantine, population movement, and communication.

Communication and engagement 

This paper describes how humanitarians communicated and engaged with urban stakeholders in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. It focuses in particular on how humanitarians navigated urban notions of community, a dense and mobile population, participation in an environment of little trust and other related issues.