Lessons for Resilience
Consider appropriate composition of community engagement teams
Topic:
Communities
Keywords:
Community participation
Vulnerable people
Vulnerable people
Content:
Local government should ensure appropriate composition of their community engagement teams, and the impacts this can have on women and other marginalised groups. Women face specific constraints when gaining access to information on outbreaks and services that they need to access. This can be further hindered by community engagement teams that are dominated by men.
Source link(s):
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Sierra Leone
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29558199/