Engaging Communities During a Pandemic: Experiences of Community Engagement During the COVID-19 response in Camps and Out-of-Camp Settings

Author(s)
Sinclair, H. S. and Vestrheim, K.
Publication language
English
Pages
44
Date published
20 Sep 2020
Publisher
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), Multi-sector/cross-sector, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Engaging with affected populations, Forced displacement and migration, Host Communities, Internal Displacement, Refugee Camps, humanitarian action, Humanitarian Principles
Countries
Global
Use in Humanitarian Programme Cycle
For ensuring community engagement in the design of, feedback on and implementation of COVID-19 responses
Organisations
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Link
https://www.nrc.no/resources/reports/engaging-communities-during-a-pandemic/

This research report explores the experiences, guidelines, reports, initiatives and best practices relating to participation methods among aid agencies’ COVID-19 response. A secondary data and literature review, as well as interviews with 20 agencies in 17 different humanitarian responses were analysed in order to identify best practices and lessons learnt from community engagement efforts in and outside of camp settings. The findings are particularly relevant for camp management and camp coordination agencies, but will also be useful to develop humanitarian agencies’ community engagement approach during a pandemic.

Authors: 
Sinclair, H. S. and Vestrheim, K.