Repair and Repurposing for Pandemic Resilience in Low Income and Humanitarian Settings

迫切需要进行新的研究，为包括布基纳法索在内的撒哈拉以南非洲国家的重叠难民危机和SARS-CoV-2（COVID-19）大流行病的设计应对提供信息。布基纳法索目前正经历着冲突的意外升级、侵犯人权行为、对人类安全与和平建设的威胁，加上意外的大规模人口被迫流离失所，以及前所未有的公共卫生紧急情况。由于对运输和航运的限制，全球电气和电子技术及零部件供应链中断，限制了基本人道主义能源技术的分配。在此背景下，维修和重新利用旧技术和系统，以及继续维护现有的人道主义技术是一项紧迫而重要的人道主义任务;这需要动员当地的维修文化（技能，知识和实践）以及当地采购零部件。这一研究项目与难民署创新处和查塔姆研究所合作，着手填补关于修复在满足人们基本需求方面的程度、意义和潜在作用的重大知识空白。

There is an urgent need for new research to inform the design response to overlapping refugee crises and the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic in countries across Sub Saharan Africa, including Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is currently experiencing an unexpected escalation of conflicts, human rights abuses, threats to human security and peace building, coupled with unanticipated large scale forced population displacement, and an unprecedented public health emergency. Global disruption to supply chains for electrical and electronic technologies and components as a result of restrictions to transportation and shipping is restricting the distribution of essential humanitarian energy technologies. Against this backdrop the repair and repurposing of old technologies and systems, as well as the continued maintenance of existing humanitarian technologies is an urgent and essential humanitarian task; one that requires the mobilisation of locally situated repair cultures (skills, knowledge and practices) as well as the local sourcing of spare parts and components. In partnership with the UNHCR's Innovation Service and Chatham House this research project sets out to address a significant knowledge gap about the extent, significance and potential role of repair in meeting people's basic needs.