GCRF_NF101: Internally Displaced Persons and COVID-19: Leveraging local low cost COVID-19 solutions in informal settlements in Zimbabwe

该项目的重点是居住在津巴布韦哈拉雷非正规住区的国内流离失所者。津巴布韦是该地区最新受COVID-19疫情影响的国家之一。虽然政府对这一流行病的反应良好，但目前政府正忙于处理返回的公民，其中一些人在抵达时检测呈阳性，导致感染病例增加。这一制度忽视了国内流离失所者等与世隔绝的人口的困境，他们大多数是移民/难民出身，是发展性流离失所方案（例如臭名昭著的土地改革方案）的受害者，缺乏资源，无法获得重要的公共卫生信息。这个以影响为导向的项目汇集了两所英国大学、三所津巴布韦大学和一个当地非政府组织的跨学科团队，旨在通过调整当地开发的低成本COVID-19解决方案来满足国内流离失所者的需求，从而补充政府目前对大流行病的应对措施。目标是：1.通过研究确定国内流离失所者对COVID-19的了解、知识来源和当前的预防/保护措施以及差距; 2.调整我们的合作研究大学津巴布韦Ezekiel Guti大学最近开发的低成本COVID-19创新（例如消毒剂和口罩），以适应国内流离失所者的情况; 3.制定变革性的COVID-19公共卫生教育计划，通过多种互动沟通渠道进行访问; 4.制作工具包，并通过媒体提供培训，使妇女能够制作家庭使用的COVID-19防护产品; 5.编写政策简报，让有关政府部门参与，将国内流离失所者纳入其发展计划。

This project focuses on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) residing in informal settlements in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is among the latest countries in the region to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst the government has responded well to the pandemic, it is currently preoccupied with returning citizens, some of whom are testing positive on arrival, leading to increasing numbers in infection cases. The system is neglecting the plight of secluded populations such as IDPs, most of whom are of a migrant/refugee heritage and were victims of developmental displacement programmes (e.g. the infamous land reform programme) who lack resources and access to critical public health information. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of two UK universities, three Zimbabwe universities and a local NGO, this impact-oriented project aims to complement the government's current response to the pandemic by adapting locally developed low cost COVID-19 solutions to fit IDPs' needs. Objectives are to: 1. identify through research what IDPs know about COVID-19, sources of the knowledge and current preventive/protective measures and the gaps; 2. adapt the recent low cost COVID-19 innovations (e.g. sanitisers and facemasks) developed by our co-investigator university, Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University, to fit the IDPs context; 3. develop a COVID-19 transformative public health education programme to be accessed through diverse interactive communication channels; 4. produce a toolkit and provide training through media to empower women to make COVID-19 protective products for use by their households; 5. produce policy briefs for engaging relevant government departments to include IDPs in their development plans.