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

迫切需要开展新的研究，为设计应对包括布基纳法索在内的撒哈拉以南非洲国家重叠的难民危机和新冠肺炎大流行提供信息。布基纳法索目前正在经历冲突、侵犯人权、对人类安全和建设和平的威胁的意外升级，加上意外的大规模被迫人口流离失所，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，电气和电子技术及零部件的全球供应链中断，限制了基本人道主义能源技术的分发。在此背景下，修复和重新利用旧技术和系统以及继续维持现有的人道主义技术是一项紧迫和必要的人道主义任务；这需要调动当地的维修文化（技能、知识和实践）以及备件和组件的当地采购。该研究项目与联合国难民署创新处和查塔姆研究所合作，旨在解决关于修复在满足人们基本需求方面的程度、重要性和潜在作用的重大知识差距。

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.