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

这个项目的重点是居住在津巴布韦哈拉雷非正式定居点的国内流离失所者。津巴布韦是该地区最新受到COVID-19大流行影响的国家之一。虽然政府对这次大流行作出了良好的反应，但它目前的主要任务是处理回国的公民，其中一些人在抵达时检测呈阳性，导致感染病例数量增加。该系统忽视了国内流离失所者等被隔离人群的困境，他们大多数是移民/难民遗产，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，他们缺乏资源和获得关键公共卫生信息的途径。这个以影响为导向的项目由两所英国大学、三所津巴布韦大学和一家当地非政府组织组成的跨学科团队组成，旨在通过调整当地开发的低成本COVID-19解决方案，以满足国内流离失所者的需求，补充政府目前对疫情的应对措施。目标是：1。通过研究确定国内流离失所者对COVID-19的了解情况、知识来源和当前的预防/保护措施以及差距；2. 采用我们的合作研究大学津巴布韦以西结古提大学（Ezekiel Guti university）最近开发的低成本COVID-19创新产品（例如消毒剂和口罩），以适应国内流离失所者的情况；3. 制定2019冠状病毒病变革性公共卫生教育规划，通过各种互动沟通渠道提供服务；4. 制作工具包并通过媒体提供培训，使妇女有能力制作COVID-19防护产品供家庭使用；5. 制作政策简报，邀请有关政府部门将境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.