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Community engagement - a paradigm shift to WASH programming in emergencies
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Eva NiederbergerCommunity Participation is the backbone of Oxfam’s approach to public health and one of its core
strengths when responding to diseases outbreaks. The Ebola crisis in West Africa however revealed that
public health programming is often adopting instructive approaches rather than building on the local
expertise of affected communities. Oxfam’s public health promotion team therefore revised current
approaches to community mobilisation in WASH which prompted a paradigm shift towards greater
community engagement. This paper provides an overview of the learning, adopted approach, and how
this has shaped Oxfam’s overall public health promotion strategy.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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NIEDERBERGER, E., 2017. Community engagement - a paradigm shift to WASH programming in emergencies. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Local action with international cooperation to improve and sustain water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services: Proceedings of the 40th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK, 24-28 July 2017, Paper 2771, 6pp.Publisher
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