Assessing differential socio-demographic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban livelihood capitals in suburban Accra, Ghana

Frimpong, Louis Kusi; Mensah, Stephen Leonard; Okyere, Seth Asare; Abunyewah, Matthew; Diko, Stephen Kofi; Amankwaa, Gordon

doi:10.1007/s42532-023-00173-7

Socio Ecol Pract Res

2024

DOI: 10.1007/s42532-023-00173-7

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Assessing differential socio-demographic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban livelihood capitals in suburban Accra, Ghana

Louis Kusi Frimpong,

Stephen Leonard Mensah,

Seth Asare Okyere

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A tale of two disasters: Unpacking how social learning from the Ebola epidemic shaped COVID‐19 response in informal settlements in Freetown

Diko,

Okyere,

Frimpong

et al. 2024

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Prior disaster experiences often provide lessons for communities to respond to new disasters. In informal communities prone to disasters but conditioned within reactive disaster management regimes, residents and Community‐Based Organizations (CBOs) play immense roles in disaster risk reduction and response. In Freetown, Sierra Leone, limited government disaster capacities during health disasters like Ebola and the COVID‐19 pandemic occasioned community action led by residents and CBOs. This paper, utilizing qualitative data, draws on the social learning theory to unpack how residents’ and CBOs’ experiences with the Ebola epidemic provided profound lessons that contributed to the COVID‐19 pandemic response in two informal communities. Findings highlight how prior disaster experiences consolidate memory and generate attention, retention, motivation, and reproduction of lessons for future disasters. The paper also fronts how lessons from peoples’ lived experiences with disasters can offer pluralistic ways of knowing about disasters and responding to future risks through co‐productive and equitable strategies.

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A tale of two disasters: Unpacking how social learning from the Ebola epidemic shaped COVID‐19 response in informal settlements in Freetown

Diko,

Okyere,

Frimpong

et al. 2024

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Experiences of women artisans in Ghana’s informal construction sector: the COVID-19 aftermath and its implications

Awuku,

Sakyi-Darko

2024

Development in Practice

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Assessing differential socio-demographic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban livelihood capitals in suburban Accra, Ghana

Cited by 2 publications

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A tale of two disasters: Unpacking how social learning from the Ebola epidemic shaped COVID‐19 response in informal settlements in Freetown

A tale of two disasters: Unpacking how social learning from the Ebola epidemic shaped COVID‐19 response in informal settlements in Freetown

Experiences of women artisans in Ghana’s informal construction sector: the COVID-19 aftermath and its implications

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