Redesigning an education project for child friendly radio: a multisectoral collaboration to promote children’s health, education, and human rights after a humanitarian crisis in Sierra Leone

Barnett, Sarah A.; Dijk, Jetske van; Swaray, Abdulai; Amara, Tamba; Young, Patricia T.

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“…Radio has been used in the immediate response phase of many kinds of natural disasters and with a range of stakeholders, dispatching messages, information or advice to affected communities [18,19,20,21,22]. One practical example of a temporary solution to provide humanitarian radio in an emergency is the ‘radio in a suitcase’ concept.…”

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“…This device contains all the technical means necessary to broadcast radio, such as a mixer, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a computer, a microphone, a 600-W FM transmitter and an antenna packed into two 20-kilogram suitcases and gator flight cases [23]. Radio is advantageous in that it can reach a large number of people with limited technical resources and at a low cost [19]. When no electricity is available—and, therefore, mobile phones, televisions and ordinary media channels are also not available—solar or wind-up radios can be easily distributed and used sustainably without any specific skills [19,22,23].…”

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“…Radio is advantageous in that it can reach a large number of people with limited technical resources and at a low cost [19]. When no electricity is available—and, therefore, mobile phones, televisions and ordinary media channels are also not available—solar or wind-up radios can be easily distributed and used sustainably without any specific skills [19,22,23]. Also, radio can be broadcast on loudspeakers [22,24,25].…”

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“…The providers of humanitarian radio were most often NGOs (based on request from the affected country) in all included studies except three, where ordinary public service radio was used [26,27,28]. Several stakeholders, including local authorities [21,22,26,28,29], UN agencies [22,24], NGOs [18,19,24] and private companies [22], used humanitarian radio as a means of transmitting their information to the affected community. Among these stakeholders, actors from the health sector [18,19,21,22,25,27,29], water and sanitation [22,28], protection [19,24] and education [19] were represented.…”

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“…In the Ebola crises in Western Africa, radio was used to inform listeners about the signs of Ebola, personal protection and preventive measures [29]. All of this information aimed to promote physical health [19,22,28].…”

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The Power of Radio to Promote Health and Resilience in Natural Disasters: A Review

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2019

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Humanitarian radio has been used in humanitarian aid efforts and after natural disasters over the last 15 years. However, the effects have barely been evaluated, and there are few scientific reports on the impact of radio as a disaster health response intervention. Therefore, this study aimed to provide an overview of the use and impact of humanitarian radio in natural disasters from a health perspective. A literature review of 13 scientific papers and grey literature resources was conducted. The results show that humanitarian radio could be used to promote both physical and psychosocial wellbeing by providing health-related information, advice and psychosocial support in natural disasters. Community resilience can be enhanced by the promotion of community engagement and can strengthen self-efficacy and community efficacy. Radio also has the potential to cost-effectively reach a large number of affected people in areas with severely damaged infrastructure. Radio could, therefore, contribute to health recovery and wellbeing from both individual and community perspectives. As such, health professionals; crises communication professionals, including radio journalists; and disaster-managing stakeholders should be prepared and trained to use humanitarian radio as an integrated part of the disaster health response in natural disasters.

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SDG 4 and the COVID-19 emergency: Textbooks, tutoring, and teachers

Chabbott

Sinclair

2020

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COVID-19 once again revealed the inherent weaknesses in relying on classroom-based schooling and ICT to sustain learning, a danger already familiar from earlier man-made and natural disasters. A lack of textbooks and lack of guidance for caregivers to support home-based learning limited the effectiveness of efforts to provide continuity of learning. These same elements are the key to preparing better for the next crisis and keeping SDG 4 on track. KeywordsCOVID-19 • Education in emergencies • SDG 4 • Textbooks • Home-based learning • Peer-tutoring • Teachers • Social and emotional learning (SEL)Given the critical role that education plays in the reproduction of modern societies, it should be surprising that school systems rely so widely on a single delivery system-classroom-based, age-graded schooling-that typically has few fail-safe features. Conventional schools regularly shut down for weeks or months at a time in response to recurring crises, and when they reopen they have permanently lost much learning and many students. Despite heroic, creative, and personally exhausting responses on the part of many educators in recent months, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on school systems worldwide appears to be following the typical crisis pattern, though on a larger scale.The future of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 depends on education systems being better prepared for another crisis, whether that's another global pandemic, the massive population displacements triggered by climate change, or on a smaller scale, armed conflicts and natural disasters. Over the last few months, based on an unsystematic, ad hoc * Colette Chabbott

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Exploring equity in educational policies and interventions in primary and secondary education in the context of public health emergencies: A systematic literature review

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Pyne

Kulophas

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International Journal of Educational Research

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Redesigning an education project for child friendly radio: a multisectoral collaboration to promote children’s health, education, and human rights after a humanitarian crisis in Sierra Leone

Abstract: Sarah Barnett and colleagues describe how an educational project was rapidly adapted into a radio education programme after the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

Cited by 18 publications

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The Power of Radio to Promote Health and Resilience in Natural Disasters: A Review

The Power of Radio to Promote Health and Resilience in Natural Disasters: A Review

SDG 4 and the COVID-19 emergency: Textbooks, tutoring, and teachers

Exploring equity in educational policies and interventions in primary and secondary education in the context of public health emergencies: A systematic literature review

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