Operational Considerations: COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Middle East and East Africa

Author(s)
Duclos, D. & Palmer, J.
Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
01 Jul 2020
Type
Plans, policy and strategy
Keywords
Accountability to affected populations (AAP), Conflict, violence & peace, Coordination, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Forced displacement and migration, Governance, humanitarian action, Humanitarian Principles, Protection, human rights & security
Organisations
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP)
Link
https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/operational-considerations-covid-19-and-forced-displacement-in-the-middle-east-a

Across the Middle East and East Africa, COVID-19 is compounding vulnerabilities already experienced by populations forcibly displaced by war (refugees, asylum-seekers, internally-displaced and stateless persons). In addition to the devastating health threat the pandemic poses, lockdown measures imposed by governments to reduce transmission are having outsized effects on forcibly displaced populations, further entrenching poverty, xenophobia and creating new humanitarian protection issues.

This summary paper puts forward considerations of the ways in which humanitarian actors, civil society organisations and government departments with specific responsibilities towards displaced people can contribute to lessening vulnerabilities in this pandemic.

For further considerations and details on local COVID-19 responses by forcibly displaced populations across the Middle East & East Africa, see our full Background Paper: COVID-19 and forced displacement in the Middle East & East Africa.

Authors: 
Social Science in Humanitarian Action: A Communication for Development Platform

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