Participation of the Diaspora in the Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership

The Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership and Action Plan was adopted in Lisbon in 2007. This new strategy, which is often referred to as a ‘people-centred partnership’, was launched with the purpose of scaling-up political dialogue between the African Union (AU) and the EU in the interests of building a solid and sustainable continent-to-continent partnership. It aims to reinvigorate and elevate cooperation between Africa and Europe in the fight against poverty, injustice, human rights violations, lawlessness, insecurity and political and social instability. The priorities of the partnership programme are organised around eight themes: peace and security; democratic governance and human rights; trade, regional integration and infrastructure; the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); energy; climate change; migration, mobility and employment; and science, information society and space. The programme stipulates that Africa and the EU will pursue and implement policies and programmes that facilitate the active involvement of diaspora communities in the implementation of the strategy

Social contact data for IDPs in Somaliland (2019)

Social contact data for internally displaced people (IDP) living in Digaale IDP camp in Somaliland. Participants reported all their direct contacts in the 24 hours preceding the survey. This survey was conducted in 2019. Data is formatted to be used in the socialmixr package in R

Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland.

BACKGROUND: Populations affected by humanitarian crises experience high burdens of acute respiratory infections (ARI), potentially driven by risk factors for severe disease such as poor nutrition and underlying conditions, and risk factors that may increase transmission such as overcrowding and the possibility of high social mixing. However, little is known about social mixing patterns in these populations. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional social contact survey among internally displaced people (IDP) living in Digaale, a permanent IDP camp in Somaliland. We included questions on household demographics, shelter quality, crowding, travel frequency, health status, and recent diagnosis of pneumonia, and assessed anthropometric status in children. We present the prevalence of several risk factors relevant to transmission of respiratory infections, and calculated age-standardised social contact matrices to assess population mixing. RESULTS: We found crowded households with high proportions of recent self-reported pneumonia (46% in children). 20% of children younger than five are stunted, and crude death rates are high in all age groups. ARI risk factors were common. Participants reported around 10 direct contacts per day. Social contact patterns are assortative by age, and physical contact rates are very high (78%). CONCLUSIONS: ARI risk factors are very common in this population, while the large degree of contacts that involve physical touch could further increase transmission. Such IDP settings potentially present a perfect storm of risk factors for ARIs and their transmission, and innovative approaches to address such risks are urgently needed

kevinvzandvoort/espicc-somaliland-digaale-survey-2019

Analysis scripts, anonymized data, and questionnaire scripts for: "Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland". The following questionnaires are available: A household survey asking about household-level risk factors and household demographics; A contact survey asking about social contacts within the 24 hours before the survey, and individual-level risk factors for respiratory infections; A form to enter anthropometric measures; A form to ask neighbours of shelters that were absent on all visits about the status of these shelters. Only a subset of the data collected with these questionnaires during the survey has been used for this analysis. Data has been anonymized, and links between household-, contact-, and nutrition- data have been removed. The anonymized data can be used to replicate all analyses, figures, and tables in the manuscript. The following datasets are included: Reported household-level risk-factors collected with the s1_household form; Age-group and sex of household members collected with the s1_household form; Age of people reported to have left surveyed households in the six months preceding the survey collected with the s1_household form; Age of people reported to have died in surveyed households in the six months preceding the survey collected with the s1_household form; Status of shelters where no individual was present on repeat visits, according to their neighbours collected with the s4_missing_houses form; Non-contact related individual-level risk factors collected with the s2_contacts form; Contact-related information from contactors (participants in the contact survey) collected with the s2_contacts form; Information about contactees reported by contactors collected with the s2_contacts form; Anthropometric assessments of children aged 6 to 59 months old, who were included in the contact survey collected with the s3_anthropometry form and; Combined (aggregated) datasets of contact, participant, nutrition, and household level data, used for logistic regression analysis. Social contact data for internally displaced people (IDP) living in Digaale IDP camp in Somaliland has been uploaded to Zenodo. Participants reported all their direct contacts in the 24 hours preceding the survey. This survey was conducted in 2019. Data is formatted to be used in the socialmixr package in R

Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland. Data and analyses.

Data and code accompanying the preprint "Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland"

Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland. Data and analyses.

Data and code accompanying the preprint "Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland"