Waste management challenges in Freetown’s informal settlements
Published by: Future Health Systems
Waste management has been a challenge in the Freetown municipality of Sierra Leone for a long time, underpinned by the limited capacity...
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Published by: Future Health Systems
Waste management has been a challenge in the Freetown municipality of Sierra Leone for a long time, underpinned by the limited capacity...
Published by: Future Health Systems
Access to water is one of the major challenges faced by residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and informal settlements are no exception...
Deadly diseases with pandemic potential are a global concern, but local people’s understandings of these diseases and their knowledge in preparing for them is often ignored. This research will explore ‘preparedness from below’ by highlighting the importance of local perspectives to disease response which have not been fully recognised and supported in global discourses so far.
Published by: Routledge
This article examines the issue of peace and restraint within ongoing conflicts. While the vast majority of the literature on civil...
Published by: ICTD and IDS
This paper considers how men and women in eastern and northern Sierra Leone interact differently with formal and informal revenue...
Published by: ICTD and IDS
Recent research has cast light on the variety of informal payments and practices that govern the day-to-day interactions between traders...
A ‘right to nutrition’ has been suggested as a normative concept that might increase the impact of nutrition policy and action. This research will start to explore the views of those working for improved nutrition, and their understanding of - or desire for - a right to nutrition approach to address the intractable issue of malnutrition and its social determinants.
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
This article explores the opportunities and conundrums of understanding violence at critical junctures following ruptures in political...