COVID-19: How to Include Marginalized and Vulnerable People in Risk Communication and Community Engagement
April 15, 2020

COVID-19: How to Include Marginalized and Vulnerable People in Risk Communication and Community Engagement

Why include a protection, gender, and inclusion lens in risk communication and community engagement?


Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies.

Organizations:

World Health Organization (WHO) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

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