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Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub
COVID-19 brings uncertainties and new precarities for communities and researchers, altering and amplifying relational vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities which emerge from relationships of unequal power and place those less powerful at risk of abuse and violence). Research approaches have changed too,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9125381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35606015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008122 |
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author | Mansaray, Bintu Dean, Laura Tubb, Phil Josyula, Kunhi Lakshmi Okoth, Linet Chumo, Ivy Waritu, Jane Klingel, Andrea Manzoor, Farzana Aktar, Bachera Garimella, Surekha Murthy, Shrutika Tolhurst, Rachel Whittaker, Lana Gray, Linsay Forsyth, Ross Elsey, Helen Waldman, Linda Theobald, Sally |
author_facet | Mansaray, Bintu Dean, Laura Tubb, Phil Josyula, Kunhi Lakshmi Okoth, Linet Chumo, Ivy Waritu, Jane Klingel, Andrea Manzoor, Farzana Aktar, Bachera Garimella, Surekha Murthy, Shrutika Tolhurst, Rachel Whittaker, Lana Gray, Linsay Forsyth, Ross Elsey, Helen Waldman, Linda Theobald, Sally |
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description | COVID-19 brings uncertainties and new precarities for communities and researchers, altering and amplifying relational vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities which emerge from relationships of unequal power and place those less powerful at risk of abuse and violence). Research approaches have changed too, with increasing use of remote data collection methods. These multiple changes necessitate new or adapted safeguarding responses. This practice piece shares practical learnings and resources on safeguarding from the Accountability for Informal Urban Equity hub, which uses participatory action research, aiming to catalyse change in approaches to enhancing accountability and improving the health and well-being of marginalised people living and working in informal urban spaces in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Sierra Leone. We outline three new challenges that emerged in the context of the pandemic (1): exacerbated relational vulnerabilities and dilemmas for researchers in responding to increased reports of different forms of violence coupled with support services that were limited prior to the pandemic becoming barely functional or non-existent in some research sites, (2) the increased use of virtual and remote research methods, with implications for safeguarding and (3) new stress, anxiety and vulnerabilities experienced by researchers. We then outline our learning and recommended action points for addressing emerging challenges, linking practice to the mnemonic ‘the four Rs: recognise, respond, report, refer’. COVID-19 has intensified safeguarding risks. We stress the importance of communities, researchers and co-researchers engaging in dialogue and ongoing discussions of power and positionality, which are important to foster co-learning and co-production of safeguarding processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-91253812022-05-24 Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub Mansaray, Bintu Dean, Laura Tubb, Phil Josyula, Kunhi Lakshmi Okoth, Linet Chumo, Ivy Waritu, Jane Klingel, Andrea Manzoor, Farzana Aktar, Bachera Garimella, Surekha Murthy, Shrutika Tolhurst, Rachel Whittaker, Lana Gray, Linsay Forsyth, Ross Elsey, Helen Waldman, Linda Theobald, Sally BMJ Glob Health Practice COVID-19 brings uncertainties and new precarities for communities and researchers, altering and amplifying relational vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities which emerge from relationships of unequal power and place those less powerful at risk of abuse and violence). Research approaches have changed too, with increasing use of remote data collection methods. These multiple changes necessitate new or adapted safeguarding responses. This practice piece shares practical learnings and resources on safeguarding from the Accountability for Informal Urban Equity hub, which uses participatory action research, aiming to catalyse change in approaches to enhancing accountability and improving the health and well-being of marginalised people living and working in informal urban spaces in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Sierra Leone. We outline three new challenges that emerged in the context of the pandemic (1): exacerbated relational vulnerabilities and dilemmas for researchers in responding to increased reports of different forms of violence coupled with support services that were limited prior to the pandemic becoming barely functional or non-existent in some research sites, (2) the increased use of virtual and remote research methods, with implications for safeguarding and (3) new stress, anxiety and vulnerabilities experienced by researchers. We then outline our learning and recommended action points for addressing emerging challenges, linking practice to the mnemonic ‘the four Rs: recognise, respond, report, refer’. COVID-19 has intensified safeguarding risks. We stress the importance of communities, researchers and co-researchers engaging in dialogue and ongoing discussions of power and positionality, which are important to foster co-learning and co-production of safeguarding processes. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9125381/ /pubmed/35606015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008122 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Practice Mansaray, Bintu Dean, Laura Tubb, Phil Josyula, Kunhi Lakshmi Okoth, Linet Chumo, Ivy Waritu, Jane Klingel, Andrea Manzoor, Farzana Aktar, Bachera Garimella, Surekha Murthy, Shrutika Tolhurst, Rachel Whittaker, Lana Gray, Linsay Forsyth, Ross Elsey, Helen Waldman, Linda Theobald, Sally Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
title | Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
title_full | Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
title_fullStr | Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
title_full_unstemmed | Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
title_short | Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
title_sort | implications of covid-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub |
topic | Practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9125381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35606015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008122 |
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