MEASURING SEPARATION IN EMERGENCIES: Concise Pilot Report Democratic Republic of Congo

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian and Craig Spencer (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Anna Skeels (Save the Children)

This pilot summary document provides a brief summary of the field testing of the community-based surveillance method in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A fuller account of the field testing can be found in the longer document: Pilot Summary Report, Democratic Republic of Congo: Community-Based Surveillance Method by the same authors. The surveillance method was used to monitor new cases of separation in ‘real time’ across ten village sites in the territory of Nyiragongo. The pilot ran for an 11-week period from August to October 2014.

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