Introduction
REfugees in Africa ClusTer (REACT) project is a joint initiative between the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community, KEMRI, Makerere School of Public Health (MakSPH), University College London (UCL), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and the University of York, aimed at supporting national capacity-strengthening and research in gender-responsive resource allocation, health care organisation and policy decision-making for more efficient and equitable responses to refugee and host communities health needs in east, central and southern Africa.
The project is structured around three work packages on health systems governance, health economics, and gender, which jointly investigate four distinct research themes. REACT will generate theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions which will benefit academics from a broad range of disciplines researching and teaching forced migration, humanitarian response, gender, public health and health systems. The knowledge generated through this initiative will be shared thorough briefs, reports, papers, presentations and workshops.
Report objectives
This report will provide an introductory background to REACT. The specific objectives are to:
- Describe the extent and characteristics of the refugee crisis worldwide;
- Understand the nature of the refugee crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa;
- Provide an overview of the guidance provided by international organisations on refugee health;
- Summarise findings from a scoping review on health economics and financing research in refugee settings;
- Identify priority areas for health economics and financing research.
Published: December 2020