{"id":278704,"date":"2019-06-10T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEJOiBDvY6mUabNT0uPKyZ1gqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:09","slug":"researchers-tested-phone-based-tracking-of-separated-children-in-drought-hit-northern-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278704","title":{"rendered":"Researchers tested phone-based tracking of separated children in drought-hit northern Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 June 2019 BMC International Health and Human Rights, carried on ReliefWeb, published a study on community-based surveillance of unaccompanied and separated children in a drought-affected district of northern Ethiopia, led by Matthew MacFarlane and colleagues.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Researchers tested phone-based tracking of separated children in drought-hit northern Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>The team said no field-tested method had tracked how separation changes during a long crisis, so they set up a mobile-phone surveillance system with local monitors to record ongoing separations and reunifications that ordinary surveys can miss.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as humanitarian and child-protection archive, the paper dates an early attempt to measure child separation in real time during Ethiopia\u2019s northern drought response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/community-based-surveillance-unaccompanied-and-separated-children-drought-affected\">ReliefWeb \/ BMC<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community-based surveillance of unaccompanied and separated children in drought-affected northern Ethiopia &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebEnglish Analysis on Ethiopia about Protection and Human Rights, Children and Drought; published on 10 Jun 2019 by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ave","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755128,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278704\/revisions\/755128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}