Identification

Title

Policy and community interviews on trypanosomiasis in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe (2012 - 2013)

Abstract

This resource contains anonymised interviews with community members in Chundu Ward, Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe, conducted to further our understanding of how the local community interacts with tsetse. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants in 2012 to 2013 to investigate livelihood strategies including hunting, livestock keeping and cultivation, and how they influenced the risk of contracting trypanosomiasis. Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) occurs sporadically within the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe and is transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans and Glossina pallidipes). African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) is more prevalent and places significant constraints on livestock keeping. Approaches taken by local people to control or manage the disease were also investigated during the interviews. This research was part of a wider research project, the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC) and these interviews contributed to this consortium. The research was funded by NERC project no NE/J000701/1 with support from the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f712c52f-1ce9-4603-bc33-685221a14f50

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/f712c52f-1ce9-4603-bc33-685221a14f50.zip

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description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/f712c52f-1ce9-4603-bc33-685221a14f50

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f712c52f-1ce9-4603-bc33-685221a14f50

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

farming

health

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Wikidata

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-10-29

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium

DDDAC

Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme

ESPA

livelihoods

trypanosomiasis

Wildlife

Tsetse

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

29.359

East bounding longitude

30.009

North bounding latitude

-16.19

South bounding latitude

-16.701

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2012-06-15

End position

2013-06-15

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-06-14

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

After initial community meetings to identify tsetse affected areas, candidates for key informant interviews were selected on the basis of their knowledge of the subject. The interviewees included indigenous people, mainly Korekore, and migrants from other parts of the country who are settled in the study area. Initial contacts were made with these candidates in 2012. During these meetings informed consent was sought for interviews and the date for actual interviewing was agreed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in person between 2012 and 2013 and recorded with prior consent. The interviews were conducted by experienced researchers from the University of Zimbabwe, assisted by a research assistant. The audio recordings were processed into text transcripts in Microsoft Word and stored securely at the University of Zimbabwe. To meet the requirements of the Environmental Information Data Centre the Microsoft Word document was anonymised and converted into Rich Text Format (rtf).

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Mangwanya, L., Dzingirai, V. (2017). Policy and community interviews on trypanosomiasis in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe (2012 - 2013). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f712c52f-1ce9-4603-bc33-685221a14f50

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-13T14:34:14

Metadata language

eng