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Beyond the state: The role of traditional leaders in COVID-19

This brief presents the key findings of the report exploring the role of traditional leaders – Paramount Chiefs, Youth Leaders and Mammy Queens – in Sierra Leone in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. While there is much reference to the role of such traditional leaders in pandemic response, there is little written on how this has happened in practice. The brief lays out recommendations to ensure further successes of state collaboration with traditional leaders in future crises.