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Supported by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Covid Collective is based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The Collective brings together the expertise of, UK and Southern based research partner organisations and offers a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.
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“My Business Challenges are Far Worse Right Now, I Will go for Covid-19 Vaccine Later”: Post-pandemic Lessons from the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout in Informal Settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Nairobi
(2024-04)This paper focuses on the immediate post-pandemic period (2021–23) to discuss how the Covid vaccination rollout offers insights into the pandemic’s longer-term socioeconomic, health and political consequences for marginalised ... -
African Cities in the Wake of Covid-19: Tracing Multiple Inequalities, Official Responses and Grassroots Strategies in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Nairobi
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2024-04)Covid-19’s acute phase has now subsided, but its lasting socioeconomic, health and political consequences remain poorly understood, especially in African cities. This paper discusses the pandemic’s impacts and grassroots ... -
Data Portraits: Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout in Informal Settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-10)The joint issues of access to, and uptake of, Covid-19 vaccines are still very much alive in the global South. While the pandemic’s health effects for low‑income urban communities have not been insignificant, the results ... -
The Politics of Covid Responses in African Cities: Lilongwe
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-08)This paper analyses the politics of the Covid-19 response in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital city. It describes public policy measures centred around treatment, prevention and mitigation of the pandemic, and then explains how ... -
Redefining Urban Social Protection Programmes in Malawi: Lessons from the Covid-19 Emergency Urban Cash Intervention (CUCI)
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2023-09)As part of the National Covid-19 Preparedness and Response Plan, the government of Malawi initiated an urban social protection programme. The Covid-19 Emergency Urban Cash Intervention (CUCI) targeted poor and vulnerable ... -
Informal Settlement Communities as First Responders to Disasters: Covid-19 Pandemic Experiences in Harare
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2023-09)The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in cities, with informal settlements being the hardest hit. Relief efforts from governments, NGOs and the private sector have been provided, both locally and ... -
Nairobi in the Wake of Covid-19: Civil Society Organisations Key to Building Resilient Capacities
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2023-08)While Covid-19’s acute phase has now subsided, Nairobi and Kenyan society generally are facing its longer-term socioeconomic, health and political consequences. These impacts remain poorly understood, especially for ... -
Covid-19 Effects and Responses in Kampala’s Informal Sector: Promises for Social Justice and Resilient Livelihoods in the Face of Multiple Crises
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2023-06)Kampala continues to face multiple socioeconomic challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. The pandemic has had far-reaching implications for urban informal workers and residents. They continue to ... -
Towards a Comparative Understanding of Community-Led and Collaborative Responses to Covid-19 in Mogadishu
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)Covid-19 has inflicted a major health toll while heightening socioeconomic inequalities, and its impacts are still reverberating across the global South. For low-income urban residents in the global South, measures intended ... -
Towards a Comparative Understanding of Community-Led and Collaborative Responses to Covid-19 in Kampala
(African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)Covid-19 has inflicted a major health toll while heightening socioeconomic inequalities, and its impacts are still reverberating across the global South. For low-income urban residents in the global South, measures intended ... -
Covid Collective Learning Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-03)This report provides an overview the Covid Collective research platform, how it was operationalised, and the learning which emerged from the three-year programme. The foundation of the Covid Collective’s theory of change ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Social Protection and Different Forms of Social Assistance
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The Covid-19 pandemic led to widespread disruption of livelihoods and loss of income and exposed and reinforced existing inequalities (Rohwerder 2020). In response, almost all countries implemented some form of social ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Pandemic Preparedness
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)It is likely the next pandemic will come within a decade, so preparedness is of vital importance. Much has been learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and from this the world can limit pandemic risks and learn to respond ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Managing Multiple, Intersecting Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The world is facing the prospect of more frequent complex, uncertain, and harmful compound shocks, which are happening simultaneously or in rapid succession (Martinez-Diaz and Sidner 2021). Crises can come in many forms. ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Informality and the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)People living in poor and densely populated informal settlements struggled due to a lack of space, water, resources, and services, and were reliant on informal work which was severely affected by Covid-19 containment ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Decision-Making, Accountability and Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The unpredictable, fast-moving and high-risk decision-making environment during the Covid-19 pandemic challenged policymakers around the globe. The shortcomings of global and national collective action and ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Equity, Inclusion and Exclusion of Those Most Effected by the Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and worsened already existing inequalities, increased extreme poverty and food insecurity, led to human rights violations, and negatively affected progress towards the achievement ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Data, Knowledge and Information
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)Co-production [of knowledge] is a sharing of power, with stakeholders and researchers working together to develop the agenda, design and implement the research, and interpret, disseminate, and implement the ... -
Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic in Myanmar: Stories of Children's Fights and Hopes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)This collection of children's stories was created as part of a research project titled "The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Myanmar", which was conducted by Terre des hommes (Tdh) and the ... -
Towards Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-01)The Covid-19 pandemic has re-emphasised the need to ensure equitable access to safe, effective and affordable health services. The very rapid shift to the use of smartphone apps and telephone consultations (telemedicine) ...
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