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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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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) ... -
People’s Agenda for Pandemic Preparedness
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-24)In May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency. Now that the world is in this new period of living with the coronavirus, it is an important time to gather knowledge ... -
Pandemic Preparedness
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-17)This rapid literature review aims to provide initial insights into emerging lessons on pandemic preparedness in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. It pays special attention to research generated by the Covid Collective ... -
Pandemic Preparedness for the Real World: Why We Must Invest in Equitable, Ethical and Effective Approaches to Help Prepare for the Next Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-03-08)The cost of the Covid-19 pandemic remains unknown. Lives directly lost to the disease continue to mount, while related health, livelihood and wellbeing impacts are still being felt, and the wider ramifications across ... -
Covid Collective: Social Science Research for Covid-19 Action
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)In early 2020, the world became aware of a new global threat. Covid-19 spread rapidly, upending the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. With support from the Research and Evidence Division of the UK’s Foreign, ... -
Equitable Access and Public Attitudes to Vaccination for Internal Migrants in Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-16)This mixed methods participatory study explores equity and fairness in access to Vietnam’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, when the Covid-19 vaccine was scarce, with a focus on internal migrant workers. At the beginning ... -
Managing Multiple Crises: Lessons from Covid-19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-17)The World is facing numerous, overlapping crises with the war in Ukraine exacerbating a global cost-of-living crisis, coupled with the lingering effects of Covid-19 and ongoing climate change impacts. After nearly three ... -
Community-led Innovations and Actions in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-09-26)Community engagement and community-led approaches have been considered a fundamental component of past pandemics, such as Ebola, and the same has been observed in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, especially for ...
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