Covid Collective: Recent submissions

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    • Leaving No One Behind in Digital Delivery of Public Services: The Case of Online Business Registration in Tanzania 

      Mwighusa, Dennis; Daniel, Lanta; Diyamett, Bitrina (Southern Voice, 2022-06)
      This study uses the case of online business registration to provide insights into how increased digitalisation in service delivery has impacted women in Tanzania. It analyses the use of ORS, the online registration ...

    • Digitalisation of Secondary School Education in Delhi During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Does Gender Factor in? 

      Kundu, Protiva; Ambast, Shruti (Southern Voice, 2022-06)
      This study presents a qualitative analysis of the public provision of secondary education in India and how it was transformed by the use of digital technologies during the COVID-19 crisis. We question whether this shift ...

    • Gender Gaps in Peru: The Effects of Rapid Digitalisation on Tertiary-level Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Burneo, José; Barrantes, Roxana; Duffó, Danna (Southern Voice, 2022-06)
      In Peru, the transition of public education from in-person schooling to online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges for students, teachers, and state officials. This study explores the difficulties ...

    • Zimbabwe Covid-19 Poverty Monitor 

      Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2022-05)
      By early 2022 the lockdown in Zimbabwe eased as the threat of Covid-19 declined, with the situation returning to a ‘new normal’. This brought improved well-being for many. The impact of the lockdowns on people’s access ...

    • India Covid-19 Poverty Monitor 

      Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2022-01)
      The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown and containment measures triggered widespread economic insecurity across India. More than 80% of the households in the Delhi National Capital Region [NCR] suffered some ...

    • Understanding Community-led and Collaborative Responses to Covid-19 in Nairobi 

      Sverdlik, Alice; Ernstson, Henrik; Wairutu, Jane; Waithaka, Jackie (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)
      Grassroots and civil society groups in Nairobi significantly contributed to raising awareness about Covid-19 by using several creative strategies that can usefully complement official risk communication strategies. ...

    • Covid-19 Response in Nairobi: A Political Settlements Approach 

      Klopp, Jacqueline; Wekesa, Eliud; Ziraba, Abdhalah (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)
      This paper analyses the response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Nairobi, including measures to treat, prevent and mitigate the impact of the pandemic. It also explores the dynamics among policy actors or the “Covid policy ...

    • Rethinking Governance – Insights from Syria during Covid-19 

      Beaujouan, Juline; El hafi, Abdulah; Ghreiz, Eyas; Odat, Ayham (Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), University of Edinburgh, 2022-03)
      This report builds on a previous study led by Dr. Juline Beaujouan at the University of Edinburgh, assisted by two of her colleagues – Abdallah El hafi and Eyas Ghreiz – on the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on local peace ...

    • Promises and Perils of Regional Response to Covid-19 in Asia 

      Adhikari, Monalisa (Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), 2022)
      ‘Crises’--financial crash, pandemics, political conflicts, and natural disasters—have been recognised for providing stimulus for institutional strengthening of regional organisations (Ogbonnaya, 2013; Vinokurov and Libman, ...

    • Access to Covid-19 Vaccines and Concerns of Returnee Migrant Workers in Lao PDR During the Covid-19 Pandemic 

      Sychareun, Vanphanom; Nouanthong, Phonethipsavanh; Thongmyxay, Souksamone; Phimmavong, Chandavieng; Phommavongsa, Phouthong; Somphet, Vathsana; Durham, Jo; Oosterhoff, Pauline (Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-07)
      In Lao PDR (Lao People’s Democratic Republic), out-migration, often to neighbouring Thailand, is an important livelihood pathway for workers. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, had a significant impact on these international ...

    • Mass Tree Planting: Prospects for a Green Legacy in Ethiopia 

      Fikreyesus, Daniel; Gizaw, Solomon; Mayers, James; Barrett, Sam (IIED, 2022-06)
      Ethiopia’s forests have been declining due to agricultural conversion, increased wood extraction for fuel and construction, and livestock over-grazing. The country has several high-profile tree-planting programmes, ...

    • Participation and Exclusion in Mega Tree-planting Projects: A Case Study of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme, Pakistan 

      Ashraf, Usman (IIED, 2022-06)
      Large-scale tree planting programmes have become politically attractive. They are claimed to be vital in tackling climate change and to provide big social and environmental benefits. This is a study of one such ...

    • Understanding the Politics of Covid-19 in Kampala, Nairobi and Mogadishu: A Political Settlements Approach 

      Bukenya, Badru; Kelsall, Tim; Klopp, Jacqueline; Mukwaya, Paul; Oyana, Tonny; Wekesa, Eliud; Ziraba, Abdhalah (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-05)
      All three of our cities are located in Eastern Africa, Nairobi being the largest of the three, with an estimated population of 4.34 million in 2019. Kampala has an estimated 1.75 million inhabitants, while estimates ...

    • Politics and Covid-19 in Kampala 

      Bukenya, Badru; Mukwaya, Paul; Oyana, Tonny (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-05)
      As the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the globe in early 2020, the response in the Ugandan capital of Kampala was driven by Kampala City’s Covid-19 Task Force. This is the mirror image of the NTF – the official ...

    • Towards a Comparative Understanding of Community-led and Collaborative Responses to Covid-19 in Kampala, Mogadishu and Nairobi 

      Sverdlik, Alice; Ernstson, Henrik; Mukwaya, Paul; Wairutu, Jane; Waithaka, Jackie (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)
      In this paper, we explore the Covid-19 pandemic’s evolving impacts and wide-ranging local initiatives in Mogadishu, Kampala, and Nairobi. Low-income residents often experienced Covid-19 less as a health crisis (especially ...

    • “Paradox” of Korail Slum During COVID-19: Ethnography of Governance from Below 

      Zaman, Shahaduz; Hossain, Faruq; Ahmed, Shamael; Matin, Imran (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-01-18)
      Overcrowding and resource constraints have made physical distancing and self-quarantining nearly impossible in the urban slums of Bangladesh during COVID-19, increasing the risk of a rapid spread of the virus. As a result, ...

    • The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Small and Medium Enterprises in Bangladesh 

      Islam, Asadul; Rahman, Atiya; Nisat, Rafia (BRAC University, 2022-03-31)
      Like other economic players, the novel pandemic severely hit small businesses—the larger source of growth and employment but also the most vulnerable sector—by disrupting national and international business networks, ...

    • The Impact of Covid-19 Response Policies on Vulnerable Migrant Workers and Victims of Trafficking in Cambodia 

      Keo, Bunthea; Abdelhamid, Amira; Kasper, Eric (Institute of Development Studies, 2022-06-27)
      To date, the Government of Cambodia has issued at least 2,216 policies in response to Covid-19. These have largely been directed at limiting the spread of the Covid-19 within Cambodia, with clear attempts to mitigate the ...

    • Ethnography of Community Governance: A Case of COVID-19 Response of an Urban Slum in Bangladesh 

      Zaman, Shahaduz; Hossain, Faruq; Matin, Imran (Oxford University Press, 2022-03-17)
      Although COVID-19 cases and deaths in different clusters of Bangladesh were increasing rapidly for most of the year 2020, surprisingly very few cases were reported in the urban slums, identified as the potential hotspots ...

    • Slums During COVID-19: Exploring the Unlocked Paradoxes 

      Zaman, Shahaduz; Hossain, Faruq; Ahmed, Shamael; Matin, Imran (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-04-13)
      The study took an ethnographic approach, which relied on researchers participating in the study setting, to document the patterns of social interaction and the perspectives of participants and to understand the findings ...