Covid Collective: Recent submissions
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Covid-19 Response in Nairobi: A Political Settlements Approach
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
How Did Covid-19 Affect Food and Nutrition Security of Migrant Workers in Northern Vietnam?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-06-21)This study explored how measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in Vietnam affected the livelihoods and food and nutrition security of internal migrant workers. While Vietnam has made impressive progress ... -
Migrating Perils: Covid-19 Restrictions Disparage Cambodian Migrant Workers, Blurring Legal Status Amid Thai Border Closures
(Analyzing Development Issues Centre, 2022-04)Cambodian migrant workers continue to face challenges as many live in rural areas with high poverty rates, insufficient job opportunities, low crop yields, and high levels of household indebtedness. These push factors force ... -
Exploring the Nexus of Covid-19, Precarious Migration and Child Labour on the Cambodian-Thai Border
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-06)This report shares findings from qualitative research on the impacts of Covid-19 on Cambodian migrant workers in four sites along the Cambodia-Thai border. Government restrictions in Thailand and the border closure in ... -
Doing More With Less COVID-19 Relief by Community Networks in Southeast Asia
(IIED, 2022-05)This paper describes an action-research study in which experienced community networks in four Southeast Asian countries collectively reflected on, compared and documented the innovative work they were doing on the ... -
Scaling Up Community-led COVID-19 Responses: Five Key Lessons
(IIED, 2022-05)Community-led responses to the COVID-19 pandemic can be much more than just temporary relief efforts. Experienced networks and federations of the urban poor are valuable development partners and can deliver scalable recovery ... -
Amplifying Grassroots COVID-19 Responses in Kenya
(IIED, 2022-05)The pandemic has led to rising precarity and has exacerbated several human rights violations in Nairobi’s informal settlements, including unemployment, food insecurity, sexual and gender-based violence, police brutality ...
