Covid Collective: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Impact of Covid-19 Response Policies on Select Vulnerable Groups in Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-05)Despite the significant impact of the pandemic’s fourth wave, Vietnam’s overall strategy was seen as well planned with one of the lowest infection rates globally in 2020–2021. In June 2019, an estimated 540,000 Vietnamese ... -
Report on Survey Implementation Process: Voices from the Margins and Inclusive Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
(BRAC University, 2022-03)The Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), Brac University is currently implementing a research project to create an information data-loop to inform and influence public policies and state responses on COVID-19 related ... -
Synthesis of Work by the Covid Collective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03)Overview: This report looked across Covid Collective outputs and grouped findings into three sections. Section 2) Pandemic response; Section 3) Increased marginalisation; and Section 4) Emergent outcomes. Section 4 describes ... -
Covid-19: Shaping the Nexus between State-Business Relations and Global Value Chains: The Case of Horticulture in Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-04-22)The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on global value chains has been topical of late, yet little work has been done to explore how interactions between value chain businesses and state actors, which we refer to as the ... -
The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Myanmar
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-04-21)In Myanmar, almost one in ten children are engaged in child labour and more than half of the working children are doing hazardous work. The Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it have far-reaching social and economic ... -
Cambodia’s Covid-19 Response and Migrant Workers
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-04)As in many Southeast Asian countries, the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and policies to limit its spread greatly disrupted Cambodia’s economy. Workers in Cambodia overwhelmingly operate in the informal sector and remittances ... -
Livelihood Transitions of Women Workers During COVID-19: The Case of Domestic Workers in Dhaka
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-11-15)COVID-19 posed an impossible trade-off between lives and livelihoods across the world, especially for economically vulnerable people with limited or no fallback option. According to the International Labour Organization ... -
Decolonising Knowledge for Development in the Covid-19 Era
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03)This Working Paper seeks to explore current and emerging framings of decolonising knowledge for development. It does this with the intent of helping to better understand the importance of diverse voices, knowledges, and ... -
Covid-19: Tool of Conflict or Opportunity for Local Peace in Northwest Syria?
(Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), 2021-07)Despite early mitigation measures and a proactive stance, opposition governance institutions used the Covid-19 crisis as a political tool at the expense of relief. The opposition Syrian Interim government in northern ... -
Disability, a Priority Area for Health Research in South Africa: an Analysis of the Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-10-25)Purpose: Disabilities are increasing globally, which is attributed to the overall ageing of populations in affluent countries. This trend may differ in low and middle-income countries. This paper assesses the change over ... -
Livelihood Transitions and Coping With Shocks: Women in the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Sector Coping With COVID-19
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2022-01-03)One of the challenges that have been posed by COVID-19 is the trade-off between lives and livelihoods. The Financial Times once wrote about it as a macro-level issue in an article headed “The Covid-19 conundrum: lives ... -
Livelihood Transitions of Women Workers During COVID-19: The Case of Domestic Workers in Dhaka
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-12-12)The paper draws on primary research into the conditions of domestic workers in Bangladesh and how they coped with the shocks and disruptions associated with COVID-19. We can see our research as a lens to view the lives and ... -
Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Center for Global Development, 2021-07-20)India lacks an authoritative estimate of the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. We report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from the pandemic’s start through June 2021. First, extrapolation ... -
Breathing Space: Vaccination Ceasefires in Armed Conflict
(Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), 2021-09)In March 2020, as people worldwide grappled with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) called for a global ceasefire “to help create corridors for life-saving aid. To open precious ...