Covid Collective: Recent submissions
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Governing COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Realities and Reflections to Build Forward Better
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-07)COVID-19 has been an unprecedented stress test of health, social, economic, and political systems worldwide.i The State of Governance in Bangladesh 2020– 2021 report documents and analyzes how COVID-19 has been governed ... -
Governing COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Realities and Reflections to Build Forward Better
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-07-27)As Bangladesh celebrates its 50th year of independence in 2021, it also faces an unprecedented health, social, and economic crisis in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. A wave of the highly transmissible and deadly Delta ... -
Pandemic Cleavages: Covid-19 and the South Sudanese Peace Process
(Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), 2021-07)About: Roughly 15 months into the Covid-19 pandemic, it now becomes possible to analyse the impact the pandemic shock had on peace processes globally and assess its mid- and long-term consequences. This briefing investigates ... -
Impact of Vietnam’s Covid-19 Response on Vulnerable Groups
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)Our research shows how Vietnam’s Covid-19 policy response has influenced Vietnamese migrant workers and counter-trafficking work, particularly in border areas. Vietnam is a major labour exporter and is in the top ten ... -
The Impact of Myanmar’s Response to Covid-19 on the Most Vulnerable
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-22)The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption globally. Measures to stop the spread of the virus have been necessary, but their knock-on effects have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable. This briefing ... -
Voices From The Margins Building Evidence For Inclusive Policy Responses To Covid-19 In Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2022)Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ) conducted a three round panel survey in order to draw empirical evidence from the marginalised community on their experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic. The household panel surveys focused ... -
Literature Review to Support a Survey to Understand the Socio-economic, Wellbeing and Human Rights Related Experiences of People with Disabilities During Covid-19 Lockdown in South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)COVID-19 pandemic and associated national responses have had ramifications for societies around the world, including South Africa. The marginalisation of people with disabilities is well documented in pre-COVID times, and ... -
Policy and Programme Considerations to Address Education Challenges in Malawi Due to Covid-19 Disruptions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-28)On 23 March 2020, the Malawi Government announced the closure of all schools to contain the spread of Covid-19. A gradual re-opening plan was announced and fully implemented in October 2020. Schools were then closed ... -
Covid-19: Understanding the Impact of the Pandemic on Forcibly Displaced Persons
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-24)The Covid-19 pandemic has left no corner of the world untouched. To cite just one figure, 100 million people have been pushed into poverty, according to a recent World Bank study. The two-speed recovery from the pandemic, ... -
Development Finance for Socioeconomic Programming in Response to Covid-19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)The Covid-19 crisis led multilateral and bilateral donors to revise their funding strategies to respond to the crisis and to adapt existing programming to the new context it created. This resulted in changes to overall ... -
Pandemic Pauses: Understanding Ceasefires in a Time of Covid-19
(Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), 2021)On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization characterized the rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus known as Covid-19 as a pandemic.1 Shortly after, on 23 March 2020, the UN Secretary General (UNSG) Antonio ... -
Zambia Covid-19 Poverty Monitor April 2021
(2021-04)Loss of income from businesses: Zambia went into a partial lockdown when it recorded the first cases of Covid-19 in March 2020. Some micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) such as bars, cinemas, lodges, hotels, ... -
Philippines Covid-19 Poverty Monitor April 2021
(Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2021)Access to health services: Many respondents are avoiding public health services due to the misconception that common flu symptoms will be diagnosed as Covid-19 and require quarantine in a facility. Testing is also prohibitively ... -
The Social Economic Impacts of Covid-19 in Informal Urban Settlements
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-27)The social economic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in informal urban settlements are widely discussed in the literature, as are the risk factors for particular social and economic groups in these areas. However, government ... -
Ethiopia Covid-19 Poverty Monitor: April 2021
(Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2021-04-06)CPAN Covid-19 Poverty Monitor bulletins are compiled using a combination of original qualitative data collection from a small number of affected people in each country, interviews with local leaders and community development ... -
Tracking the Scale and Speed of the World Bank’s COVID Response: April 2021 Update
(Center for Global Development, 2021-04-05)Last year at this time, the World Bank announced its intention to provide $104 billion in financing to developing country governments to help them respond to the COVID-19 crisis. We took stock of those efforts seven months ... -
Regional Responses to COVID-19: The Role of Intergovernmental Organisations in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East
(Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), 2021)There have been responses to the COVID-19 pandemic across multiple levels of governance from very local, community-based initiatives to international coordination by the WHO. While there has been significant analysis of ... -
"Like Birds in Cages" Community Definitions and Concepts of Home, Rights, Justice, and Citizenship in Rohingya Camps
(Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), 2021-06)A participatory action research project was undertaken from November 2020 to February 2021 in which three Rohingya researchers asked 33 of their fellow Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh camps to share ... -
An Opportunity in Crisis? Covid-19 and State-community Relations in Taiz
(Yemen Policy Center, 2021-04)When many parts of the world began to shut down public life to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020, observers hoped that Yemen was better placed to avoid the impact of the pandemic due to the near-shut ... -
Covid-19: Tool of Conflict or Opportunity for Local Peace in Northwest Syria?
(Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh, 2021-06)Evidence shows that local communities played a central role in mitigating the impact of Covid-19, helping to bridge the governance gap in northwest Syria. As Covid-19 was spreading across the world in the early months ...
