Recent Submissions

  • Towards Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage 

    Bloom, Gerald; Balasubramaniam, Priya; Marin, Anabel; Nelson, Erica; Quak, Evert-jan; Husain, Lewis; Barker, Tom (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) ...
  • Equitable Access and Public Attitudes to Vaccination for Internal Migrants in Vietnam 

    Hoang, Tu-Anh; Oosterhoff, Pauline; Le, Lan Anh; Dinh, Phuong Nga (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 

    Price, Roz (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 ...
  • Voices From the Margins Building Evidence for Inclusive Policy Responses to Covid 19 in Bangladesh 

    Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Samadder, Mrinmoy; Akter, Nahida; Khayum, Hossain Mohammed Omar; Hassan, Ahmed Shafquat (Centre for Peace and Justice, 2021-06)
    The Covid-19 pandemic is not only posing grave health risks, but is also proving to be a global humanitarian crisis, the effects of which are expected to run deep and last long. However, it is fair to say that we are all ...
  • Combined Survey Completion Report on Survey Implementation Process: Voices from the Margins and Inclusive Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic 

    Samadder, Mrinmoy; Khayum, Hossain Mohammed Omar; Akter, Nahida (Centre for Peace and Justice 2022, 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 relief, ...
  • The Political Economy of the Landscape of Trade Unions in Bangladesh: The Case of RMG Sector 

    Hassan, Mirza M.; Aziz, Syeda Salina; Rahemin, Raeesa; Khan, Insiya; Hoque, Rafsanul (BRAC Institute of Governance & Development, 2022)
    The paper explores the political economy landscape of trade unionism in Bangladesh. The focus is on the Ready-Made Garments (RMG) sector, where trade unions (TU) are highly salient and relatively more operational because ...
  • Pulling the Pieces Together: Health and community actors as levers of local response in Taiz and Hadhramaut, Yemen 

    Wilson, Robert; al-Hamdani, Raiman (PeaceRep, 2022-05-26)
    This study builds on our collaboration with Yemen Policy Center and their earlier study of state community relations and the enforcement of Covid-19 measures by security officials in Taiz during early stages of the ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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, ...
  • Doing More With Less COVID-19 Relief by Community Networks in Southeast Asia 

    Kerr, Thomas (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 

    Kerr, Thomas; Tacoli, Cecilia; Landesman, Tucker (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 

    Kimari, Wangui; Kimani, Joseph; Otieno, Rodgers; Sverdlik, Alice; Waithaka, Jackie (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 ...
  • Report on Survey Implementation Process: Voices from the Margins and Inclusive Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic 

    Samadder, Mrinmoy; Akter, Nahida; Mohammed Omar Khayum, Hossain; Shafquat Hassan, Ahmed (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 ...
  • Covid-19: Shaping the Nexus between State-Business Relations and Global Value Chains: The Case of Horticulture in Kenya 

    Thorpe, Jodie; Odame, Hannington; Quak, Evert-jan; Ayele, Seife (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 ...
  • Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic 

    Anand, Abhishek; Sandefur, Justin; Subramanian, Arvind (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 ...
  • Governing COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Realities and Reflections to Build Forward Better 

    Hassan, Mirza; Hossain, Naomi; Islam, Sirajul; Hoque, Rafsanul; Khan, Insiya; Salina Aziz, Syeda; Nahreen, Avia; Ul Hoque, Mahan; Osmani, S.R.; Siddiquee, M.S.H.; Sultan, Maheen; Jahan Antara, Iffat; Zaman, Shahaduz; Hossain, Faruq; Matin, Imran (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 

    Hassan, Mirza; Hossain, Naomi; Islam, Sirajul; Hoque, Rafsanul; Khan, Insiya; Salina Aziz, Syeda; Nahreen, Avia; Ul Hoque, Mahan; Osmani, S. R.; Siddiquee, M. S. H.; Sultan, Maheen; Jahan Antara, Iffat; Zaman, Shahaduz; Hossain, Faruq; Matin, Imran (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 ...
  • Development Finance for Socioeconomic Programming in Response to Covid-19 

    Lenhardt, Amanda (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 ...
  • Tracking the Scale and Speed of the World Bank’s COVID Response: April 2021 Update 

    Morris, Scott; Sandefur, Justin; Yang, George (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 ...

View more