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    • COVID-19 and Bangladesh Macroeconomic Impact and Policy Choices 

      Bhattacharya, Debapriya; Islam Khan, Towfiqul; Hossain Rabbi, Md Mursalin (Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), 2021-12-26)
      Bangladesh, like most of the countries in the world, had to restrict mobility and economic activities to tackle the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Indeed, the pandemic has been exerting pressure on the economy through both ...
    • Building Back Better after the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Jaramillo, Miguel; Escobar, Bruno (Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), 2021)
      In this policy-oriented paper, we provide a pre- and post-pandemic socioeconomic analysis of Peru, along with a financially sustainable five-year Building Back Better recovery plan, which emphasizes the urgency of ...
    • Shaping the Macroeconomy of Low- and Middle-income Countries in Response to Covid-19 

      Raga, Sherillyn; Willem te Velde, Dirk (ODI, 2022-03)
      There is heterogeneity in the magnitude of the pandemic’s shortterm impact across the five low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs) that are the focus of this synthesis paper: Bangladesh, Kenya, Peru, Sri Lanka and ...
    • Why Covid-19 Recovery Must be Gender-Responsive 

      Esquivel, Valeria; Ogando, Ana Carolina; Ismail, Ghida; Valdivia, Marcela; Achyut, Pranita; Pakade, Nomancotsho; Lankoandé, Gountiéni D.; Heffernan, Ian (Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03)
      The Covid-19 crisis is different from previous crises and has hit women and gender minority communities hardest. The studies included in this Research for Policy and Practice Report supported by the Covid-19 Responses for ...
    • Vacunación contra COVID-19 en América Latina. Gobernanza colaborativa en contextos asimétricos 

      Lara, Ignacio; Perini, Antonella; Cyr, Jennifer (Colabora.Lat, 2022-01-05)
      Este documento tiene como objetivo analizar el proceso de gobernanza vinculado a las campañas de vacunación contra el covid-19 en América Latina. Específicamente, busca dilucidar y poner en evidencia los procesos de ...
    • Uganda and COVID-19: Macroeconomic Policy Responses to the Pandemic 

      Okumu, Ibrahim M.; Kavuma, Susan N.; Bogere, George (International Development Research CentreSouth African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), 2021-12-13)
      COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. In Uganda, as of 8 June 2021, there have been 53 964 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 383 deaths, while 768 434 vaccines have been ...
    • Seguridad alimentaria en tiempos del COVID-19: resultados de la encuesta de seguridad alimentaria y alimentación en los territorios ecuatorianos de Guayas y Los Ríos 

      Castillo, María José (RIMISP, 2021-12)
      El RIMISP, a través del proyecto Siembra Desarrollo1, busca comprender el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 sobre la seguridad alimentaria, los sistemas agroalimentarios y la agricultura familiar en territorios seleccionados ...
    • Proceeding of Project Inception Webinar: COYOQA Project 

      OSSREA (2021-03)
      The COVID-19 crisis has severely disrupted youth livelihoods, access to education, employment and participation in governance processes, decision-making and public life. It is envisaged that the long-term impact of the ...
    • Innovative Civic Initiatives by Young People to Strengthen Their Role in Post-COVID-19 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the resilience of national education systems, economies and job markets, highlighting the digital divide, income inequality, and workforce fragility around the world. In Africa, the virus ...
    • Kenya Profile Report: COYOQA Project 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021)
      On December 31st 2019, the Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, China, with an unknown cause. The mystery disease was first referred to as 2019-nCoV and then named ...
    • COVID 19 Pandemic in Uganda 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021)
      The youth question in Uganda cannot be more pronounced than the recently concluded elections of 2021. 80 percent of the Ugandan population is 30 years and below (UBOS 2017). Also, 70 percent of the Uganda voting population ...
    • Uganda Inception Web Seminar Report 

      Ssempebwa, Jude (OSSREA, 2021-03-01)
      Co-organized by myself, Mr. Alemu Tesfaye (based at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa [OSSREA]) and Ms. Anne Osamba (based in Kenya), the seminar was held between 10:10am and ...
    • COYOQA Inception Webinar 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021-02)
      The webinar organized by the OSSREA Kenyan Chapter with the help of Ms. Ann Maua was designed to create awareness on the Covid- 19 and the Youth Question in Africa (COYOQA) project that is ongoing since September 2020 to ...
    • Ethiopian Baseline Report: Covid-19 and The Youth Question in Africa: Response, Impacts and Prevention Measures in the IGAD Region 

      Melkamsera, A.; Fasika, G.; Mukuna, T.E.; Alemu, S.T. (OSSREA, 2021-07)
      The emergence of COVID-19, which has metamorphosed from a small outbreak to a global pandemic and a public health emergency of international concern, has resulted huge socioeconomic impacts on poor countries like Ethiopia. ...
    • Kenyan Baseline Report: Covid-19 and The Youth Question in Africa: Response, Impacts and Prevention Measures in the IGAD Region 

      Barasa, L.P.; Maloba, B.A.; Mukuna, T.E.; Alemu, S.T. (OSSREA, 2021-09)
      Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) in collaboration with CEWARN-IGAD, Makerere University (Uganda), OSSREA Kenya Chapter and CCRDA (Ethiopia) were funded by IDRC-Canada to ...
    • Sociology of the “Margin” Amid the Coronavirus 

      Hanin, Maher (Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), 2020-04-13)
      Humanity has never faced its tragic reality as it is the case these days. This time, the enemy is not a world war with its frightful casualties, economic and financial crises with their dreadful legacies, nor it is a ...
    • The COVID-19 Outbreak in Tunisia: Politics, Policies, and Public Dissent 

      Ghannouchi, Cyrine (Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), 2021-07-06)
      This paper reviews state and non-state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Tunisia from March 2020 to March 2021. It offers a context-based narrative of the country’s key political and socio-economic features throughout ...
    • COVID-19 Pandemic in Ethiopia: Literature Review 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021)
      Overview of economic, political and educational impacts of Covid-19 in Ethiopia.
    • COVID-19 and the Youth Question Africa: Kenya Concept Note 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021)
      The COVID-19 crisis has severely disrupted youth livelihoods, access to education, employment and participation in governance processes, decision-making and public life. It is envisaged that the long-term impact of the ...
    • Kenya INDEPTH Report 

      OSSREA (OSSREA, 2021)
      Report on Covid-19 in Kenya, includes chapters on: Community Engagements and Action Towards Covid-19 Response in Kenya; Empirical Researches and Studies Conducted on Covid-19 in Kenya; Stakeholders and Partnership Levels ...