Doing More With Less COVID-19 Relief by Community Networks in Southeast Asia
Abstract
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 ground during
the COVID-19 crisis. The study showed how these networks
planned their COVID-19 interventions strategically and used the
urgency of the crisis to strengthen and expand their people-driven
support systems, tackle the structural causes of poverty, and
show elements of a more humane, equitable and environmentally
sustainable city development model while addressing immediate
COVID-19 needs in the communities.