K4D Supporting the Prosperity Fund for Transformative COVID-19 Recovery

Abstract

The global COVID-19 pandemic endangers progress made on more inclusive and sustainable growth patterns and risks slowing down international trade. Growth patterns are highly uncertain and require context-specific social analysis alongside local stakeholder consultation as a means to understand the changing impacts on poverty and exclusion dynamics. In recognition of this need, The K4D Prosperity Fund COVID-19 Evidence and Learning Initiative supported cross-government learning on the impact of the pandemic within upper-middle income countries (UMIC) and lower-middle income countries (LMIC) while also providing key evidence supporting a transformative strategic focus, aimed at linking short-term adaptations with long-term ambitions, setting the stage to push beyond recovery and the Prosperity Fund’s Build Back Better.