Social science research
for COVID-19 action
The Covid Collective offers a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.

Managing Multiple Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

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 […]

Covid-19 and poor microfinance clients

Microfinance, a ground-breaking idea for providing access to finance to the poor, was first introduced and developed in Bangladesh in the 1970s. Since then, it has spread all over the […]

Covid Collective project publications

You can access all the papers and articles generated by Covid Collective research projects from our digital repository collection in OpenDocs.

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Our vision is to ensure that evidence that focuses on the social dimensions of the pandemic are made visible as we move from crisis to recovery phase and beyond.
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Read the IDS Bulletin - Pandemic perspectives: Why different voices and views matter

This issue draws on experiences from the social science research projects around the world supported by the Covid Collective and provides concrete examples of how researchers have demonstrated innovation and adaptation in a range of contexts.

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