Last week COVID CIRCLE (UKCDR) and Covid Collective held a joint webinar exploring the impact of social science research in shaping the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event […]
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Pandemic preparedness and community-led solutions in African cities
Trust, legitimacy and equity. These were highlighted by Paul Mukwaya in his presentation on Covid-19 impacts in Kampala as being key to effective pandemic responses. Others emphasised that community-led responses […]
ربط الجهود: الجهات الفاعلة في مجال الصحة والمجتمع كرافعة للاستجابة المحلية في تعز وحضرموت ، اليمن
اوضح الجزء الأول من هذه الدراسة التي أجراها مركز اليمني للسياسات في ديسمبر ٢٠٢٠ خلال الموجة الأولى للوباء في اليمن، العوامل التي حالت دون قيام المؤسسات الأمنية بدور أكثر فاعلية […]
Pulling the Pieces Together: Health and community actors as levers of local response in Taiz and Hadhramaut, Yemen
The first part of this study, conducted by Yemen Policy Center in December 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic in Yemen, presented the factors that prevented security institutions […]
Generating relationships of trust in distrustful times
According to a recent global survey “distrust is now society’s default emotion”. Whilst this is a grand claim, it does emphasise the importance of placing trust at the heart of […]
Decolonising knowledge for development: making the road by walking
Almost one year ago, we wrote a blog for the IDS website sharing our personal views on the many ways in which countries are witnessing greater social divides driven by […]
COVID Collective Project – Impacts of COVID-19 Policies on the Vulnerable Communities in Myanmar
The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated Myanmar’s socioeconomic vulnerabilities of the poor, the squatters, and children in terms of access to health care, financial stability, job insecurity, and social insecurity. The slow […]
COVID Collective Project – Hear from our research team from Vietnam
Since the outbreak in March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected almost everyone, but not equally. According to a report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in November 2021, […]
COVID Collective Project – hear from our research team from Cambodia
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the public health crisis it triggered, the Cambodian government introduced a number of protective measures to stop the spread of the virus. These […]
The social and economic impacts of Covid-19: Learning from research in the Indo-Pacific region
Research and evidence continue to play a prominent role in how we deal with Covid-19 and the multiple challenges of the pandemic; from analysing how and if vaccination programmes are […]
Covid-19 reveals deep flaws in education systems: evidence from Malawi
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a ripple effect across the education systems of most countries. From the impacts of ill-adapted online learning in the UK to the near two-years’ lost […]
Will Covid-19 reshape development finance in the coming years?
The Covid-19 pandemic, among its many consequences, has led to major shifts in finance for development. National governments had to divert resources to immediate health responses and mitigate the economic […]