People in Bangladesh, and elsewhere, used a variety of different coping strategies to deal with the multiple economic shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic. These often failed to prevent them from […]
CLEAR
The Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR) is an FCDO-funded programme designed to support an evidence-informed Covid-19 response and recovery in Bangladesh.
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CLEAR is led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in collaboration with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD).
It aims to deliver policy relevant Covid-19 research and evidence for Bangladesh, support increased evidence uptake among policymakers and share lessons from the Covid-19 response to better prepare for future shocks.
Research themes
CLEAR will focus on the secondary impacts of Covid-19 covering four broad thematic areas:
- Poverty and vulnerability
- Service delivery, accountability and governance
- Rights of marginalised population and disadvantaged groups
- Innovations
Research grants
CLEAR is building a consortium of research organisations to deliver policy relevant Covid-19 research and evidence for Bangladesh. Our call for Expressions of Interest is now closed.
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CLEAR Synthesis: How Covid changed state-citizen relations in Bangladesh
Bangladesh witnessed significant changes in citizen-state relations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes were triggered by several factors including the government’s push for digitalisation of citizen engagement at the local […]
CLEAR Synthesis: Innovations and Challenges in Crisis Contexts: Bangladesh’s Social Protection Response to Covid-19
IDS Research Fellow, Kate Pruce discusses the lessons generated from across a number of CLEAR research grants that looked at how social protection measures supported those made vulnerable by the […]
CLEAR Research Highlights: Chronicles of hard times in Bangladesh – Durdin-er Diaries
The Durdin-er Diaries (durdin means “hard times” in Bangla) research project explored the experiences, through the pandemic and beyond, of newly poor households in Khulna, Bangladesh, and their attempts to […]
CLEAR Research Highlights: Effective digital health platforms for sexual and reproductive health services
The BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University, led by Professor Farzana Misha, conducted this research to examine the use of digital platforms for sexual and […]
CLEAR Research Highlights: The Feedback State- Hearing and responding to Bangladeshi citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic
Bangladesh has a commendable record of learning from crises. Before the pandemic, it had implemented a range of reforms aimed at fostering citizen participation in the governance process, alongside investments […]
CLEAR final conference announced
Knowledge, power, and change in poly crisis: what can we learn from Bangladesh for the world? The Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR) set out with the […]
CLEAR Research Highlights: Becoming poor -Social protection and attitudes towards new urban poor after Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a significant increase in poverty in Bangladesh, particularly in urban areas. Rising food prices and high inflation threatened to undermine already vulnerable households ability to […]
New CLEAR research projects get underway
In 2022, CLEAR launched a competitive call for new research grants to support the generation of new evidence on the secondary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. We received […]
Chronicles of Hard Times: ‘Durdin-er diaries’ in Bangladesh
Which governance channels do people whose livelihoods and incomes were severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic navigate while attempting to bounce back? Through a joint IDS and BIGD research project […]
What support do migrant workers need? Covid-19 impact on migration in Bangladesh
From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic migrants were hard hit by job losses. Those working in precarious jobs or running small informal businesses in sectors forced to close due […]
Social protection during COVID-19 in Bangladesh
The COVID-19 crisis was an unwanted test of Bangladesh’s capacities to protect its 165 million citizens against shocks and disasters. How did its social protection system hold up against the […]