Earlier this year, 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 […]
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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 […]
Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR)
The Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR) is a sister programme to the Covid Collective, also funded by FCDO, designed to support an evidence-informed Covid-19 response and […]
Making a crisis worse – the impact of Covid-19 on education in Bangladesh
This blog explores the impact of Covid-19 on the education of children with disabilities in Bangladesh and asks how can we ensure no one is left behind? The Covid-19 pandemic […]
What we learned about accountability and responsiveness during COVID-19
Trust and transparency = success? The pandemic continues, and the jury is still out on which governments responded most effectively. But evidence suggests that trust, transparency, and accountability are likely […]
Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Bangladesh
It is by now a truism that the Covid-19 pandemic amplified already-existing inequities of all kinds, whether in its immediate impacts on individual health, or in the secondary impacts of […]
A pandemic of precarity: what COVID-19 revealed about Bangladeshi workers’ rights
Precarity under the spotlight The COVID-19 pandemic again shone the spotlight on the precarity of Bangladeshi export sector workers: garments workers lost their jobs or pay for work they had […]
What COVID-19 has meant for violence against women and girls in Bangladesh
The shadow pandemic of gender-based violence Violence against women and girls has been a ‘shadow pandemic’ worldwide, with lockdown, economic stress, and mental illness combining with a lack of access […]
New grants available for research on the impacts of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
The CLEAR programme, led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is pleased to invite Expressions of Interest for FCDO-supported grants to support the generation of new evidence on the […]
CLEAR Frequently Asked Questions
CLEAR aims to build a consortium of research partners to deliver policy relevant Covid-19 research and evidence for Bangladesh, support increased evidence uptake among policymakers and share lessons from the […]