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 […]
Emerging themes from Covid Collective research
Over the past two and a half years, the Covid Collective has brought together the expertise of UK and Southern based research organisations to offer a rapid social science research […]
Humanitarianism and Covid-19: Structural Dilemmas, Fault Lines, and New Perspectives
Read the IDS Bulletin The unprecedented threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a crisis for the international humanitarian system. At a time when the number of people in […]
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 […]
New research in the Indo-Pacific region
The Covid Collective is expanding its existing portfolio of projects to include urgent social science research in Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines on key development challenges […]
Webinar tackles the challenges of sexual reproductive health and rights of young women with disabilities
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) recently hosted the first Forgotten Agenda Webinar which focused on the sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women with disabilities – particularly […]
New CGD paper reveals significant underreporting of deaths in India
A new Center for Global Development (CGD) working paper aims to quantify excess deaths from all causes, during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on state data, international estimates, serological studies and […]