When the COVID-19 pandemic struck three years ago, IDRC quickly made the decision to redirect significant funding to rapid pandemic response. We knew that public policies to limit the spread […]
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Mitigating the effects of Covid-19 in West Africa
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world took a range of measures to fight against the spread of the pandemic, including containment measures, closure of public […]
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Evidence reveals better ways to protect livelihoods and rights during global emergencies
In 2020, IDRC mobilised to support research to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its largest initiative within this response, Covid-19 Responses for Equity, sought to understand the socioeconomic impacts of […]
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The real value of pandemic research stretches far beyond short term policy responses
The human tragedy of Covid-19 has provided a challenging research environment that has tested the ability of development donors to rapidly mobilise funding and support impact. A new report by […]
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Social accountability for meaningful youth engagement in Kenya
The Covid-19 and the youth question in Africa: Response, impact and prevention measures in the IGAD region (COYOQA) project is a participatory action research project in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. […]
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Stranded in a pandemic: migrant and refugee experiences call for collaborative governance
This blog was first published on the IDRC website. EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (CC BY-ND 2.0)People crossing the border between Guatemala and Mexico. The mobility of almost everyone […]
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Call in the social science cavalry for post-pandemic recovery
This blog was first published on Asia Pathways. Many governments around the world found themselves ill-prepared to respond to the massive social and economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus disease […]
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Covid-19: A global response to a global challenge
On the two year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic, Estefania Charvet of Southern Voice reflects on what has changed since the start of Covid-19. Changes in […]
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Why Covid-19 recovery must be gender responsive
The Coronavirus pandemic is having a major impact on livelihoods across the globe, with women and minority communities working in informal economies often the hardest hit. This is the focus […]
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Top 5 Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021
This blog was first published on Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing’s (WIEGO) website on 1 February. 2021 was another tough year for informal workers: their earnings stayed far […]
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Rethinking our understanding of vulnerability under the pandemic
One of the challenges facing organisations trying to assess the Covid-19 pandemic’s socio-economic impact on vulnerable social groups is how to understand vulnerability in a complex and data-poor context. As […]
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Flexibility and adaptation: shaping research practice during Covid-19
Carrying out research in complex and dynamic socio-political contexts can be difficult. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has deepened, extended, and created new challenges, causing research partners around the […]