On the third anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic on March 11, 2023, IDRC and CORE released a series of videos which showcased emerging learnings and impacts of the […]
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CORE research teams meet at last in Dakar, Senegal
The CORE initiative marked an important milestone earlier this year: the first in-person learning workshop after more than two years of online interactions and virtual activities. Over fifty participants from […]
Building universal social protection systems in the Arab region
Last week, the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) and The Policy Initiative (TPI) organised a regional policy forum on ‘Building Universal Social Protection Systems in the Arab Region’ in Beirut Lebanon. […]
World Bank and IMF leaders urged to take inclusive fiscal approach to building resilience in developing countries
New Research on the impact of Covid-19, spanning 42 low- and middle-income counties, has identified macroeconomic and social policies required to build resilience against future health shocks and environmental emergencies. […]
Colabora.Lat team holds regional event on the importance of collaboration
Last month, members of the Colaborat.lat: Towards a New Model of Governance after Covid-19 project got together with key stakeholders from Latin America at the ‘Colabora.lat Regional Meeting: a collaborative […]
Making pandemic recovery more inclusive in Pakistan and Nigeria
PEP researchers from Nigeria and Pakistan show how recovery measures must include the poorest population groups. Grappling with an unforeseen crisis As the world grappled with the Covid-19 crisis, governments […]
New findings on Covid-19 and informal work
As part of the Informal workers and Covid-19: Evidence-based responses to the crisis at the base of the economic pyramid project, WIEGO has launched a new Working Paper on ‘Covid-19 […]
New Collaborative Governance Index
How well did Latin American governments respond to Covid-19? As part of the Colabora.Lat: Towards a New Model of Governance after Covid-19 project, Asuntos del Sur has recently launched a new […]
COYOQA team holds regional dissemination webinar
Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), in collaboration with the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA) in Ethiopia, the University of Makerere in […]
CORE leads CSW66 discussion on Covid-19 and gender
Last week, the Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) Knowledge Translation programme, in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), organised a side event at the sixty-sixth session of the […]
Gender inequalities deepen in multiple countries due to impacts of Covid-19
New research reveals how Covid-19 has deepened gender inequalities and gender poverty in countries including India, South Africa, Mexico, Peru, Benin and Burkina Faso. Three studies commissioned by the Covid-19 […]
Latin American countries had very different Covid-19 death rates. Which policies worked?
Matias Bianchi and Jennifer Cyr of Asuntos del Sur write about how collaboration helped forge more effective government responses in Latin America in this analysis piece published in the Washington […]