Covid-19 caused a major impact on households’ production and access to quality, nutritious food, due to losses of income, combined with increasing food prices, and restrictions to movements of people, […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
Blog
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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CORE partners engage with key stakeholders
CORE research seeks to understand the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and generate better policy options for recovery. In order to maximise the learning generated across the […]
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Shaping policy and practice with intersectional gender responsive evidence
On 19 and 20 October, the Institute of Development Studies hosted an online dialogue with CORE partners on Shaping policy and practice with intersectional gender responsive evidence (in the context […]
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Arab hub for social protection from Covid website launched
The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) has recently launched the ‘Arab Hub for Social Protection from Covid’ website as part of its CORE project on Promoting Resilience in COVID-19 in MENA: […]
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Promoting Resilience in COVID-19 in MENA: Building Inclusive and Effective Social Protection and Safety Nets
This project focuses on the promotion of inclusive and effective social protections and safety nets during and post-COVID-19 in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Social safety nets are interpreted differently […]