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podcastPress release: Most Senegalese say they have received government assistance in dealing with COVID-19, but more than half consider it inequitable
- in French - March 29, 2021CRES (Senegal)
According to latest Afrobarometer survey, more than seven in 10 people have received government assistance during the pandemic.
COVID-19 Impact on Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sri Lanka
- March 29, 2021by Amila Balasuriya, Halgamage Don Sudarshana, Anojan Jayasundara, Marito Garcia, Tatsuya Hirokawa, Ryotaro Hayashi - CEPA (Sri Lanka)
Education quality could drop due to difficulties in conducting training online, and lack of internet access and digital devices.
Post-COVID world discourse: four fault lines
- March 29, 2021by Debapriya Bhattacharya, Sarah Sabin Khan - Southern Voice
The urgency induced by COVID-19 is a clear opportunity for stakeholders in the global South to amplify their voice and role.
Qualitative field research in the time of COVID-19: The nuances of peer research methods
- March 24, 2021by Faruq Hossain, Shamael Ahmed - BIGD (Bangladesh)
How did BIGD conduct an ethnographic study in one of Dhaka's largest slums while satisfying social distancing requirements?
Closing the digital gap in education: What should we look at beyond the delivery of computers?
- in Spanish - March 23, 2021by Helga Cuéllar-Marchelli - FUSADES (El Salvador)
Technological applications could improve educational processes in El Salvador.
COVID-19 impacts and short-term economic recovery in Kenya
- March 22, 2021by Victor Nechifor, Emanuele Ferrari, Evelyne Kihiu, Joshua Laichema, Daniel Omanyo, Rodgers Musamali, Benson Kiriga - KIPPRA (Kenya)
The Kenyan government has put in place a set of measures to address the healthcare crisis and support economic recovery.
Stitching Solutions: Protecting Sri Lanka’s Apparel Workers During COVID-19
- March 22, 2021by Kithmina Hewage, Anjana Pathirana - Southern Voice
89% of apparel workers reported being temporarily retrenched, with partial or no pay, during the first wave of COVID-19.
Good and Bad Fiscal Policy Practices in the Context of COVID-19 in Honduras
- in Spanish - March 21, 2021by Joel Aleman - FOSDEH (Honduras)
In the particular case of Honduras, fiscal reforms and attention to small and medium-sized enterprises were proposed for economic reactivation.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression symptoms of young people in the global south: evidence from a four-country cohort study
- March 21, 2021by Alan Sánchez Jiménez, Annina Hittmeyer, Catherine Porter, Marta Favara, Douglas Scott, Revathi Ellanki, Tassew Woldehanna, Le Thuc Duc, Michelle G Craske, Alan Stein - GRADE (Peru)
Results show lower rates of anxiety and depression in rural areas in Ethiopia and Peru, but significantly higher ones in India.
Latinoamerica Sostenible calls for a change in direction in the region with a fair and resilient recovery in the face of the current crisis
- in Spanish - March 19, 2021Espacio Público (Chile)
The pandemic has shown the vulnerability of Chilean cities in terms of housing deficit and access to services.
Social Perceptions on the Role of Women Must Change
- March 19, 2021by Sunimalee Madurawala - IPS (Sri Lanka)
The effects of the pandemic have already derailed progress made towards achieving gender equality (SDG 5).
Resilience of the informal economy to the test of COVID-19: CRES conducts a survey to produce data on the great Dakar metropolis
- in French - March 16, 2021CRES (Senegal)
This partnership with IDRC aims to generate evidence on food systems and the impact of COVID-19 on the informal economy in Dakar.
Experiences of Frontline Workers in Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- March 16, 2021by Avani Kapur, Ritwik Shukla, Udit Ranjan, Sanaya Sinha, Jenny Susan John, Dinesh Kumar, Ram Ratan, Seema Muskan, Vinod Verma, Anil Baber, Premchand Kumar, Swapna Ramtake - CPR (India)
Frontline workers faced lack of community trust and compliance, along with several household and personal challenges.
Back to School 2021: An Analysis of Provincial Protocols
- in Spanish - March 15, 2021by María Eugenia Bucciarelli, Iván Matovich - CIPPEC (Argentina)
Argentina's educational policy must respond to the country's imminent return to face-to-face classes.
Business integrity during COVID-19: How to build integrity and trust within businesses during a pandemic?
- March 15, 2021by Bakhtawar Khalid - SDPI (Pakistan)
More Pakistani companies have developed a human-centric approach in their communication and public messaging during the pandemic.