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COVID-19 Policy responses for those small enough to fail – part 2

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This post highlights key considerations for designing COVID-19 policy responses to support those ‘small enough to fail’ – particularly micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and informal sector workers – and to rebuild economies in ways that reduce their vulnerability in the long run.   Read more

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Gender Matters: COVID-19’s Outsized Impact on Displaced Women and Girls

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This article argues that within already vulnerable displaced communities, women and girls are at even greater risk. Cultural norms, underrepresentation, and a host of other challenges further marginalize them socially, politically, and economically. As a result, forced displacement uniquely and disproportionately affects women and girls, as does this pandemic. The article provides analysis and recommendations for Governments where IDPs, asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless people reside, and for INGOs, national NGOs and donors working with…

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Interview: How Covid-19 could undo years of progress in the developing world

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Professor Charlotte Watts is the chief scientific adviser for the Department of International Development (Dfid) and a member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). In this interview, she talks about how developing countries could be affected by the pandemic – and why the UK’s response needs to address both domestic and international concerns.   Read more

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A Post-Coronial World: A Decolonised Future for Global Development

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This opinion piece by Indrajit Roy argues that as COVID19 rages across the world, it is renting asunder the global order. With the US in self-isolation, Europe on its knees and China discredited, the war on the virus is being successfully waged by new actors, making the established western powers and the rising Chinese power irrelevant to the global order. Countries are innovating models of development and global solidarity that promise to decolonise international development…

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Covid-19 and Illicit Financial Flows: What’s to Come

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Even in normal times, there has been a growing recognition of the threat that illicit financial flows (IFFs) pose to the integrity and stability of the global financial system. But now, with the onslaught of the Covid-19 crisis, concerns are growing that the scale and scope of IFFs could be increasing as authorities are distracted and overwhelmed by the unprecedented economic fallout. Such concerns are especially acute in developing countries, many of which are already…

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Interim guidance on Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Operations in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings

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This Interim Guidance outlines how key public health and social measures needed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and the impact of the disease can be adapted for use in low capacity and humanitarian settings. The recommendations outlined here need to be adjusted to the scale of transmission, context and resources, in order to achieve the objective of managing COVID-19, namely to reduce transmission and facilitate the detection and management of infected and exposed…

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Coronavirus and the Electoral Dilemma

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In this blog post, Nic Cheeseman, author of several books on democracy in Africa, explains why postponing elections for COVID-19 may do more harm than good.   Read more

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How Efforts to Address Conflict and Coronavirus Align

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As the unprecedented humanitarian and economic impacts of COVID-19 begin to be felt across poor and conflict-affected states, there is a risk that policymakers will lose focus on longer-term priorities—like conflict prevention and economic development. The scale of emergency aid that will be needed is becoming more clear, and the initial projections are staggering: the coronavirus is likely to cause the first increase in global poverty since 1998, with the share of the world’s population…

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Will Lessons from Cholera in Haiti Be Applied to COVID-19?

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In recent weeks, the United Nations Department of Peace Operations announced a series of protocol changes to reduce the risk that peacekeepers will introduce COVID-19 into vulnerable countries. As the introduction of cholera to Haiti in 2010 by UN peacekeepers demonstrates, such preventative measures are critical. Yet there is cause for concern that the lessons from cholera in Haiti have not translated into adequate action to protect peacekeeping host communities from the preventable transmission of…

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Coronavirus is a crisis for the developing world, but here’s why it needn’t be a catastrophe

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In this article, the authors argue for a universal ultra basic income (UUBI) as a strategy for development countries to cope with the economic impact of COVID-19.   Read more

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