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Planning for the World After COVID-19: Assessing the Domestic and International Drivers of Conflict

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This article examines how COVID-19 contributes to domestic and international drivers of instability. It argues that the best way to address these challenges is through improved dialogue at the international and local level.   Read more

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Policy Brief: COVID-19 & Conflict Sensitivity

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World Vision International and Search for Common Ground voice serious concerns about the immediate and long-term impact of COVID-19 and ongoing response measures on the well-being of people, in particular of children and young people, living in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. In this brief, they aim to highlight the need for a conflict-sensitive response and provide recommendations for strengthening European donors’ global COVID-19 response. As leading donors and in line with commitments to integrated responses…

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Briefing Paper: A Practical Approach to Prevent, Address and Document Domestic Violence under COVID-19

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This briefing paper analyses successful interventions to make key programmatic recommendations for grassroots organisations working on the frontlines of gender and the COVID-19 crisis, as well as policy recommendations for the international community. The first part of this briefing paper gives programmatic recommendations for local and national organisations for preventing, addressing, and documenting domestic violence. The second chapter sets out key recommendations for governments, UN Agencies, and international organisations, in aspects of funding, policy-making, and…

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To help respond to Covid-19, African governments should prioritise taxing the rich

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So far, policy discussions about tax responses to Covid-19 have focused overwhelmingly on how to offer immediate tax relief. There is a clear sequence in these discussions: tax relief today, expanded revenue collection in the future to compensate. This blog explores a less conventional argument: that African governments may want to think much more immediately about sustaining—and even expanding—taxation of rich individuals in particular. It outlines the arguments for this strategy and examines the nuts…

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Governance Implicationsof Epidemic Disease in Africa: Updating the Agenda for COVID-19

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African countries have much experience with epidemics of communicable diseases. Nonetheless, certain aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are new; for example its impacts on the global economy, and the extreme restrictions on social interaction that are recommended as mitigation measures. Other aspects of the pandemic are familiar; for example high levels of illness that overwhelm limited health care capacity, a spike in mortality, and the conjuncture of these two elements with a severe economic downturn.This…

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COVID-19 and Gender-based Violence in Conflict: New Challenges and Persistent Problems

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PSRP research on gender-based violence and its relationship to conflict includes useful insights on the likely impacts of the COVID-19 restrictions in conflict-affected settings. This blog distils some of the most pertinent insights from PSRP research, drawing in particular on Jessica Doyle and Monica McWilliams pathbreaking longitudinal study of the impact on women’s experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) of the formal end to conflict in Northern Ireland; Aisling Swaine’s comparative study of the evolution…

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What did we learn from preparing for cross-border transmission of Ebola virus disease into a complex humanitarian setting – The Republic of South Sudan?

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Background Following the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak (2013–2016), WHO developed a preparedness checklist for its member states. This checklist is currently being applied for the first time on a large and systematic scale to prepare for the cross border importation of the ongoing EVD outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo hence the need to document the lessons learnt from this experience. This is more pertinent considering the complex humanitarian context and…

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COVID-19 in humanitarian crises: A double emergency

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The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) analysis and approach to COVID-19 draws on decades of experi-ence as a humanitarian and health responder in the world’s most complex crises, including as one of the largest responders to the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and the DRC and Cholera in Yemen – the largest outbreaks of the diseases in modern history. IRC’s experience finds conflict-affected and fragile countries face a double emergency: 1. The direct impact of COVID-19…

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OPINION: Migration and COVID-19 in Uganda: The challenges of urban refugees

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On 22 March, Uganda confirmed its first case of Covid-19. So far 55 cases have been found in the country. To contain the spread of the virus, President Yoweri Museveni ordered the closure of schools and all places allowing for public gatherings, including bars, non-food markets and shopping malls. Public transport and use of vehicles have also been banned and a night-time curfew put in place. The social distancing rule, initially the usual 1,5 meters,…

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Tips for Engaging Communities during COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings, Remotely and In-Person

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This brief provides key considerations for engaging communities on COVID-19 and tips for how to engage where there are movement restrictions and physical distancing measures in place, particularly in low-resource settings. It is designed for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, government agencies, and other humanitarian and implementing actors working on health promotion, risk communication, and community engagement for COVID-19.   Download

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