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South Sudan: Trends in Communication Preferences and Modalities

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REACH put together this brief to summarize key findings on trends in communication preferences and modalities from past REACH assessments. The key finding is that disseminating information about COVID-19 should adopt a multi-channel messaging strategy and work through existing community communication structures. It was reported to REACH that community information sources generally do not change during an emergency  

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Moral multi-tasking in the COVID-19 response

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Hugo Slim argues that as the global aid community continues to scale up and adapt to the worldwide emergency around COVID-19, it is rightly engaging with different layers of moral decision-making to agree what is an ethically good response and not just a quick reaction.   Read more

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COVID-19: Impact on humanitarian operations

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This Quick Impact Survey is part of ACAPS’ efforts to better understand the current COVID-19 crisis and its impact on current humanitarian operations. It was sent to humanitarian organisations worldwide and conducted over four days. Key findings Measures imposed by governments or taken by organisations to protect staff and the recipients of their services have not stopped operations. While operations are affected almost everywhere, they largely continue. Important adaptations have become necessary to ensure continuation…

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Coronavirus: Why lockdowns may not be the answer in Africa

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Many African countries have introduced lockdowns in order to halt the spread of coronavirus, but, as Alex de Waal and Paul Richards argue, ordinary people have to be involved in choosing the solutions that will work for them. Read more

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Financing the coronavirus response in sub-Saharan Africa

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The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on health and livelihoods around the world. Although people are at risk of infection irrespective of their income, class, ethnicity or age, the impacts of the pandemic are likely to be acutely felt in sub-Saharan Africa. As well as health impacts, there are fears that African countries will face considerable hardship and potentially a catastrophe for jobs and livelihoods. Key messages The health impacts of the coronavirus in sub-Saharan…

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Adaptive leadership in the coronavirus response

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The coronavirus pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to science, policy and the interface between the two. How – and how quickly – policymakers, practitioners and researchers react to this emerging and complex crisis is making a profound difference to people’s lives and livelihoods (WHO, 2020). But how can we ensure effective collective decision-making on the basis of emerging evidence, changing trends and shifting scientific understanding, all in the face of considerable uncertainty? Recent experience highlights the…

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The role of community peacebuilders in a pandemic: what we learnt from the Ebola crisis

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Comparing the current situation with the Ebola crisis, Janet Adama Mohammed from Conciliation Resources argues that a deep-rooted mistrust towards the government had been one of the main reasons for the rapid spread of this disease and that this is where local peacebuilders have an extremely important role as bridgebuilders between communities and government institutions. Read more

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From Zika to COVID-19: Can we learn lessons across pandemics?

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In this blog post, Ildo Lautharte Junior and Imran Rasul show that evidence gathered during the course of the Zika outbreak in the Americas in 2015 provides important lessons for policymakers in today’s COVID-19 pandemi, especially with regard to public health and household responses.   Read more

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Coronavirus in Conflict Zones: A Sobering Landscape

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The new coronavirus is spreading into conflict-affected states. Frances Z. Brown and Jarrett Blanc from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argue that the pandemic and efforts to contain it are much more likely to aggravate and multiply conflicts than reduce or end them, and offer analyses for several conflict-affected contexts around the world. Read more

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Policy Lessons From COVID-19 in Africa

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In his blog “An Africanist Perspective”, Ken Opalo, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University and the author of Legislative Development in Africa, draws some lessons he has gleaned from African governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.   Read more

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