Monitoring and learning during Covid-19: beyond remote data collection

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In the first weeks and months after Covid-19 hit, the author of this article, Tiina Pasanen, attended and spoke at several online workshops and webinars about on how to do monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and research during the crisis. These sessions were all very helpful, with experienced experts discussing valid issues like doing data collection remotely, the limits and strengths of phone and SMS surveys, specific ethical considerations, whether smaller sample sizes and less…

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Least Protected, Most Affected: Migrants and refugees facing extraordinary risks during the COVID-19 pandemic

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From the outset of the pandemic, and on a global basis since January 2020, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have been on the ground working to prevent, address and respond to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to reduce the economic, social and psychological impacts of the virus, with support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

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Advancing peace in a changed world: COVID-19 effects on conflict and how to respond

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Dire predictions regarding the impact of COVID-19 on armed conflict and violence have proliferated since the pandemic began. One notable forecast projects that thirteen countries are likely to experience new conflicts in the next two years due to the exacerbating effects of the pandemic. COVID-19 is now widely understood as a potential threat multiplier that can amplify existing conflict drivers, as well as an accelerant of existing conflict processes that can hasten a spiral into…

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The Hidden Impact of Covid-19 on Children: A Global Research Series

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“The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on children – A global research series” by Save the Children is the largest and most comprehensive study on the impact of COVID-19 on children. It consists of the following articles: The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Child Poverty The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Child Protection and Wellbeing The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Child Rights The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Children: Research design and methods The Hidden…

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COVID-19 and financial access: Supporting low-income businesses and households in Africa

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Financial access in Africa has been on the rise in the last decade. It has a critical role to play in increasing the resilience of households and supporting their livelihoods. Maintaining this role is vital to tackle welfare and income losses stemming from the Covid-19-sparked economic crisis. The financial impact of the pandemic is threatening to reverse gains made in per capita income. This could lead to negative coping mechanisms with damaging effects on both…

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COVID-19 and HIV: 1 moment, 2 epidemics, 3 opportunities. How to seize the moment to learn, leverage and build a new way forward for everyone’s health and rights

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This report is on three key issues: How key lessons learned from the HIV response should inform COVID-19 responses. How the HIV infrastructure is already driving COVID-19 responses and has the potential to catalyse accelerated progress through shared services and expansion. How the COVID-19 response, informed by the history of responding to HIV, offers a historic opportunity to build a bridge to adaptable results-driven systems for health that work for people.   Read more

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The need for good governance and peacebuilding in the time of COVID-19: Lessons from Northeast Nigeria

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As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to fragile and conflict-affected contexts, some donors have focused on public health and humanitarian assistance while cutting back on peacebuilding and governance programs, which are not viewed as producing immediate, tangible impacts on the spread of COVID-19. However, when strained state-society relations are part of pre-existing conflict dynamics, responses to COVID-19 that fail to incorporate governance and peacebuilding approaches run the risk of undermining their intended public health goals…

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Stigma and misinformation from COVID-19 is taking a human toll

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Stigma and misinformation from COVID-19 are such clear and present threats to global health that they are causing as much concern to policymakers as the pandemic itself. These attitudes and behaviours are killing people and causing harm through hate speech, disinformation, discrimination and xenophobia.   Read more

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The impact of COVID-19 on human and peoples’ rights in Africa

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With no vaccine yet to treat it, COVID-19 continues to pose a serious threat to the rights to health and life of people. Indeed, the governance and socio-economic fallout from COVID19 poses even more serious threat to large number of human and peoples’ rights. How we respond to COVID-19 and its impacts on the basis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights could prove to be the litmus test for mitigating the grave…

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Protect a Generation: The impact of COVID-19 on children’s lives

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An estimated 99% of children worldwide – or more than 2.3 billion children – live in one of the 186 countries that have implemented some form of restrictions due to COVID-191. Although children are not at a high risk of direct harm from the virus, they are disproportionately affected by its hidden impacts.   Download

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