Covid Collective
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis requiring rapid generation of policy-relevant evidence to inform decision-making as we move from crisis to recovery phase and beyond.
The Covid Collective is a global partnership of research organisations supporting the co-generation, curation, mobilisation and exchange of emerging evidence to inform the global response to the pandemic.
The research portfolio and work of the collective is overseen by an FCDO and IDS Executive Committee supported by an Advisory Group made up of representation from partner institutions to help guide the evolution of the Collective. The publications presented in this collection are outputs of the Collective and it's partners.
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The Covid Collective offers a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.
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Covid -19 : Considerations for vaccine rollout in LMICS
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020Covid-19 has wreaked global havoc. Lives and livelihoods have been destroyed with it no wonder that the news of vaccine approval and rollout has brought hope to so many. But, for the world’s poor, vaccine distribution is complex. It requires resources, coordination and, above all, trust that too often are commodities in short supply....The World Bank’s Response to Our Analysis of its COVID Relief Efforts October 16, 2020 Scott Morris and Justin Sandefur
Center for Global Development, USA, 2020Our recent paper examining the World Bank’s COVID-19 performance garnered a response from the institution, which you can read here. We very much welcome the bank’s comments on its crisis performance in reaction to our paper. We stand by the data and conclusions of our paper, but it’s worth reviewing some of the issues under debate here and reiterating the core questions and findings from our work....Qualitative field research in the time of COVID-19: The nuances of peer research methods
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, 2021COVID-19 is forcing us to discover alternative ways of doing things; qualitative field research, which traditionally calls for close interaction between researchers and their populations of interest, had to be reimagined to satisfy the need for social distancing, a preventative measure against the virus. Just before the pandemic, a serious researcher would rarely consider the account of someone belonging to the population of interest, i.e. a community researcher, as the principal source of data....Local reconciliation committees in northern Syria: Managing daily conflicts in a country at war
University of Edinburgh, 2021Local Voices at a Crossroads is an article series in which local actors of everyday peace share their insights into the fragilities and resilience of their societies in the face of conflict. For the first part of the series, we focus our attention on Syria, building on a research project supported by the Covid Collective on the impact of COVID-19 on local peace-making in Syrian opposition-held areas....Political Trust at a Time of Pandemic: A long-term repercussion of COVID-19 on durable peace
University of Edinburgh, 2021In Syria, like in other conflict-affected countries, the COVID-19 pandemic added another layer of vulnerability and uncertainty. Several reports pointed to COVID-19 as a threat multiplier, exacerbating existing fragilities and grievances and posing long-lasting challenges to durable peace. Yet, it is not easy to single out the impact of the pandemic on pre-existing vulnerabilities. This is all the more so the case in Syria, which entered its tenth year of conflict in March 2021....Regional approaches to Covid-19: The response by Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to the pandemic
University of Edinburgh, 2021COVID-19, unsurprisingly, has had far-reaching repercussions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The pandemic has affected the MENA region, which stretches from the Maghreb in North-West Africa to Pakistan in the east, in different ways. The variety in political structures, health system preparedness, and economic conditions across MENA countries translates into large inequalities between countries in terms of their capacity to cope with health emergencies and its averse consequences....Remote research and disability inclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2021Covid-19 has brought with it a host of changes for development researchers. In many cases, fieldwork has been replaced with remote research methods, ranging from third party data collection to phone interviews and SMS surveys. Whilst remote methods are improving, there are some clear gaps in the existing literature and discussions on the subject. One key issue that has not received enough attention is how we include persons with disabilities when using remote research methods....Is Covid-19 reshaping our approach to development research?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2021Today marks the first anniversary of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic. The announcement represents a historic moment in which the WHO called on nations to take coordinated global action to tackle a truly global challenge. Whilst the distribution of the vaccine remains contentious, it does offer hope. The pandemic has also resulted in the global development community working collaboratively in innovative new ways and posed questions about how we carry out research that we can learn a great deal from....Community mapping in Kenya improves state Covid-19 response
African Cities Research Consortium, 2021This case study – originally published as part of Covid Collective Research for Policy and Practice series – shows how an urban social movement was able to produce the knowledge that state agencies needed when the pandemic struck, securing more inclusive policy responses and building legitimacy for alternative knowledge processes and associated development ambitions.It details how, as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic struck Kenya, the Muungano Alliance began to collect data from its community leaders based in 313 informal neighbourhoods across 21 counties....Covid-19: Community Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2021Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated differences that already existed. Health outcomes and the economic impacts of resulting lockdowns have not been evenly distributed and inequalities have deepened. As the pandemic began, there were widespread concerns for the urban poor. Population density and limited service provision in informal neighbourhoods meant that standard measures to reduce transmission were difficult or impossible. Livelihoods based on day labour and the unskilled service economy were also most seriously affected by the resulting lockdowns....