Supporting Continued Access to Education during COVID-19 – Emerging Promising Practices

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This document is the first in a series that highlights emerging practices as UNHCR operations and their partners work to support continued education for displaced and refugee students during the pandemic. Download Issue 1

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Gender, Masculinity, and COVID-19

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Gender is shaping the COVID-19 crisis in real and significant ways. Beyond the direct, visible practices that by now we all should understand—stay home, wash your hands, step back six feet—gender and its interactions with class, race, and immigrant status impact a number of dimensions of this crisis. From epidemiology to the vulnerabilities of front-line health workers, from the distribution of care work within families to the implications of quarantine for domestic violence, the author…

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Adapting social protection in the wake of Covid-19

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Everywhere you look, and even if you didn’t realise it, countries are using social protection to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic on a massive scale. Whether it is huge unemployment support packages in the UK and France, new and adapted cash transfer, food voucher, and school feeding programmes, unemployment insurance or subsidised sick leave, all are examples of using and adapting social protection to address a shock affecting large numbers of vulnerable people simultaneously. This…

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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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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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Context matters – Why Africa should tailor its own measures to fight COVID-19

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This brief identifies political, economic and social risks related to coronavirus responses in Africa and emphasises the disproportionate burden carried by women. It argues that localised measures, which include dialogue, transparency and flexibility, may be the only realistic way forward, while underlining the need for wealthier states to provide generous aid packages, debt cancellations and continued investments, in spite of current challenges, in order for Africa to pull through yet another challenge.   Read more

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People in poverty bear the brunt of Covid-19, and the worst is yet to come

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In this blog post, Keetie Roelen argues that poverty puts people at greater risk of getting infected with coronavirus, and also makes them carry the brunt of its economic fallout. This transcends traditional boundaries of the ‘Global South’ and ‘Global North’ with consequences felt by people living in precarious conditions across the globe. The much-repeated meme that the virus doesn’t discriminate suggests a false sense of equality, while in fact Covid-19 lays bare and reinforces…

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Africa: Coronavirus – Never Been a More Compelling Time for African Scientists to Work Together

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Amid the rising number of deaths from COVID-19, political leadership, health systems and scientific prowess is being tested locally and internationally. The pandemic provides an opportunity for innovation and new scientific discoveries. For example, the emergence of cases in Africa inspire African-based studies to tap into the diverse genetic background of Africans for important clues in the identification of biomarkers of coronavirus infection. However, for global scientific solutions to come from Africa a number of…

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Covid 19 – why gender matters

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This blog, written by Caroline Harper, Carmen Leon-Himmelstine and Rachel George, will be updated over the next two weeks. Public headlines on the Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted common imperatives: immediately, the capacity of health provision and addressing economic impacts. Secondly, concerns about political leadership, education, food security and the practicalities of social distancing, to name just a few. The authors argue that there are gender dimensions to every aspect of this pandemic, and that gender justice…

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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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