MHPSS considerations in burial practices and responses to grief and loss during COVID-19

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Adapting Common Funeral Practices in South Sudan Communities During COVID-19

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The experience of the elderly during COVID-19 in South Sudan: Considerations for a conflict sensitive approach

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This blog reflects on COVID-19 related risks that elderly people face in South Sudan and provides recommendations on how to protect them in more conflict sensitive ways. Unlike many Western countries, where some elderly people reside in care homes or on their own, in South Sudan older people usually live within their family households. As such they are looked after by their children, usually their sons and daughters-in-law, and sometimes daughters. Being with the family…

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Global Democracy and COVID-19: Upgrading International Support

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This report assesses the impact that Covid-19 is having on democracy around the world. It examines how international democracy support organisations and donors are responding to the challenges related to the pandemic and calls for a stronger and reformulated international democracy support both now and into the longer-term future. Rather than getting immersed in inconclusive debates about which kind of political system is set to deal best with Covid-19, the report calls for a more…

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‘All eyes are on local actors’: Covid-19 and local humanitarian action

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Key messages Covid-19 is shining a light on the failure of the humanitarian system to reform. This is especially true in regard to the localisation agenda, which has seen only incremental changes towards more local humanitarian action, leadership and complementarity. The pandemic could usher in more local forms of humanitarian action, and greater complementarity between local and international actors. There is anecdotal evidence of change in discourse, commitments and practice at the global and country…

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Caught in the COVID-19 storm: women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in the context of UHC and the SDGs

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In 2016, the United Nations Secretary-General mandated the Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman Every Child (IAP) to review accountability and progress in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1,1a Work for this report began before COVID-19, however, impacts of the pandemic (in both real time and in the projected implications) have been considered throughout this report. In this report, the IAP highlights what is working and what is not….

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Safe Our Education: Protect every child’s right to learn in the COVID-19 response and recovery

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The global community hopes that before too long a vaccine for COVID-19 will be found, produced and universally delivered, and the world will become safer. But unless action is taken now, the long-term legacies of the pandemic will be rising inequality and a devastating impact on children’s learning. New analysis for this report shows how COVID-19 may affect both the funding and the delivery of education in some of the countries most at risk of…

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Continuing Care During COVID-19: Adopting Life-Saving Approaches to Treat Acute Malnutrition

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Key findings and recommendations: Increased rates of acute malnutrition are an inevitable consequence of COVID-19 and the measures taken to slow its spread – especially in fragile and conflict affected settings where rates of acute malnutrition are already substantially higher than in stable settings. In the face of government-mandated shutdowns, millions of people have lost their income, agriculture harvests and sales have been disrupted, food prices have increased, and aid programs focused on nutrition have…

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Cut Corruption, Not Social Protection during COVID-19

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Before the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic began its deadly spread, global attention was focused on the staggering rise in economic inequality across many countries. Inequality accelerated following the 2008 economic crisis, when many governments responded by cutting government spending and hollowing out programs crucial to human rights such as health, housing, food support, and unemployment.   Read more

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COVID-19 & Poverty and Hunger

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COVID-19 has directly killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. It is also taking a deep toll on the food security, nutrition and livelihoods of millions of people across the globe. The socio-economic fallout from COVID-19 has resulted in sharp declines in household income due to job losses and/or reduced livelihoods options. Declining remittances is leading to steep increases in poverty and hunger, particularly in low-income developing countries. Those living in fragile and…

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