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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsCOVID-19 has emerged as a huge shock that will affect all public social systems directly and indirectly. This report synthesises the findings from a series of rapid situation analyses on the initial response to COVID-19 in the first few months of the outbreak – March to May 2020 – in five countries: Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.…
Large health shocks such as COVID-19 carry an expensive price tag – for the response, the recovery, as well as more long-term economic losses. The response phase is typically characterised by a great sense of urgency as the public financial management (PFM) system attempts to provide funding quickly in order to curb the outbreak early. However, in many…
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the response to the pandemic is unfolding with various DRR governance approaches and initiatives to curb the spread of the disease as well as its interconnected socioeconomic impacts. As a result of an often resourced constrained environment and strong past experiences with the Ebola crises, approaches in Sub-Saharan countries hav…