Search
Results for " "
Displaying 54 of about 54 resultsThis document includes papers which are contributions to the ‘Policy Debate’ section of International Development Policy, the review of the Graduate Institute of Geneva. In this section, academics, policy-makers and practitioners engage in a dialogue on global development challenges.
The initial paper was written by Monica Rull, from Doctors Without Bo…
In this ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, different aspects of past disease outbreaks are reviewed in order to identify social science ‘entry points’ for preparedness and response activities. This brief draws out some recommendations for Ebola response actors in North Kivu. It includes lessons learned primarily from (i) historical outbreaks in Congo…
This report documents how the Government of Uganda plans to implement an Urban Cash for Work Programme to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable populations. This report analyses the factors that enabled and constrained the effectiveness of the response, at the policy and operational levels, and finds that a timely response was undermined by…
This report documents the Government of Ethiopia’s social protection response to mitigate some of the negative impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations. It also analyses the factors that enabled and constrained the effectiveness of the response, at the policy and operational levels, and finds that a more extensive and timely response was undermined…
This policy brief, from two European research projects analysing the global dimension of climate change impacts on Europe, presents a number of COVID-19 lessons for European climate change research and policy:
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting many areas of decision-making and policy planning. Lockdowns, economic shocks and public recovery packag…
JRC is developing a unified global system for public health threat detection and risk assessment (EIOS), and it is the technical and scientific leader of the Index for Risk Management (INFORM), a composite indicator that identifies countries at risk of humanitarian crisis and disaster that would overwhelm national response capacity. Both projects are in…
This new WHO report assesses the risk of a Zika virus disease outbreak occurring during late spring and summer in the European Region. While the overall risk is low to moderate, countries where Aedes mosquitoes are present are more likely to experience a Zika virus outbreak.
The report contains a series of actions that WHO recommends for countrie…
This publications discusses the best practices, the lessons learned and the recommendations taken from Cordaid's community managed disaster risk reduction program (CMDRR) in South Sudan, aimed at building disaster resilient communities for multiple hazards. The program focuses on inter-intra community conflict, drought, flood and communicable diseases,…
The objective of this report is to outline the various contributions of community-based organization (CBO) activities in terms to COVID-19 response, with a special emphasis on the case studies of Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Syria through a process of data scoping, as part of iMMAP's COVID-19 Situation Analysis Project. Community-based organiza…