This dossier is developed for our network and others to navigate the COVID-19 information overload. Here, we bring together contributions –both new and existing– that are particularly useful for the development sector; sharing perspectives that offer a different angle and go beyond immediate responses to this crisis.
COVID-19, climate change, and resilient development: towards leveraging common measures
Shifting government support away from fossil infrastructure during the post-pandemic recovery may successfully tackle the climate emergency.
How to address SRHR at a time that it is considered an unaffordable luxury?
In a time where food security, shelter and health are threatened by the coronavirus, protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights is often neglected. Stories and lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia.
The corona crisis demands more, not less democracy
We are, in short, fair-weather democrats. The reason seems our distorted view of policy, science, and politics. This article therefore presents three arguments why this crisis demands more, not less democracy.
How adaptive are ‘Adaptive Management’ programmes in a crisis like Covid?
The biggest challenge is responding in the short term while maintaining a long-term view on the ‘big changes’ we are trying to support.
The humanitarian response to COVID-19 in Somalia will increase capital flight and violent conflict
As Somalia braces for the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, debt relief will not help prepare it for the financial and political catastrophe ahead.
Recovering from COVID-19? Let’s do it without GDP growth
Just as our bodies need oxygen, the economy needs money – so the theory goes. If we do not steer away from this limited paradigm, then the cure we apply now will become a liability by giving rise to potential crises in the future.