Publication

Session 4: Health financing priorities in the time of COVID-19?

Why this session now? COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses in health systems across the world, and the economic effects are soon expected to play out in a revenue crunch for public finances, adding a fiscal crisis to a public health crisis. Faced with such challenges, policy makers and funding...

Report

Rapid Action Learning for Sanitation and Hygiene Programming

Frontiers of Sanitation: Innovations and Insights 15

This issue of Frontiers of Sanitation describes four Rapid Action Learning approaches that have been developed and tested in India by IDS and partners to support the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin, and encourages others to use them, to innovate other approaches, and to share their...

Brief

Key Considerations: Emerging Evidence on Shielding Vulnerable Groups During COVID-19

Shielding is a term used to describe the protection of individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19 illness by separating them from the general population. An initial analysis of key considerations regarding shielding was set forth in the previous Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform...

Report

Social Impacts and Responses Related to Covid-19 in Low- and Middle-income Countries

K4D Emerging Issues Report 35

This report focuses on the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries and considerations around preparedness, response/mitigation, resilience, and recovery measures taken or proposed in response. However, it should be acknowledged that the different 10 impacts...