The third Account4COVID webinar and final for 2020 sought to shed light on the socio-economic urgency imposed by COVID-19 surrounding vulnerable groups. Participants explored the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on African economies and vulnerable groups and how civic actors are informing governments’ response and recovery efforts to ensure effective dissemination of relief to beneficiaries…
The world has entered its ninth month of combatting COVID-19, with all the mourning and pain left in its wake. It is now clear with hindsight that the safest strategy against the pandemic is not just rapid response to first contact, but initial prevention at a robust scale. In the central Asian country of Mongolia,…
The case for co-creation, openness and government transparency for procurement as the pandemic continues. “With publishing of data… we are beginning to see what we saw with name-and-shame campaigns. Data by itself, out of context without speaking to the broader issues—doesn’t get the job done. Name and shame only works, when there is shame. And…
After the launch of the Global Integrity COVID-19, Fiscal Governance & Anti-Corruption Database in 2020, we are now happy to make an update to our Global Integrity COVID-19, Fiscal Governance & Anti-Corruption Database that is open to all with +800 resources on COVID-19, fiscal governance, anti-corruption, and vaccine distribution. Since we have recently joined COVID-19…
Written by Nada Zohdy and Abigail Bellows. “We are wearing masks but we are not going to shut our mouths,” read signs at a car protests in Warsaw this April. Polish feminist organizers designed these creative demonstrations in response to attempts by Parliament to roll back reproductive rights during the pandemic. Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic…
Written by Alan Hudson and Parker Essick We are not epidemiologists, or behavioral scientists. Neither can we claim any expertise in modeling the potential consequences of policy actions to inform policy design and implementation. But we do have lots of experience of exploring whether and how data and learning can support the design and implementation…