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Promoting Health Equity, Gender and Ethnic Equality, and Human Rights in COVID-19 Responses: Key Considerations
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic affects diverse groups of women and men differently. The risks and consequences are disproportionately felt by certain groups, especially those living in situations of vulnerability and those who experience discrimination. It is vital that country responses to COVID-19 consider equity, gender, ethnicity, and human rights perspectives to: [1] prevent the expansion of inequalities; [2] account for the everyday lived realities of different groups that may affect the success of measures."
Pan American Health Organization
2020
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Tropical Cyclone Harold and COVID-19: Lessons from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
From the Document: "The international aid response of the United Nations to TC [tropical cyclone] Harold is being coordinated by UNICEF [United Nations Children's Fund], whose staff are meeting with Vanuatu government officials. UNICEF is providing technical support for critical water and sanitation needs, as well as health, nutrition, and shelter response plans in Vanuatu and Fiji. However, due to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] threat, the Government of Vanuatu is not allowing foreigners to enter the country, and is mandating that all humanitarian cargo undergo strict health protocols before being offloaded. While the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated some nations, causing thousands of deaths, many of the tropical Pacific islands, including Tonga and Vanuatu, have been completely spared; as of 14 April, neither has any known cases of the disease. Other islands have had only a few; Fiji has just 16 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 14 April."
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Allen, Ethan
2020?
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Incremental Community-Based Exit Strategies for Initiating and Removing COVID-19 Lockdowns
From the Document: "Many nations across the Asia-Pacific have implemented guidelines for social distancing and introduced lockdowns to control COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. However, now many leaders face the question of how they will be able to relieve their communities of the protective constraints in place. Who decides when safe is 'safe enough', or what level of residual risk is acceptable? Getting this wrong is something no leader can afford. By applying a community-based incremental approach to the easing of lockdowns, tailored to demographic and social stratifications of risk, much of the guesswork can be eliminated."
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Canyon, Deon; Coppola, Damon P.; Ryan, Benjamin
2020?
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Online PFA Training for COVID-19
From the Description: "The Basic training in PFA [Psychological First Aid] for COVID19 [coronavirus disease 209] outbreak response package is developed in response to the urgent need for training on how to support people in distress because of the COVID-19 outbreak. It can be used by trainers around the world. Run the interactive on-line training using the accompanying PowerPoints, videos, participant's worksheet or record the training for participants to follow when it fits their schedule. The training can be translated into any language and adapted to any context."
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
2020
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Continuity of Operations
From the Background: "[1] Continuity of operations (COOP) during a pandemic requires using existing continuity plans and strategies in more adaptive ways to address unique operational requirements, to include employee health, social distancing, and widespread absenteeism. [2] The following is a list of key findings and considerations for jurisdictions and communities regarding ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) operations across the country. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute or should be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Crisis and the Coming Cold War
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Crisis has been a significant global event, putting stress on states in how they respond, exasperating geopolitical tensions between great powers, and impacting manufacturing and shipping. Many are scrambling to understand the long-term consequences, with Foreign Policy's recent review by 12 leading intellectuals being an obvious example. Notable predictions from them include the possible end of (economic) globalization, or at least the end of US-led globalization; other predictions include the rise of state power, diminishing individual liberties and highlighting the limitations of international organizations ('the state is back'); and others note the implicit ideological struggle between the authoritarian and democratic models of response to the virus."
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Hemmings, John
2020?
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COVID-19: End of Hyper-Globalization and Start of Hyper-Localization?
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] is such a path altering global pandemic, which will forever the change the way as to how we not only interact with each other at an individual and societal level because of the new rules of social distancing, but it will also determine how nation-states demonstrate resilience and how they respond to the pandemic and regenerate after the end-state of this crisis is eventually realized. COVID-19 is said to have originated in a rare animal meat market in Wuhan city in Hubei Province in Central China and then the virus hopped on the well-used routes of globalization facilitated by modern air travel and caused an explosive global contagion. COVID-19 is unique because it has successfully resisted containment, it spread invisibly and it was carried by humans to every corner of the world, thereby effectively shutting down every social, economic, and political dimension of the world. COVID-19 has challenged government preparedness and it is testing the limits of effective governance both in authoritarian and democratic states."
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Sitaraman, Srini
2020?
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Mass Surveillance and Individual Privacy
From the Document: "During a crisis, governments will seek to implement technological solutions in an effort be responsive. The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is no exception--in order to contain the spread of an outbreak and to assist with contact tracing, governments are using technologies, such as facial recognition, surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence, and mobile phone apps. The use of technological solutions, however, comes at a cost to individual privacy."
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Miyamoto, Inez
2020?
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COVID-19: Analysis and Policy Implications
From the Introduction: "This report discusses the implications of the current novel Coronavirus pandemic (also referred to as COVID-19) for the Department of Defense (DoD). Below, we explore epidemics from a policy perspective, focus on the immediate-term implications of the pandemic for the Department of Defense, and consider the long-term implications for the U.S. Government and DoD -- specifically with respect to funding. The novel Coronavirus first appeared in China in late 2019 in Wuhan province, and has spread rapidly across the world. Its virulence and high fatality rate -- particularly among older adults -- have created a public health crisis the likes the world has not seen in living memory. The closure of most businesses in the Western world seems destined to send both national economies and the global economy into recession. Both civil and military resources are being strained in response to this new event."
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (Washington, D.C.)
Schramm, Harrison; Chlan, Kevin; Kouretsos, Peter
2020
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Managing Conflicts and Disasters: Exploring Collaboration Between Employers' and Workers' Organizations
From the Document: "Globally, employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) and workers' organizations contribute to achieving solutions and building social cohesion and rule of law. Partnership between social partners leads to good governance, peace and stability and can boost economic and social progress. Even when countries experience disruptive situations such as a natural disaster, conflict or social unrest, the individual and collective efforts of social partners can positively work towards improved stability and inclusive economic, social and political development. This publication looks at the role that employers and workers, through their respective organizations, play in crisis situations arising from conflict and disaster. It explores the leadership function that EBMOs have deployed to maintain an environment for continued economic activity and the key role that workers' organizations take to assist workers, in particular those who have been made vulnerable by a crisis. The report importantly examines how EBMOs and workers' organizations have collaborated through social dialogue and other means of collective action to promote peace, prevent crises, enable recovery and build resilience."
International Labour Organisation
2020
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Safety First: Serving Food and Protecting People During COVID-19
From the Summary: "Most Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infections are thought to be caused when the virus spreads directly from one person who is infected, but may not even have any symptoms, to another person who is not infected. A far smaller number of infections are thought to be caused by contact with a contaminated surface or object. This document provides many details on how to prevent Covid-19 spread in the workplace."
Aspen Institute; World Central Kitchen; Off Their Plate . . .
2020?
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Protecting People and Economies: Integrated Policy Responses to COVID-19
From the Executive Summary: "[1] The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a global health emergency and an unprecedented economic crisis of historic magnitude. Governments facing this threat are in uncharted territory, but three policy priorities addressed in this note are clear: [2] Disease containment is a first-order concern to combat the pandemic, and measures such as testing and tracing, coupled with isolating and treating the infected can bring first-order gains. [3] The economic crisis requires a parallel and simultaneous effort to save jobs, protect income, and ensure access to services for vulnerable populations. [4] As governments act to slow the pandemic and protect lives and livelihoods now, they will need to maintain macro stability, continue to build trust, and communicate clearly to avoid deeper downturns and social unrest. Looking forward, this crisis can be an opportunity to rethink policy to build back with stronger systems for people and economies."
World Bank Group
2020
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Schooling Disrupted, Schooling Rethought: 'How the Covid-19 Pandemic is Changing Education'
From the Introduction: "The Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has created a range of education challenges, not just to public health, but to many other areas of activity including education. The need to contain the spread of the pandemic led many governments to put in place measures limiting physical proximity. In many cases this constrained the ability of students and teachers to meet in schools, as they normally would. Sustaining education continuity amidst this pandemic has been challenging around the world. To assist education leaders in those efforts the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] and the Global Education Innovation Initiative at Harvard University have collaborated to obtain and analyse information on the education conditions faced in countries, and on the approaches adopted to sustain educational opportunity. [...] This new report is based on a survey conducted between 25 April and 7 May 2020. As with the previous survey, we conducted the survey on line through our various networks, including the country delegations of the OECD and the institutional partners of the Global Education Innovation Initiative at Harvard University. The first part of this report analyses the responses of 37 senior government officials and 113 education administrators. The second part of this report analyses the responses provided by 747 teachers and 246 school administrators. Table A1 in the Appendix presents the total number of responses from senior government officials and education administrators received per country and the specific roles of the respondents."
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Reimers, Fernando; Schleicher, Andreas
2020
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Framework to Guide an Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
From the Summary: "This report aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Pandemic. The report explains why the necessary social isolation measures will disrupt school-based education for several months in most countries around the world. Absent an intentional and effective strategy to protect opportunity to learn during this period, this disruption will cause severe learning losses for students. The report proposes that leaders of education systems and organizations develop plans for the continuation of education through alternate modalities, during the period of necessary social isolation. It offers a framework of areas to be covered by such plans."
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Reimers, Fernando; Schleicher, Andreas
2020
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Government Support and the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Document: "The economic consequences of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic call for urgent policy responses to support households and firms alike, but how this support is designed will be critical in ensuring that it does not result in enduring global market distortions. Support packages that are time-limited, targeted, cash-based, and consistent with longer-term objectives are the basis for ensuring a sustainable recovery. Transparency of support packages is critical for public trust, but also once the crisis is over in order to foster accountability and enable governments to learn from what worked best."
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2020
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Using Technology to Communicate with Survivors During a Public Health Crisis
From the Document: "During a public health crisis such as the current COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, when public health officials recommend 'social distancing' to slow the spread of infection, technology such as video calls or web chats may be useful tools to connect with survivors remotely. In considering new technology, survivors must be at the center of our decision-making. This is true in ordinary times and must still apply even in a public health crisis. In practice, this means prioritizing both access and privacy."
National Network to End Domestic Violence
2020
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Database of State Voting Laws: Preparing for Elections During a Pandemic
From the Description: "The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented a severe threat to state election plans in 2020 for primaries and for the general election. To conduct an election during the COVID-19 pandemic, states need registration and voting options that minimize direct personal contact and that reduce crowds and common access to high-touch surfaces. Another way to think about preparedness for conducting elections during a pandemic is to consider the flexibility that state election processes afford in terms of where, when, and how voters can get registered and cast votes. Particularly valuable to flexibility in the pandemic context are options that allow for the registration and voting processes to happen remotely or in ways that reduce person-to-person contact. This tool supplements a companion report and provides state-by-state granular details about voter registration, remote voting, and early voting, including references to relevant state laws. This report is part of RAND's Countering Truth Decay initiative, which is focused on restoring the role of facts, data, and analysis in U.S. political and civil discourse and the policymaking process."
RAND Corporation
Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981; Gibson, C. Ben; Cherney, Samantha
2020
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Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone-Enhanced Surveillance Programs
From the Document: "Dozens of countries, including the United States, have been using mobile phone tools and data sources for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] surveillance activities, such as tracking infections and community spread, identifying populated areas at risk, and enforcing quarantine orders. These tools can augment traditional epidemiological interventions, such as contact tracing with technology-based data collection (e.g., automated signaling and record-keeping on mobile phone apps). As the response progresses, other beneficial technologies could include tools that authenticate those with low risk of contagion or that build community trust as stay-at-home orders are lifted. However, the potential benefits that COVID-19 mobile phone-enhanced public health ('mobile') surveillance program tools could provide are also accompanied by potential for harm. There are significant risks to citizens from the collection of sensitive data, including personal health, location, and contact data. People whose personal information is being collected might worry about who will receive the data, how those recipients might use the data, how the data might be shared with other entities, and what measures will be taken to safeguard the data from theft or abuse. The risk of privacy violations can also impact government accountability and public trust."
RAND Corporation
Boudreaux, Benjamin; DeNardo, Matthew A.; Denton, Sarah W. . . .
2020
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Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs
From the Description: "Public health officials around the world are struggling to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To contain the highly infectious disease, governments have turned to mobile phone surveillance programs to augment traditional public health interventions. These programs have been designed to track COVID-19 symptoms, map population movement, trace the contacts of infected persons, enforce quarantine orders, and authorize movement through health passes. Although these programs enable more-robust public health interventions, they also raise concerns that the privacy and civil liberties of users will be violated. In this report, the authors evaluate the short- and long-term privacy harms associated with the use of these programs--including political, economic, and social harms. They consider whether two potentially competing goals can be achieved concurrently: (1) the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID 19 and future public health crises, and (2) the protection of privacy and civil liberties."
RAND Corporation
Boudreaux, Benjamin; DeNardo, Matthew A.; Denton, Sarah W. . . .
2020
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Options for Ensuring Safe Elections: Preparing for Elections During a Pandemic
From the Description: "The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented a severe threat to state election plans in 2020 for primaries and for the general election. To conduct an election during a potentially continuing threat from COVID-19, states need to consider how to conduct voter registration and provide voting options. Several voting and registration options are available to states to ensure the safety of elections despite the pandemic. These options are outlined in this report, taking into account the factors that officials will have to examine in determining how to conduct the election safely; the advantages and challenges of each approach; and levels of risk regarding safety, integrity, access, and logistics. This report is part of RAND's Countering Truth Decay initiative, which is focused on restoring the role of facts, data, and analysis in U.S. political and civil discourse and the policymaking process."
RAND Corporation
Hodgson, Quentin E.; Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981; Garg, Anusree . . .
2020
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Leading During the Chaos of a Pandemic
From the Document: "As many of us celebrated the dawn of a new decade, the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic was beginning to take hold. Even though the state courts fortuitously participated in a pandemic summit last summer, none of us could be fully prepared for what was to come. The COVID-19 pandemic has since challenged courts in ways that we have not seen or could have imagined in our lifetimes, but the state courts' response to the challenges has been remarkable. As leaders charged with preparing and guiding the Texas judiciary through this pandemic and in our roles as members of the Conference of Chief Justices' and Conference of State Court Administrators' Pandemic Rapid Response Team, as well as the latest state court afflicted by a cyberattack, we have seen firsthand the challenges of disruption and have learned many lessons on how to lead during chaos."
National Center for State Courts
Hecht, Nathan L., 1949-; Slayton, David
2020?
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WHO COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Progress Report: 1 February to 30 June 2020
From the About: "WHO [World Health Organization] published the first COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan (SPRP) on 3 February, 2020. This report highlights the main points of progress that were made up to 30 June 2020 under the three objectives outlined in the SPRP: scaling up international coordination and support; scaling up country preparedness and response by pillar; and accelerating research and innovation. The report also discusses some of the key challenges faced so far, and provides an update on the resource requirements for the next phase of WHO's response as part of an unprecedented whole-of-UN approach to the pandemic."
World Health Organization
2020
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Managing the Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis: Policy Options for Relief and Restructuring
From the Executive Summary: "This note discusses policy options for managing the employment impacts of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis aimed at relief and restructuring. The relief phase corresponds to an initial COVID-19 phase when the health emergency dominates, lockdowns are common, and the focus is on saving lives, providing support to workers and households to manage the income shock and to firms to say afloat and, often retain workers; the restructuring phase, in turn, corresponds to a second phase when countries turn to implementing policies that set the stage for a resilient recovery through more targeted policies that balance the need for continued government support with the need to adapt to structural changes created by the crisis. The note pays attention to the labor market and institutional context of most low and middle-income countries where informality is large and where existing institutions often lack mechanisms to effectively reach businesses and workers in the informal economy. The note covers complementary policies aimed, in the relief phase, at: 1) Helping businesses survive and retain workers; 2) providing protection for those who do lose their jobs and see their livelihoods significantly affected; and 3) facilitating alternative employment and employability support for those who are out of work (collectively known as active labor market programs, ALMP). The note further differentiates between these relief responses and the restructuring response when countries start to reopen for businesses and policies need to aim to support firms' and workers' transition to a 'new normal', hopefully a 'better normal' that supports a resilient recovery."
World Bank Group
Carranza, Eliana; Farole, Thomas; Gentilini, Ugo . . .
2020
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Genomic Epidemiology Data Infrastructure Needs for SARS-CoV-2: Modernizing Pandemic Response Strategies
From the Description: "In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus related to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus that emerged from a bat reservoir in 2002. Within six months, this new virus--SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)--has spread worldwide, infecting at least 10 million people with an estimated 500,000 deaths. COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, was declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, there is no approved effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19, and it continues to spread in many countries. 'Genomic Epidemiology Data Infrastructure Needs for SARS-CoV-2: Modernizing Pandemic Response Strategies' lays out a framework to define and describe the data needs for a system to track and correlate viral genome sequences with clinical and epidemiological data. Such a system would help ensure the integration of data on viral evolution with detection, diagnostic, and countermeasure efforts. This report also explores data collection mechanisms to ensure a representative global sample set of all relevant extant sequences and considers challenges and opportunities for coordination across existing domestic, global, and regional data sources."
National Academies Press (U.S.)
2020
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Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic is - and is Not - Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has created an immense social, economic, and political disruption around the world and in the United States. As substantial proportions of the US population adjust to unemployment, reduced working hours, or working from home, they have also had to care for children who have been out of school for social distancing measures. Simultaneously, the realities of infection risk, mortality rates, and social distancing measures have increased strain on everyone trying to care for family members and other loved ones. Without family support, access to the usual paid and public care services, or subsidized care supports, Americans are facing overlapping risks and challenges when developing care and safety strategies. Within these new constraints, the authors of this study set out to answer: 'During the COVID-19 pandemic, who has been doing the unpaid care and domestic work, and at what expense?'"
Promundo-US; Oxfam America; MenCare (Organization)
Heilman, Brian; Bernardini, María Rosario Castro; Pfeifer, Kimberly
2020
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Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR): Concept Note Template
From the Document: "'This Intra-Action Review (IAR) concept note is a document that clearly defines the project as agreed by all stakeholders. The purpose of the concept note is to outline the key elements of the IAR for its preparation and conduct. In the concept note, the scope, objectives and date of this review should be clearly defined. The concept note should also provide an overview of the key participants, methodologies, proposed budget, and sets out the roles and responsibilities of the review team. The concept note is used as the key reference document during all phases of the project, from the planning, material development to evaluation.'"
World Health Organization
2020?
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Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR): Facilitator's Manual
From the Background: "An Intra-Action Review (IAR) is a qualitative review of actions taken so far to respond to an emergency to identify best practices, lessons and gaps in a national public health response. IAR relies primarily on the personal experience and perceptions of individuals involved in the response - to assess what worked and what did not, why and how to improve. Facilitation of an IAR can be a challenging task. Discussions during an IAR can be very dynamic and energetic. Therefore, it is the facilitator's role to keep the discussion on track towards agreed objectives, to ensure that all voices are heard and to ensure that key themes are analysed sufficiently to identify underlying factors."
World Health Organization
2020?
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COVID-19: Revenue Administration Implications, Potential Tax Administration and Customs Measures to Respond to the Crisis
From the Document: "This note brings together the thinking that is occurring in global and regional teams on governance and institutional approaches to dealing with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], with a focus on Revenue Administrations. It presents the governance and institutional reforms that could support Revenue administration responses to COVID-19. The pandemic will bring a new normal where work practices should change. Usually, shocks trigger responses, and one of the responses here could be automatization of tax and customs services over the medium term, and a massive acceleration in the use of digital and virtual technologies."
World Bank Group
2020
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Online and ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls During COVID-19
From the Introduction: "The brief highlights emerging trends and impacts of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] on online and ICT [Information and Communication Technology] facilitated violence against women and girls (VAWG). It provides examples of strategies put in place to prevent and respond to online/ ICT facilitated VAWG and makes recommendations on how different actors can best address this issue. It is a living document that draws upon the knowledge and experience of a wide range of experts who support solutions to end online VAWG and violence facilitated by ICTs."
UN Women
2020?
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Together Apart: The Psychology of COVID-19
From the Document: "As we write, at the start of May 2020, 4 million people have been infected with the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], over a quarter of a million have died and more than a third of the entire population of the planet is under some form of restriction of movement. It is the biggest health emergency of our generation. And yet, unless or until a vaccine is developed, or we discover medicines to treat the virus, our means of controlling the spread of infection depend on behavioural changes and hence upon human psychology. This is most obvious in the case of lockdown. While it is all very well to tell people that they must stay at home in order to flatten the curve of infection, the effectiveness of the policy depends on whether or not they do."
Sage Publications
Jetten, Jolanda; Reicher, Stephen; Haslam, S. Alexander . . .
2020
