Mis manos te enseñan (My hands teach you) was launched by the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) in response to the temporary closure of early childhood development (ECD) Services due to...
Type: BriefReport#: 152064Date: July 30, 2020Author:
Cerdan-Infantes, Pedro ;
Foschini, Laura Cristina Ochoa ;
Gutierrez Bernal, Marcela ;
Rodriguez, Juan Felipe Garcia
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. The Ministry of Education and Technical Education...
Type: BriefReport#: 152578Date: July 28, 2020Author:
Zayat, Nelly El
This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child, mother, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to design a prototype drought-contingent...
Type: BriefReport#: 151247Date: July 28, 2020Author:
Baez Ramirez, Javier Eduardo ;
Kshirsagar, Varun Sridhar ;
Skoufias, Emmanuel
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. The Japanese school curriculum includes both subjects...
Type: BriefReport#: 152583Date: July 27, 2020Author:
Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko
BBC Bitesize is a learner-focused online study support platform that serves as a repository with materials specifically created for the individual education systems and grades represented in UK education....
Type: BriefReport#: 152567Date: July 22, 2020Author:
Lieshout, Koen van
More than 50 percent of the world’s population lives in cities; this number is predicted to grow to nearly 70 percent by 2050. Cities can be hubs of opportunity for both men and women, offering inhabitants...
Type: BriefReport#: 185404Date: July 21, 2020Author:
World Bank
Early learning experiences promote child development and help children get prepared for school, providing children with a foundation for learning that can last into primary school and well beyond. Evidence...
Type: BriefReport#: 151024Date: July 21, 2020Author:
Hossain, Najmul ;
Kamto Sonke, Kevin ;
Khondker, Hosneara ;
Molotsky, Adria ;
Nahar, Zannatun ;
Rahman, A. F. M. Azizur ;
Spier, Elizabeth
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a deep and potentially long-term human development crisis with far reaching consequences. Even before COVID-19 caused unprecedented interruptions in education delivery around...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its negative economic effects create an urgent need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
Type: BriefReport#: 148538Date: July 21, 2020Author:
Bundervoet, Tom ;
Tefera, Girum Abebe ;
Wieser, Christina
This brief highlights how involving women in service design, tariff structures, and the water and sanitation workforce itself not only helps cities reap the benefits of women’s greater social and economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 185403Date: July 16, 2020Author:
World Bank
Transportation in Cambodia takes place predominantly by road, with significant urban-rural gaps in terms of road accessibility. Limited access to all-weather roads negatively affects food value chains...
As governments around the world struggle to piece together the most effective fiscal response to counter the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, some are facing constraints imposed by...
COCAP’s Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) biweekly covers the incidents related to gender-based violence (GBV) and COVID-19 from July 1 to15, 2020. From July 1 to 15, 2020, COCAP’s Nepal Peace Monitoring...
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level survey to provide quantitative evidence of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Myanmar. The nationally representative survey included firms spanning a wide range...
Some key finds from this "living paper" include : Global COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases continue to rise, but so do social protections responses to the pandemic. Social assistance accounts for most of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 150808Date: July 10, 2020Author:
Almenfi, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi ;
Gentilini, Ugo ;
Lopez, Ana Veronica ;
Zafar, Usama
To track the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on labor markets and household coping strategies, a rapid phone survey was implemented on a representative sample of households living in poor and slum areas...
To track the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on labor markets and household coping strategies, a rapid phone survey was implemented on a representative sample of households living in poor and slum areas...
Type: BriefReport#: 162815Date: July 10, 2020Author:
Carazo, Luz ;
Genoni, Maria Eugenia ;
Krishnan, Nandini
To track the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on labor markets and household coping strategies, a rapid phone survey was implemented on a representative sample of households living in poor and slum areas...
Type: BriefReport#: 162815Date: July 10, 2020Author:
Carazo, Luz ;
Genoni, Maria Eugenia ;
Krishnan, Nandini
This brief presents the main findings from the first of eight rounds of a nationally representative survey of 1,500 randomly selected households in all states and regions of Myanmar. The surveys were undertaken...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
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