Results & Analysis

This page highlights results and analysis on the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in low- and lower-middle-income countries. We also feature selected articles on ensuring this evidence is used to improve the pandemic response and recovery. For a full list of studies with results, go here. To update an existing hub listing with results, contact us.

Publication Violencia en el hogar durante COVID-19 Durante la pandemia del COVID-19 la mayoría de países en el mundo establecieron medidas de confinamiento domiciliario.	Event Phone Surveys Using Random Digit Dialing: Lessons Learned from IPA’s Multi-Country RECOVR Surveys On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, IPA and the Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL) at Northwestern University held a webinar on rapid phone surveys.	Blog The Continued Impacts of COVID-19 in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso: Lessons from Round 2 of the RECOVR Survey IPA conducted the second round of the survey in Côte d’Ivoire from October 22nd to 30th, 2020, whereby the time the survey ended...
Study COVID-19’s Prevalence Among Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Forcibly displaced people often live in overcrowded camps in countries with struggling health systems, making this population highly vulnerable to COVID‐19.	Blog Are Mobile Payments Reaching Men and Women Equally? Latest Findings on How G2P Payments Are Working in Bangladesh In partnership with a2i, IPA has embarked on a multi-round monitoring survey to identify any challenges beneficiaries may experience with the newly digitized government-to-person (G2P) payment...	Blog A Phone Survey without Phones? Lessons in How to Reach Those without Access to Mobile Phones. IPA has been working with A2i, a branch of the Bangladesh government which helps to ensure access to public services, to help monitor the digitization process of government social support...
Blog RECOVR Roundup Vol. 25: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19 In this newest installment of our RECOVR Roundup series, we are sharing new findings and analysis from the RECOVR Research Hub and from our partner organizations, as well as links on what is...	Blog Research During a Pandemic: Leaner and Faster Poverty Measurement in the Time of COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing research projects around the world to move from face-to-face data collection to shorter, phone-based methods using SMS messages or voice calls. As research...	Blog Can a Telenovela Help Kids Stay in School during COVID-19? As COVID-19 hit Peru in March 2020, the government made the tough decision to close all schools and in-person classes. Since then, it has put in place a tremendous effort to provide the 8 million...
Blog Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 in Zambia: Insights from RECOVR 2 As part of IPA’s ongoing research around the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, we recently held...	Blog Giving People Cash During COVID: A Look at What We're Working On At IPA, we have been conducting a series of research projects on the targeted cash transfers and are highlighting recent research on social transfers and other related COVID-19 research on our...	Publication Increasing Immunization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries For the public health sector, the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines presents new challenges—a rapid timeline, targeting of adults, and, given limited initial supply, prioritization of high-risk...
Blog The Reach of the COVID-19 Crisis in Rwanda: Lessons from the RECOVR Survey During the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have worked to reduce prevalence as well as to mitigate the socioeconomic impact of lockdown and other measures that have slowed down economic activity. To...	RECOVR Study Vulnerability and Trust in the Aftermath of COVID-19 in Uganda COVID-19 has already disrupted community life and will surely alter community social dynamics for years to come.	RECOVR Study COVID-19 Among Rural Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: The PARLAP Phone Survey The COVID-19 pandemic hit the Peruvian Amazon in mid-March and sparked international concern about the well-being of the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of the region.
Blog Co-creating During a Crisis In the past months, we have worked with decision-makers from 10 different countries where IPA has a permanent presence to develop panel surveys to answer their most pressing questions. The process...	Study The Impacts of the Ingreso Solidario program to confront the Covid-19 crisis in Colombia How do cash transfers support newly-designated vulnerable populations and informal workers during an economic crisis?	Study Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Target Emergency Cash Transfers in Togo Since March 2020, a team of researchers¹...
RECOVR Study Cash Transfers During a Pandemic: Evidence from a Kenyan Slum This study will deliver cash grants to female microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya during the COVID-19 outbreak.	Publication Vacunación contra el COVID-19 en Colombia: opinión pública sobre su priorización y distribución La emergencia generada por la pandemia del COVID-19 y las medidas de contención tomadas por las autoridades han generado consecuencias a nivel global, tanto de salud pública como en términos...	RECOVR Study The Other Virus: How Gangs and Organized Crime are Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis In the sprawling informal peripheries of cities throughout the developing world, enhancing state capacity may be critical for an effective COVID response, and hence to macro-level public-health,...
Event RECOVR Webinar Series: Bringing Evidence to COVID-19 Policy Responses in the Global South With our partners, IPA is hosting the RECOVR Webinar Series: Bringing Evidence to COVID-19 Policy Responses in the Global South. In this series, we are sharing new research findings and policy...	Publication Key Decisions for COVID-19 Social Protection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries The expansion of social protection programs has an important role to play in pandemic response.	RECOVR Study Listening to Young Lives at Work: Impact of the Global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam Young Lives longitudinal survey began in 2001, with two cohorts, one born in 2000 (8,000 children) and one born in 1994 (4,000 children).
RECOVR Study The Effects of the COVID-19 Shock on Young Firms, Young Workers and Young Vocational Students Part 1: Aims at generating evidence on how young firms and young workers are coping with the current situation.	Event Evidence to Impact in Crisis: How Have We Measured Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic? This event, co-hosted by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), explored questions about what good partnerships between researchers and policymakers look...	Blog Considerations for Doing Intimate Partner Violence Research in the Time of Coronavirus As women around the globe are increasingly quarantined, they are also exposed to increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV).
RECOVR Study Accelerating Changes in Norms about Social Distancing to Combat COVID-19 in Mozambique Social distancing is one of the most important health behaviors limiting the spread of COVID‐19, but people may practice it insufficiently for multiple reasons: they may not believe or realize...	Publication Seguridad Alimentaria y Protección Social en Colombia durante el COVID-19 La pandemia del COVID-19 ha tenido un impacto económico severo en el mundo.	Blog Policy-Relevant Rigor: What Governments Need From Researchers for Effective Crisis Response IPA is building on existing relationships and responding to dozens of policy partners to ensure that in our case, the answer is “yes.” We are working hard to understand exactly what questions...
Publication The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Learning and Development in Ghana The COVID 19 pandemic and the associated social and economic downturn are undermining children's educational and developmental outcomes, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.	RECOVR Study State Engagement with Religious Leaders for Effective COVID-19 Crisis Response The goal of this study is to test whether outreach with religious leaders in Pakistan can enhance state effectiveness at dealing with the COVID-19 public health crisis.	Blog Focusing on the Foundations: Education in the Time of COVID-19 A joint statement by the Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, J-PAL, Pratham, Teaching at the Right Level Africa, and Young 1ove.

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