This policy brief offers ways the World Bank can standardize refugee inclusion across COVID-19 responses and continue to leverage financing for more inclusive national policies. The brief features case studies on Chad, Jordan, and Pakistan to spotlight different levels of inclusion across World Bank-funded COVID-19 response plans.

The IRC reports that, without drastic action, the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 will suspend global progress toward ending hunger by at least five years. 

This report is for humanitarians and seeks to deepen the current gender analysis available by encompassing learning from global gender data available for the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The IRC finds conflict-affected and fragile countries face not only the direct health impacts of COVID-19 but also secondary havoc to already fragile humanitarian, economic, security and political environments.

THE ESSENTIALS FOR RESPONDING TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS DURING AND AFTER COVID-19

Roughly 1 billion children worldwide are out of school due to school closures related to COVID-19. Children in humanitarian settings face a double crisis as the health emergency disrupts their opportunities to learn, develop and thrive. Ensuring children can continue to learn during the pandemic, no matter their access to technology, must be central to the COVID-19 response in fragile contexts.

A new IRC report brings forward the voices of 852 refugee and displaced women living in some of the most underfunded and forgotten humanitarian crises in 15 African countries to learn how the pandemic and the humanitarian response to it has affected their safety.

A new report published by the IRC and written by the Economist Intelligence Unit details how an absence of global leadership, insufficient funding, and lack of coordination during the pandemic has impacted the world’s most vulnerable.

Catalyzing the U.S. Response to COVID-19 in Humanitarian Settings

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide have increased policy support for digital financial services, including by waiving fees and allowing remote onboarding to both allow for greater social distancing and support resilience in the midst of a major economic crisis.This research report - based on findings in refugee contexts in Jordan, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia - finds that digital services such as mobile money can in theory be more accessible for refugees than standard bank accounts, in practice refugees continue to face barriers.