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Evidence Reviews

Evidence Review: COVID-19 Recovery in South Asian Urban Informal Settlements

This evidence review highlights local responses, grassroots efforts, and challenges around COVID-19 recovery within urban informal settlements in South Asia. It focuses on specific examples from Karachi, Pakistan and Mumbai, India to inform policy responses for COVID-19 recovery and future…
SSHAP
2022
UN0455652
Evidence Reviews
UNICEF India/2021/Kuldeep Rohilla
Briefings

Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India arbnhine

Best data practice recommendations for the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response.
SSHAP
2021
Infographics

COVID-19: Impacts of the Pandemic on Vulnerable Communities in India

How have existing inequalities and vulnerabilities affected India’s response?
SSHAP
2020
UNICEF Ethiopia/2017/Zerihun Sewunet
Journal Article

COVID-19 and pastoralism: reflections from three continents

How have COVID-19 disease control measures affected mobility and production practices, marketing opportunities, land control, labour relations, local community support and socio-political relations with the state and other settled agrarian or urban populations? This article reflects on five diverse cases…
Routledge
UNICEF/Panjwani
Evidence Reviews

In-Focus: COVID-19, Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Recovery in India guhi

How COVID-19 has intersected with and multiplied existing uncertainties faced by different vulnerable groups and communities in India
SSHAP
2020
UNICEF/UNI88943/Purushotham
Evidence Reviews

Health Shocks and Coping Strategies. State Health Insurance Scheme of Andhra Pradesh, India

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health insurance…
UNU-WIDER
2014
UNICEF/UN038738/Romana
Briefings

Is the Health System Response Out of Sync with the Demands of the Islanders in the Indian Sundarbans?

Five years ago, a mid-summer nightmare named Aila crashed on the Sundarbans with murderous fury and wreaked destruction beyond repair. On May 25, 2009 the tropical cyclone hit the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh with a wind speed of 110…
IDS
2014
UNICEF/UN034594/Afonso
Background Reports

Looking Upstream: Enhancers of Child Nutritional Status in post-Flood Rural Settings

Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in many developing countries, yet we have little understanding of preventive strategies for effective coping in these circumstances. Education has been recently highlighted as key to reduce the societal impacts…
PeerJ
2016
UNICEF/UN047154/Mackenzie
Evidence Reviews

Multiple Shocks, Coping and Welfare Consequences: Natural Disasters and Health Shocks in the Indian Sundarbans

Based on a household survey in Indian Sundarbans hit by tropical cyclone Aila in May 2009, this study tests for evidence and argues that health and climatic shocks are essentially linked forming a continuum and with exposure to a marginal…
PLOS
2014
UNICEF/UNI43619/Bannon
Background Reports

Famine in the Twentieth Century

More than 70 million people died in famines during the 20th century. This paper compiles excess mortality estimates from over 30 major famines and assess the success of some parts of the world – China, the Soviet Union, and more…
IDS
2000
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