We are working to save lives and protect livelihoods within poor and vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our objective is to save lives and protect livelihoods within poor and vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are advising on evidence-based approaches specific to each region’s capabilities and needs. This page describes our COVID-19 work and provides resources, which we hope will help others in their response efforts.
We are providing rapid, remote data collection and phone-based surveys to support COVID-19 response and interrupted survey efforts.
22 October 2021
3 April 2020
8 June 2020
GhanaWe are conducting health facility surveys in rural areas to inform COVID-related health commodities and the use of manless drone delivery. We are also advising on evidence-based approaches to remote education including radio learning, interactive television instruction, and online learning via web-based instruction for the Ministry of Education. MalawiWe are supporting targeted economic response efforts for high-need populations by identifying the highest-risk areas for COVID-19 infections and deaths. In addition, we are advising the government to reroute existing cash transfer and social protection programs to reach populations made more vulnerable by COVID-19. We are working with our counterparts at the Ministry of Social Welfare.
South AfricaIn collaboration with the National Development Agency (NDA), we have created a policy brief on promoting healthy behaviors and social protection to vulnerable populations. The brief has been shared with the Department of Social Development to inform decision-making on COVID-19 response efforts.
Using our Data on Demand platform, we are conducting rapid and responsive phone surveys to inform the Government of India on COVID-19 knowledge, behavior change, and economic effects. We are collecting data from 37 high-need districts across eight states in India, which represent 80 million of India’s poorest residents. These results are and will be informing policy decisions of key government officials on economic relief and national behavior change communication strategies.
We have performed a rapid evidence review on social distancing measures and economic support measures for the Department of Health (DOH), which has directly contributed to the government’s social distancing efforts in March.
In addition, we are conducting a rapid phone survey in Parañaque City to understand low-income citizens’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices on COVID-19, their non-COVID health concerns, and the socio-economic effects of the lockdown. The results will be used by the DOH’s COVID-19 Task Force to improve COVID-19 policy responses. We are also providing further support to the DOH to help inform future decisions, such as when to reopen schools.
IDinsight is conducting an impact evaluation with GiveDirectly to understand the effects of cash transfers on refugees and surrounding communities.
IDinsight worked with the government of Delhi to transform its COVID-19 response.
We work together with the government of India to inform COVID-19 response efforts.
Together with UNICEF, IDinsight tested and evaluated nudges to change hand-washing behavior in the Philippines.
2 February 2021
8 September 2021
27 December 2020
10 August 2021