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How the pandemic is bringing the small manufacturing revolution to the development sector By Kuldeep Bandhu Aryal and Nishat Tasnim   This piece was originally published here in NextBillion. It has been reposted below. Rina is one of the nearly 50,000 community health workers trained by BRAC, a global development organization based in Bangladesh. She serves...

Let’s begin with the good news: The international community has taken unprecedented measures to respond to the humanitarian crises triggered by COVID-19. By Lindsay Coates   This piece was originally published here in NextBillion. It has been reposted below. Since March 2020, 212 countries and territories have enacted over 1,100 social protection measures to mitigate harm...

A pandemic of suffering follows on the heels of COVID-19 in poor countries, and children suffer most. By Nicholas Kristof   Below is en excerpt of a piece originally published in The New York Times. Click here to view the full piece. We think of Covid-19 as killing primarily the elderly around the world, but...

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, more and more people around the world are struggling during lockdowns and economic shutdowns. By Dr. Muhammad Musa   This piece was originally published here in The New Humanitarian. It has been reposted below. The coronavirus could nearly double the number of people facing acute hunger, according to the World Food...

BRAC’s Hasina Akhter shares insights from her work responding to COVID-19 in the largest refugee settlement in the world. By Hasina Akhter   This piece was originally published here in Devex. It has been reposted below. Addressing the needs of the largest refugee settlement in the world is daunting enough. Now, the challenge is compounded...