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Journal articles on the topic "Covid 19 impacts on projects"
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Araya, Felipe, and Leonardo Sierra. "Influence between COVID-19 Impacts and Project Stakeholders in Chilean Construction Projects." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 9, 2021): 10082. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810082.
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The construction sector has been heavily impacted by COVID-19 due to the restricted conditions required by construction projects to perform physical activities. Given this context, it is of interest for the industry to identify the impacts that COVID-19 has had on the development of construction projects. However, little is known regarding how the impacts of COVID-19 have affected multiple stakeholders in construction projects and whether there is some interaction among such impacts. This study aims to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and their influence among different construction stakeholders (i.e., engineers and managers, workers, suppliers). This study was enabled by 40 semi-structured interviews that were performed with stakeholders in construction projects in Chile. Content analysis from the interviews led to the identification of categories of impacts and stakeholders, to the development of a cognitive map of the impacts, and to the application of correspondence analysis. Fifteen categories of impacts were identified, and six construction stakeholders were identified as having been impacted by COVID-19. Identifying the causes and effects of the impacts felt by multiple stakeholders revealed that these impacts interacted among each other. Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on construction stakeholders may facilitate the development of effective mitigation strategies to reduce COVID-19 impacts on the construction sector.
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Rani, Hafnidar A., Widya Soviana, and Rahimi A. Rahman. "Dampak Covid-19 Terhadap Pelaksanaan Pekerjaan Konstruksi Multi Years." Siklus : Jurnal Teknik Sipil 8, no. 1 (April 11, 2022): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/siklus.v8i1.8627.
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The Covid-19 has impacted all human aspects. One of the impacts is the construction sector for infrastructure construction become an important component supporting national economic development. The problem of the study was whether the quality, cost and time factors of multi-year construction project work implementation is influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The study aimed to find out how much Covid-19 pandemic influencing the quality, cost and time of multi-year construction projects implementation. The study methods used are a quantitative approach method by using Guttman scale questionnaire instrument and qualitative approach method by using interviews. The sampling technique used is quota sampling from project implementing elements consisting of project owners, contractors and construction management consultants on construction and revitalization project of Balohan Port. The study case selection because the project was indicated impacted by Covid-19 pandemic. Regression analysis resulted that if there is no change to the quality, cost and time variables, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the multi-year projects implementation was 0.855 units. Based on the R square value, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on multi-year projects was influenced by the quality, cost and time variables as 65% while 35% is influenced by other factors. The quality of multi-year projects was affected by disruption of project implementation activities, the cost was affected by additional costs due to health protocols and the delays was affected by waiting time because of due to materials scarcity arrived in the project site. It is concluded that the quality, cost and time variables impact Covid-19 pandemic in which the cost factor become the most affected to the implementation of multi-year projects as 74.50% as mean percentage
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Bin Mohamed@Arifin, Mohd Amizan, Muhamad Fahim Hizami Bin Azmi, and Syahirah Intan Binti Mohd Sheffie. "COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impacts and Prospects in the Malaysian Construction Projects." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1067, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 012050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012050.
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Abstract COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world globally. To prevent and reduce the virus from spreading, many countries have implemented lockdown, including Malaysia. Restrictions on people movements include social distancing and virtual working. These have impacted the construction industry because it needs real-time inspections at the site and on-site work. The negative impacts on construction projects during lockdowns such as project delay, lack of raw material, shortage of labour, and loss of income would increase the probability of implementations on remote working, Artificial Intelligence, increase in Force Majeure Claims, and requirement of the local worker to face against COVID-19 situation in the new norm. Therefore, this research is essential to be explored to obtain more details about the current construction industry: the impacts of pandemic COVID-19 on construction projects in Malaysia and the prospects of construction projects post COVID-19 as mitigation strategies to survive this pandemic. This pilot study was conducted in Klang Valley (Selangor and Kuala Lumpur). The respondents were directly involved in the projects, i.e., project managers, engineers, and site supervisors. The sample population was registered for construction projects in 2020, obtained from Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). Collected data from the questionnaire were analysed using Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS). Consequentially, the results of this research will benefit Malaysia’s construction industry in justifying the impacts of COVID-19 on construction projects. Hence, offering alternatives to sustain and prepare the construction industry with unexpected circumstances that could happen during this unprecedented pandemic.
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Hansen, Seng, Susy F. Rostiyanti, Rizaldi Rizaldi, and Clara Andjarwati. "Quantity Surveyors’ Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mixed Method Approach." Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum 7, no. 2 (May 27, 2021): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jcef.60715.
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The COVID-19 outbreak began at the end of 2019, and has evolved to a pandemic threatening various industries’ sustainability. Decisive actions have been taken to tackle the pandemic’s spread, however, various impacts continue to be felt by many industries, including the construction industry. This paper therefore focuses on the COVID-19 outbreak’s impact on Quantity Surveyors’ (QS) construction projects and activities, as a key profession in the industry. A mixed method approach, questionnaire survey followed by expert interviews, was adopted. Subsequently, 199 valid responses for analysis were obtained from the questionnaire distribution, using descriptive statistics and Significance Index. Furthermore, qualitative data were acquired through semi-structured interviews with five experts, and analyzed using a structured thematic analysis. According to the results, 56.78% of respondents experienced project slowdowns, 13.57% experienced project suspensions or terminations, and 12.56% experienced cost overruns. Most respondents acknowledged the pandemic had present changes to projects (84.92%), in the form of changes in organization structure, work culture, technological application, and project objectives. Meanwhile, the Significance Index has successfully established an 11-factors ranking, regarding the pandemic’s impact on QS activities, with impact on the overall project completion as the most profound impact followed by impacts on project scheduling, supply chain, tendering, cost controlling, and claim management. This study’s qualitative and quantitative findings tend to be in accordance, thus, providing some fundamental insights regarding the COVID-19 outbreak’s impact on the construction industry, including direct impacts on project sustainability, technology adoption, and project resiliency issues. In addition, this study also contributes to scientific knowledge by discussing the issues and trends of work culture changes in QS professional activities.
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Seboni, Lone, and Kealeboga Moreri. "A Practical Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Integer Linear Programming for Fuzzy Front-End Project Selection." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (October 27, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6361847.
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Purpose. This study applies a novel approach that integrates AHP with integer linear programming (ILP), to address a gap in management literature regarding the need to consider both sustainability and COVID-19 impact on project selection, with a view to avoid implementation failures. Design/Methodology/Approach. A case study approach involving experts in semiconductor manufacturing was conducted, using the Delphi method, to determine weights of various criteria, including additional new criteria associated with both sustainability and COVID-19 issues considered in the selection decision for four candidate projects. Findings. Integrated results revealed two projects to be selected (projects 1 and 3). Whilst AHP results revealed more information about the ranking of all four projects, the ILP model results complemented the findings by indicating that 2 projects (projects 1 and 3) should be selected, taking account of not only resource constraints but also sustainability issues and customer behavior towards selected projects, influenced by COVID-19 impact. Originality/Value. The value lies in not only proposing a novel framework that integrates AHP with ILP but also adding to our understanding of the importance to incorporate both sustainability and COVID-19 impacts on semiconductor industry project selection, both of which have significance for the industry in terms of maximizing implementation success for selected projects.
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Annette, Lucy. "COVID-19 health research in low-income countries." Impact 2021, no. 6 (July 15, 2021): 4–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2021.6.4.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected different countries in different ways and to varying extents. Differences in geography and population, as well as the different health response of respective governments, are factors that play a role in the impact of the virus. Unfortunately, the quality of healthcare systems also plays a key role and there are disparities in healthcare quality across countries. In an initiative led by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), 12 health research projects across more than 18 countries are seeking to reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across low- and middle-income countries. Topics include transmission and infection control, how people in different settings are affected by the virus and long-term outcomes, including the risk of neurological problems. The projects have been informed by the World Health Organization COVID-19 Global Research Roadmap, which features four priority research topics relating to the virus: 'epidemiology, clinical management, infection prevention and control, and health system responses'. One project is looking at the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of older adults in Peru and another is looking at how the virus affected the brain. A project called the DOMINO Study is investigating the indirect effects of COVID-19 on tuberculosis and HIV care in Indonesia and a project based in a low-resource community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is working to better understand SARS-CoV-2 in children.
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Thapa, Priyanka. "Assessment of Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Nepal’s Construction Sector based on Selected Construction Projects." Journal of Advanced Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering 08, no. 01 (April 13, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2393.8307.202101.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a global pandemic as declared by World Health Organization (WHO) is causing severe impacts in almost all aspects of life in Nepal. In response to this pandemic, Nepal Government announced a country-wide lockdown from 24th March 2020 and ended on 21st July 2020. Coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented event affecting almost every aspect of the construction sector in Nepal. Hence, this study was carried out to assess the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on Nepal’s construction sector based on selected construction projects. For this purpose, a case study of five ongoing construction projects was taken into account and questionnaires were distributed to responsible officials (client, consultant and contractor) of those projects. This study intended to find out the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on supply-demand trend analysis, cost and time of construction projects. Besides, this study also intends to find the contractual issues and claims associated with COVID-19 lockdown. The study reveals that COVID-19 caused serious disruption to the supply chain. Subsequently, project cost and time increases due to uncertainty regarding the availability of subcontractors/ suppliers/labour. The impact of COVID-19 lockdown however varies with the nature, scale and size of the project. Besides, the study also implies that contractual disputes are likely to increase due to lockdown. Each contract and its conditions have to be carefully analyzed to determine a party’s specific entitlement. There is uncertainty as to when the situation becomes normal and construction work can be carried out with optimum efficiency.
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Gamil, Yaser, and Abdulsalam Alhagar. "The Impact of Pandemic Crisis on the Survival of Construction Industry: A Case of COVID-19." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 11, no. 4 (July 10, 2020): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/mjss-2020-0047.
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Since the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic, many countries have declared a complete national lockdown after a remarkable spike in COVID 19 cases. These decisions have restricted the movement of people and resulted in a complete shutdown of many businesses across many sectors. The construction industry, as a significant growth driver of the economy with no exception, has also been completely shut down. All the developments and projects were postponed until further notice. It is, therefore, a prudent to address the impact of the pandemic at the outset and end of the crisis to prepare for any future possibility and gain lessons for plans. This study aims to investigate the effect of COVID 19 on the construction industry's survival. The impacts and fallout have been determined and evaluated through the recruitment of construction experts and practitioners. The impacts have been classified into different groups which include economic, human resources. The study implied two methods include exploratory interviews and questionnaire surveys. The study found the most prominent impacts of COVID 19 are the suspension of projects, labour impact and job loss, time overrun, cost overrun, and financial implications. The findings of this study shed light on the consequences of the sudden occurrence of pandemic and raise awareness of the most critical impacts which can’t be overlooked. The findings also help project stakeholders to realise the sequences of the sudden epidemic and prepare for the worst-case scenario during the planning stage of the construction projects.
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Hui, Lo Chun, Geoffrey Tan Kay Meng, Hiew Li Jue, Eden Voon Wu Qian, Ateeb Hassan, Hadi Nabipour Afrouzi, and Kamyar Mehranzamir. "Impact Of Covid-19 on Renewable Energy Sector and Lessons Learned: A Case Study on Malaysia." Future Energy 1, no. 3 (November 15, 2022): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.55670/fpll.fuen.1.3.5.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been destructive in various sectors of Malaysia. In the renewable energy sector, Malaysia thrives in harvesting solar energy, biomass energy, and hydro energy, but despite years of development, the impacts of COVID-19 on these fields remain significant. This paper reviewed, analyzed, and summarized the effects of COVID-19 on the renewable energy sector in Malaysia. According to reviews, solar energy projects experience postponements as the import of solar panels is halted. At the same time, biomass saw its productivity reduced as workers were sent home as a measure to curb COVID-19. The same can be seen with the hydroelectric dams, where a single case may form a cluster which, once again, puts the entire project on hold. These are just some examples of the disastrous impact of COVID-19. However, there are positive impacts as well. The reduction in CO2 emission and the investment in the renewable energy sector once fossil fuel drops its price are the same example testimonies. The future of the renewable energy sector after COVID-19 and the lessons learned from the impacts of COVID-19 are reviewed and presented in this paper as well.
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Rani, Hafnidar A., Abdelrahman M. Farouk, K. S. Anandh, Saud Almutairi, and Rahimi A. Rahman. "Impact of COVID-19 on Construction Projects: The Case of India." Buildings 12, no. 6 (June 4, 2022): 762. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings12060762.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, including India, especially in the construction sector. The study aims to identify, compare, and analyze the critical pandemic impacts (CPI) on construction projects in India. To achieve this, 40 interviews with industry professionals, are followed by a systematic review to identify the CPI. The data collected was used to develop a survey, sent to industry professionals all over India, with a return of 92 valid responses. The data were analyzed using reliability analysis, mean score ranking, overlap analysis, agreement analysis, and correlation analysis. The overall critical pandemic impact includes ‘labor scarcity,’ ‘supply chain disruption,’ ‘decreased construction productivity,’ ‘increased project financing rejection rate,’ and ‘reduced foreign investment in the construction industry.’ The findings could aid authorities and policymakers in taking suitable actions toward solving the current CPI in India. Project managers and owners could consider the current CPI in order to formulate better plans. Overcoming CPI could lead to an economic leap in India.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Covid 19 impacts on projects"
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Telin, Steven, and Nebil Esmail. "Managing Remote Projects During a Crisis : Game-development and Manufacturing Projects Response to COVID-19." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185058.
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Although projects and project management has grown to be increasingly influential in all aspects of business operations, project success and efficiency is often harder to measure and arguably harder to execute. Many projects may often change the course of intent, exceed the initial budget, or even finish later than expected. This causes a great debate on the different ways to efficiently manage projects and what actually works best in practise. According to different scholars, some sides mention that traditional methods where planning is completed at the very beginning is the most efficient way to manage projects, while others mention the use of adaptive methods where planning is not ‘set in stone’. Project management as an academic field is relatively well explored, however as the COVID-19 continues to set restrictions to stop the spread of the virus, academic research to increase the empirical data on project management during the pandemic is needed. This study aims to contribute to this academic field to understand the reasoning behind project management adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this study will aim to gain understanding to the why’s and how’s of common themes regarding how projects have adapted. The industries this study will focus on will be the Swedish game-development industry and the Swedish heavy industry. Based on a literature search and review on project management evaluations methods, leadership styles, risk and crisis management, and project management methodologies, semi-structured interviews took place with CEO’s, project managers, and other senior managers in decision making positions, representing a total of six firms with three from each industry. The respondents were categorized based on their industry and if their project was completed or not. The analysis showed practical similarities in the implementations between projects, such as hygienic aspects in the workplace, remote working, and other practical implementations from the guidelines of the Swedish health authorities. The analysis also found the common theme of project responses being external threat recognition followed by the adaptation of remote working, the expansion of communication and finally the closure of the project. the analysis did however find smaller variations depending on the size of the firm and industry, such that smaller projects did not always need a firm wide remote working unit and that heavy industry projects leaned towards traditional project management methodologies with hints of agile methods, while the game-development projects quite explicitly used agile methods. While the study does contribute to the academic field of project management with empirical data and may provide guidance in future pandemics and similar situations, further research is needed in order to gain a full understanding on the pandemics effect on projects in Sweden, especially through a study covering a larger study size.
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Hahn, Sejin, and Sarafat Hossain. "Impacts of COVID-19: Funding Business Operations and Adapting Marketing Strategies." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185101.
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Purpose -- Given the enduring COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis set out to reveal an updated perspective of the service-oriented small business experience, particularly in their access and choice of financial resources to fund operations and adapt marketing strategy. By the time this study started, it was clear which businesses had been rising with the new tides of swelled categorical demand vs. those that were persevering like embers in a 'slow burn' state of low income against persistent expenses. Therefore, the research sought to compare the results of marketing experimentation with current plans for increasing resiliency, or enabling robust growth, coming out of the pandemic. Methodology / Design / Approach -- As the quantitative understanding of the business impacts had been generalized, a closer look was needed into what entrepreneurs and small business leaders were thinking about in the present moment, by reflecting on factors for survival / thriving, until this point and going forward. To capture this wide range of perspectives and strategies in formulation, qualitative methods with a diverse set of businesses were selected. Theoretically, customer-centric marketing principles were employed, focusing on three intangible firm resources (of the resource-based view): 1) Stakeholder Relationships; 2) Brand Equity and 3) Knowledge / Capabilities. Findings -- With the realization that adequate financing is inaccessible and government support perceivably unreliable, small businesses naturally tested several emergent strategies within the limits of their available resources. During times of crisis and radical change, as entire industry ecosystems are reassuming their fundamentals, companies have the opportunity to maximize and develop their resources, in alignment with differing and changing customer demands. Practical Implications -- While the recommendations are tailored for small business and optimistically many, cities are also suggested to take a resource-based VRIO (Value, Rarity, Imitability and Organizability) approach to supporting the economic value and potential of their retail, restaurant and service-oriented business communities. Originality / Value -- Applying a modern customer-centric view for the small business resources most potentially valuable and developable, this research contributes a unique crisis-borne framework, which may be conceptually used as a hotbed -- by both internal and external (i.e. municipalities, partners and customers) stakeholders -- for ideating novel marketing strategies and supporting business growth / resilience. Keywords: Adaptation, Crisis Management, Financial Liquidity, Access to Capital, Government Aid, Alternative Finance, Marketing Strategy, Resource-based View (RBV), Customer-Centric, Stakeholder View, Brand, Authenticity, Knowledge, Capabilities, Marketing Management, Marketing-Finance Interface, Paid Marketing, Organic Marketing, Customer Loyalty, Community and Decision-Making
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Thorstensson, Esra. "The impact of Working from Home on productivity during COVID-19 : A Survey with IT Project Managers." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84703.
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The world has been affected by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and many companies and organizations have adopted different type of strategies in terms of the workplace in all sectors around the world. Working from home practice has gained prominence as a part of quarantine measures to curb the spread of the disease since the beginning of the outbreak. This abrupt change has a dramatic influence on the business life and employees have been struggling to adapt to their new way of working. Therefore their productivity has changed, too depending on various factors at their new workplace: home. Working from home is only possible with the use of information technology. Information technology makes it possible for the business life to continue owing to its solutions. Owing to the solutions of information technology, employees can communicate with each other and organizations and complete their tasks by sending and receiving written, audio and visual information. It is crucial for everyone’s sake that the employees working in information technology work efficiently, particularly in pandemic times. The key role of their success is played by their managers and coordinators. Therefore, this thesis focuses on IT project managers and coordinators’ productivity. The purpose of this study is to list the factors, as benefits and challenges, influencing the productivity of IT project managers and project coordinators working from home during COVID-19 pandemic and provide recommendations to the project managers and project coordinators and also public and private organizations and companies which prefer to continue working from home to increase their productivity. In this study, qualitative research method and descriptive statistics concerning the selected benefits and challenges are used via a self- administered digital survey responded by 46 project managers/coordinators. It is concluded that working from home due to COVID-19 pandemic has both positive and negative influences on productivity of the IT project managers/project coordinators. Many benefits, such as sleeping longer hours and being able to focus at home without open-office distractions and many challenges, such as being distracted by house chores and being disturbed by family members have been identified as a result of the survey. Respondents contributed to the study further by their valuable recommendations to public and private organizations and also to other IT project managers/coordinators who work from home during the pandemic to increase their productivity. The recommendations to other PM/PC are concerned with routine and discipline, work-life balance, breaks and doing other things, workspace, people around and communication. The recommendations to organizations, on the other hand, are concerned with various types of support, respecting time, flexibility about time, trust, communication and acceptance as family. Both the findings and recommendations may help IT project managers/coordinators and their employers to develop a more comprehensive vision in terms of increasing their productivity while working from home during the pandemic.
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Fissinger, Mary Rose. "Behavioral dynamics of public transit ridership in Chicago and impacts of COVID-19." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129000.
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Thesis: S.M. in Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176).
Public transportation ridership analysis in the United States has traditionally centered around the tracking and reporting of the count of trips taken on the system. Such analysis is valuable but incomplete. This work presents a ridership analysis framework that keeps the rider, rather than the trip, as the fundamental unit of analysis, aiming to demonstrate to transit agencies how to leverage data sources already available to them in order to capture the various behavior patterns existing on their transit network and the relative prevalence of each at any given moment and over time. In examining year over year changes as well as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on ridership, this analysis highlights the complex landscape of behaviors underlying trip counts. It keeps riders' mobility patterns and needs as the focal point and, in doing so, creates a more direct line between results of analysis and policies geared toward making the system better for its riders.
This work makes use of two primary methodological tools: the k-means clustering algorithm to identify behavioral patterns, and linear and spatial regression to model metrics of urban mobility across the city. The former is chosen because of its established history in the literature as a technique for classifying smart cards, and because its simplicity and efficiency in clustering high numbers of cards made it an attractive option for a framework that could be adopted and customized by various transit agencies. Spatial regression is employed in conjunction with classic linear regression to capture spatial dependencies inherent in but often ignored in the modeling of urban mobility data.
Chapter 3 of this work identifies the behavioral dynamics underlying top-level ridership decreases between 2017 and 2018 on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and finds that riders decreasing the frequency with which they ride, rather than leaving the system, is the primary driver behind the loss of trips on the system, despite growth in the number of frequent riders using the system for commuting travel. The following chapter applies a similar framework to understand the precipitous ridership drop due to COVID-19 and discovers distinct responses on the part of two frequent rider groups, with peak rail riders abandoning the system at rates of 93% while half of off-peak bus riders continued to ride during the pandemic. Chapter 5 uses linear and spatial regression to model the percent change in trips due to COVID by census tract and finds that even when controlling for demographics, pre-pandemic behavior is predictive of the percent loss in trips.
Specifically, high rates of bus usage and transfers, along with pass usage, are associated with smaller drops in trips, while riding during the peak is predictive of larger decreases in trips. Chapter 6 presents preliminary thoughts on employing a spatial regression framework on high-dimensional data to learn urban mobility patterns. This work highlights the insights to be gained from an analysis framework that reveals the complex behavioral dynamics present on a transit network at any given time. It further connects these behaviors to other rider characteristics such as home location and response to the COVID-19 pandemic, painting a rich picture of an agency's riders with their existing data and allowing for informed, targeted policy creation. A key finding was that frequent, off-peak bus riders who frequently have to transfer are one of the largest groups of riders and the group most associated with continued ridership during the pandemic.
Future policies should recognize that this group uses the system when and where overall ridership is low, and direction of resources away from these parts of the system will disproportionately hurt riders who are most reliant on public transit and therefore have the most to gain from increased investment. The CTA should work in conjunction with other stakeholders to ensure that as public transit ridership recovers from the pandemic, attention is paid not only to those riders who need to be brought back onto the system, but also those who never left it.
by Mary Rose Fissinger.
S.M. in Transportation
S.M.inTransportation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Obrovac, Sandqvist Stina, and Linda Åberg. "A Study of How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Swedish SMEs’ Internal Communication." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45751.
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A popular area that has increased in interest within the literature of International Business has lately been devoted to the field of international small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Parallelly, the literature concerning uncertainties and crises has also grown, particularly regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In todays’ highly volatile and fast- changing business environment, managing a crisis is a task many organizations are used to. However, the subsequent consequences that certain crises entail are crucial for an organization to overcome as well as adapt to and handle for it to survive as an operating mechanism in the world market. The COVID-19 pandemic entails consequences never experienced before, therefore, the importance of researching the phenomenon becomes vital to develop ways for organizations, particularly international SMEs, to cope with the situation. For this reason, this study began by investigating Swedish SMEs, with international connections, with the purpose to discover how internal communication in SMEs occurs as well as how it is impacted by leadership and organizational climate during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducted six semi-structured interviews with managers and executives from six Swedish organizations within the industry and manufacturing sector. This thesis generated several interesting findings generating an enriched understanding of how and why internal communication during the COVID- 19 pandemic is important to manage for SMEs. The findings inform that internal communication is perceived as highly important by managers and executives to mitigate uncertainties, create a feeling of trust, and create or keep engagement within the firm. Further uncoverings indicate how leadership and organizational climate impact how internal communication occurs, is perceived, and practiced. In other words, leadership and organizational climate can be assumed to influence internal communication in various levels and are important to be aware of. In conclusion, the study has showcased that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the way that internal communication occurs and how it is impacted by both leadership and organizational climate are, within SMEs, intertwined. Moreover, it seems evident that internal communication, leadership, and organizational climate are, independently and interdependently, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which, in turn, impact how they interact.Ett sedan tidigare populärt område som den senaste tiden fått ett ökat intresse och som har uppmärksammats i litteratur inom internationellt företagande är små och medelstora företag (SMF). Parallellt med detta har även mängden litteratur avseende osäkerheter och kriser ökat, speciellt gällande pandemin av Coronavirussjukdom 2019 (COVID-19). I dagens flyktiga företagsmiljöer är krishantering en uppgift som många verksamheter har erfarenhet av. Trots detta är det avgörande för företag att ta sig igenom, anpassa sig till och hantera de konsekvenser som särskilda kriser kan leda till, för att kunna säkerställa sin överlevnad som fungerande mekanismer i en världsmarknad. Eftersom COVID-19 pandemin medför konsekvenser som tidigare aldrig upplevts blir det extra avgörande att undersöka detta för att ta fram och utveckla verktyg för hur företag, och specifikt SMFs, kan hantera dessa. Med detta som grund påbörjades arbetet med denna forskning genom att undersöka svenska SMF av internationell karaktär med ett syfte att utreda hur intern kommunikation inom SMF uppstår, så väl som hur den påverkas av ledarskap och företagsklimat under COVID-19 pandemin. Sex semi-strukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med chefer och managers från sex olika svenska företag inom industri - och tillverkningssektorn. Studien genererade ett flertal intressanta resultat som bidrog till en fördjupad förståelse av hur och varför intern kommunikation är viktigt att hantera för SMF under COVID-19 pandemin. Resultaten påvisar att intern kommunikation uppfattas som högst relevant av chefer och managers för att minimera osäkerhet, skapa en känsla av tillit och för att skapa eller bibehålla engagemang inom företaget. Dessutom indikerar dessa rön på hur ledarskap och det interna klimatet påverkar hur intern kommunikation uppstår, uppfattas och praktiseras. Med andra ord kan det antas att ledarskap och företagsklimatet påverkar den interna kommunikationen på flera nivåer vilka är viktiga att vara medvetna om. Sammanfattningsvis har studien visat att hur intern kommunikation under COVID-19 pandemin uppstår och hur den påverkas av ledarskap och företagsklimat inom dessa SMF är sammanflätat. Det blev också påtagligt att ledarskap, företagsklimat och intern kommunikation är påverkade av COVID-19 pandemin, både var för sig och beroende av varandra, vilket i sin tur påverkar deras inflytande över varandra.
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Shi, Ying, and Kristine Jurevica. "The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the European Green Bond Market." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448481.
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This thesis examined the effect of non-financial motives, namely pro-environmental or sustainability preference, in bond pricing on the European secondary market before and during the COVID-19 crisis over the period 02.01.2019-26.02.2021. To estimate the potential yield spread between green bonds and matched conventional bonds, we applied a stringent matching method and fixed-effect regression to explore the green bond premium. The result indicated a small positive premium of 0.46 bps before the COVID-19 (01.2019-02.2020) and a small negative premium of 0.2 bps during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis (03.2020-02.2021), and the premiums have significantly changed between the two study periods, implying that the COVID-19 had a significant effect on the GB premium. Thus, before the pandemic, investors demanded compensation in the form of a higher yield return on investing in green bonds; however, during the pandemic, investors are willing to accept a lower yield on the GBs in comparison to the equivalent CB to finance environmentally-friendly projects. Additionally, the paper investigated bond volatility by analyzing the standard deviation of the daily yield. Although green bonds tended to have a higher volatility, no robust conclusion could be drawn due to a lack of statistical significance.
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McCarthy, Anna. "Us and Them : The mental health impacts of LGBTQ discrimination within the COVID 19 pandemic." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104102.
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The mental health impacts of LGBTQ discrimination during the Covid 19pandemic have been severe. "We find that LGBT adults have experienced thepandemic differently than non-LGBT people in some key domains including withrespect to their risk of COVID-19, mental health, employment loss, vaccine attitudes,and willingness to engage in risk-reduction behavior such as social distancing(Dawson).” Additional help is necessary to manage resources for this group at a timewhen their voice isn’t as strong. Another example of a historical pandemic is the influenza pandemic thatoccurred after World War 1. These pandemics changed history, and the way that wethink and operate as a society. The COVID19 virus especially has changed the world.Some examples of how COVID has changed the world include school closures andlimitations on access to healthcare. The LGBTQIA community especially has struggled with access to equitablehealthcare. "In 31 states there is still no employment discrimination protection fortransgender people. private businesses and individuals continue to discriminateagainst same-sex couples. In Colorado, 41% of LGBQ people and 75% of transgenderpeople report needing to educate their health care providers on LGBTQ-specifichealth needs(McAfee).” The mental healthcare system has oppressed LGBTQIApeople. I wish to provide a contribution to a community where marginalizedcommunities are encouraged to gain social justice. By social justice I meanopportunities and privileges distributed equally within a society. They will gainsocial justice by disrupting systems that abuse oppressed marginalized folks. Thisincludes systems like systemic racism, ableism, sexism, and heterosexism andhomophobia. Institutions such as government, culture, and education reinforce thisoppression. These systems are hurtful and repeated by the mental health system.
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Alwén, Fredrik, and Anton Mardell. "The Impacts on Purchasing Processes duringa pandemic : A quantitative study how COVID-19 changed thepurchasing processes." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-44621.
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Throughout the years there have been many pandemics, but none with the same impact and complications of which COVID-19 brought the world at the start of 2020. Previous research on behalf of this issue has been made but not with the specifics of what the authors want to accomplish with this research. The authors want to look at “How has COVID-19 impacted the purchasing process?”. The reasoning behind choosing this research question comes from the problems COVID-19 brought theworld when it came to consumerism. In other words, the purpose was to evaluate how consumers have adapted and changed their ways of making purchases. People got forced, from being in lockdown, to do most/all their shopping through the internet, and for some this was not an easy task. Certain issues were brought to attention with this in mind: Consumers stopped their sporadic purchases and only focused on what was only necessary, at the start of the pandemic consumers started to panic and stocked up on food and household supplies such as toiletries. This research delimits itself from two specific parts: the first one is that the authors wanted to only look at the consumer's perspective and not the retailers. Secondly the issue at hand is a worldwide phenomenon which is considered through the research but with the limitation of having Swedish consumers answering the survey that was sent out to gather information. Marketing philosophy encountered the greatest game changer in our time and foundations of concepts, theories and processes were changed. How the growth of online shopping has increased between chosen groups with the drastic changes within the purchasing processes. From 265 respondents to our survey we analyzed four hypotheses and evaluated how the purchasing process has been affected. We found that consumers agreed with our beliefs that the process has changed. Online shopping has increased since COVID-19 started, but not within a significant change between groups. Consumers were not comfortable purchasing expensive items online which resulted in a problem regarding COVID-19 restrictions.
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Waller, Gary. "The economic impacts of Covid-19 on 4-star hotels in London and Stockholm in 2020." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45889.
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The global tourism and hospitality industry has benefitted from years of consecutive growth over recent times. However, the health crisis of Covid-19 in 2020 wiped trillions in USD off the industry’s economy taking it back to 1990 levels. Travel restrictions have been implemented across 100% of the world’s destinations at some point since the start of the pandemic, leaving many tourism organisations fighting for economic survival. The impacts to both the demand (travellers) and supply (hotels) to tourism destinations and organisations has resulted in loss of revenue and jobs globally, impacting individuals, families, tourism organisations and countries. With little or no tourism demand, the hospitality industry has been one of the biggest sectors impacted by Covid-19, with hotels bearing the brunt of the economic impacts. This paper looks to discuss if the economic impacts of crises in hotels can be limited by implementing certain strategies or crisis management techniques (CMTs). The paper contributes to the tourism and hospitality industry’s knowledge of crises and the impacts on 4-star hotels specifically, comparing two destinations in Europe, London and Stockholm, to identify if CMTs can be implemented to limit the economic impacts for future crises. This in turn will allow hotel senior managers (HSMs) to implement CMTs to reduce the economic impacts of crises in their hotels. Research is gathered from academic sources, media outlets and primary sources, offering a holistic analysis of Covid-19’s economic impacts in hotels, looking past just financial impacts but wider. A cross comparison of city hotels looks to assess differences in CMTs, gathering primary research and data from HSMs who are in the middle of the crisis and its impacts. Results determine that crises impact destinations differently and thus CMTs will alter depending upon the crisis impacts to a specific hotel or destination. However, there are many strategies that can be implemented to reduce the economic impacts, with the empirical results alluding to many successful CMTs, although these must be relevant and specific to the crisis, hotel and destination.
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Dubuque, Elise(Elsie S. ). "Multifamily Amenity Wars : defining their current state in luxury urban markets and determining impacts of COVID-19." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129092.
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Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, September, 2020Pagination: 1-123, 142-146, 124-141. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146).
This paper examines the historic, current and future state of luxury residential amenities and the popularly-called "Amenity Wars" in luxury multifamily housing. The research is based on U.S. urban markets with a special focus on Boston, Massachusetts, where the recent building boom and overall healthy economy have created an active and competitive multifamily development environment. It also aims to answer the question: how has/will COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) impact the thinking behind and programming of residential building amenities? The discussion of recent Amenity Wars trends incorporates themes such as catering to resident needs on a lifestyle level; the draw of physical amenities vs. service-oriented amenities; and demographic and market conditions that have resulted in the current state of multifamily demand.
Following is an exploration of how, as of summer 2020, the coronavirus's rapid person-to-person spread has proved particularly disruptive to the way multifamily housing operates, and how it has challenged existing perceptions about what makes for a desirable multifamily housing experience. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic will represent a profound moment in collective memory with the power to alter not only the planning and programming of multifamily features and amenities, but luxury urban residential demand in general. As such, it is now time to rethink what the future of the Amenity Wars will look like in both the evolving new normal and long-term new normal. This paper demonstrates how, during the pandemic, innovative designs and other creative solutions have already begun to infiltrate multifamily design and construction.
It also establishes that a healthy demand for luxury urban multifamily housing is poised to remain in the long term, along with which additional notable shifts in multifamily feature and amenity programming will occur. Going forward, we should expect to see changes to physical space in the form of more spatially-adaptable buildouts that enable flexibility of use in addition to more private areas and less community focus, as well as a shift toward service over some physical amenities. Additionally, some of the most lasting effects of the pandemic will be in regard to how multifamily buildings are designed to accommodate new demands of teleworking.
by Elise Dubuque.
S.M. in Real Estate Development
S.M.inRealEstateDevelopment Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate
Books on the topic "Covid 19 impacts on projects"
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Santosh, K. C., and Amit Joshi, eds. COVID-19: Prediction, Decision-Making, and its Impacts. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9682-7.
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Carmody, Pádraig. COVID-19 in the Global South: Impacts and Responses. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020.
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Bista, Krishna, Ryan M. Allen, and Roy Y. Chan. Impacts of COVID-19 on International Students and the Future of Student Mobility. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003138402.
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Morag, Nadav, ed. Impacts of the Covid‐19 Pandemic. Wiley, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119812203.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) | Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in food crises. FAO, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4060/ca9192en.
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Hudson, Simon. COVID-19 and Travel: Impacts, Responses and Outcomes. Goodfellow Publishers, Limited, 2020.
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Joshi, Amit, and K. C. Santosh. COVID-19: Prediction, Decision-Making, and Its Impacts. Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2020.
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COVID-19 impacts on agri-food value chains. FAO and WFP, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4060/cb3089en.
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COVID-19 impacts on the Palestinian food system. FAO, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4060/ca8714en.
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Abebe, Girum, Tom Bundervoet, and Christina Wieser. Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/33766.
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Charrett, Donald. "The impact of COVID-19 on construction contracts." In Contracts for Construction and Engineering Projects, 151–64. 2nd ed. London: Informa Law from Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003206897-14.
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Waite, Sue, and Jennie Aronsson. "Some Impacts on Health and Wellbeing from School-Based Outdoor Learning." In High-Quality Outdoor Learning, 171–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04108-2_9.
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AbstractSchool-based outdoor learning can offer a valuable means to reach a wider range of children than through community-based health and wellbeing projects as the majority of children regularly attend school. This is especially important now as the time children spend outside has decreased over recent years with access most restricted for low socioeconomic and minority ethnic groups and the COVID-19 pandemic has placed increasing pressures on how to maintain educational outcomes and health. The challenges to contemporary health and wellbeing include both physical and mental health, with rising levels of childhood obesity and declining mental health in youth. In this chapter, we describe research that has looked at pupils’ physical activity levels during the school day, and children’s and teachers’ wellbeing as a result of school-based outdoor learning. We reflect on how these key outcomes—health and wellbeing—may best be supported for this and future generations.
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Serne, J., and H. Dang. "Effective Safety Protocols and Project Productivity Impacts for Construction Companies in Washington State During the COVID-19 Pandemic." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 197–210. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0968-9_16.
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Verma, Parag, Ankur Dumka, Alaknanda Ashok, Amit Dumka, and Anuj Bhardwaj. "Direct and Indirect Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis on Economy." In Covid-19, 347–84. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003131410-9.
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Verma, Parag, Ankur Dumka, Alaknanda Ashok, Amit Dumka, and Anuj Bhardwaj. "Direct and Indirect Impacts of Environmental Factors on the COVID-19 Pandemic." In Covid-19, 297–346. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003131410-8.
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Jimenez, J. R. C., A. A. Sasaki, P. F. M. Simbulas, and J. S. Buluran. "Impact of COVID-19 on the Effectiveness of Safety Practices on Construction Projects: A Comparative Analysis Framework of Health and Risk Assessment." In 5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume III, 3–15. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003341963-2.
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Negara, Siwage Dharma. "COVID-19 Impacts and Recovery." In COVID-19 in Indonesia, 205–24. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003243670-9.
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Singh, Shivam, Saket Dubey, Nikhil Kumar, Manish Kumar Goyal, and Indrajit Pal. "Psychological Impacts of COVID-19." In Integrated Risk of Pandemic: Covid-19 Impacts, Resilience and Recommendations, 153–68. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7679-9_7.
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Batra, Geeta, and Trond Norheim. "Staying Small and Beautiful: Enhancing Sustainability in the Small Island Developing States." In Transformational Change for People and the Planet, 73–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78853-7_6.
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AbstractSpread over the ocean regions of the Caribbean, the Pacific and Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the South China Sea, the small island developing states (SIDS) are a distinct group of developing countries often known for their rich biological diversity, oceans, tourism, and fisheries. The pressures on these and other natural resources is most immediate in the islands where the high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, limited land and water resources, often unsustainable natural resource use, and other particular economic vulnerabilities are disrupting livelihoods. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the SIDS economies and livelihoods. Over the past 25 years the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has supported interventions in SIDS through $578 million in financing, in critical areas such as biodiversity protection, climate resilience, and energy access through renewable energy. But how effective and sustainable have these interventions been? What factors influencing the sustainability of GEF interventions can provide insights for future project design and implementation? This chapter draws on findings from a recent country cluster evaluation on SIDS conducted by the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the GEF. It presents the main environmental challenges in SIDS, the evidence on the relevance and effectiveness of GEF interventions in addressing these challenges, and the main risks to sustainability of outcomes. Important contextual factors that affect sustainability in SIDS include good policies and legal and regulatory frameworks, national ownership of projects, environmental awareness, institutional capacity, and strategic institutional partnerships. Project-related factors including good project design and adaptive project management, scaling-up and replication based on lessons learned, and a good exit strategy are also important for sustainability.
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Verma, Parag, Ankur Dumka, Alaknanda Ashok, Amit Dumka, and Anuj Bhardwaj. "Direct and Indirect Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis on Food & Agriculture." In Covid-19, 385–426. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003131410-10.
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Parameswaran, A., and K. A. T. O. Ranadewa. "Construction industry on the brink: The COVID-19 impact." In 10th World Construction Symposium. Building Economics and Management Research Unit (BEMRU), University of Moratuwa, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2022.19.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all industries globally, including the construction industry. As a result, the construction industry is experiencing several challenges in terms of delivering projects on time and on budget. However, a few studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has a positive impact on the construction industry. Hence, analysing the issues caused by COVID-19 is vital to lessen the effects of the pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the construction industry. Accordingly, a detailed literature review was carried out to gain a theoretical understanding of the topic. A quantitative research approach was used to collect data. The questionnaire survey was conducted using snowball sampling with a total of one 108 respondents. Statistical Package for Social Science" (SPSS) was used to analyse the collected data. The findings revealed 86 negative impacts for the construction industry owing to the pandemic, which was classified as resources-related issues, project management issues, quality issues, financial issues, contractual issues, safety issues, technology-related issues, and other issues for the construction industry. An increase in the price of materials and equipment, project cost, exchange rate, and inflation rate were noted as significant negative impacts to the construction industry. The research further identified twelve (12) favourable impacts for the construction industry as a result of the pandemic. Encouraging risk assessment and collaboration and encouraging Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were highlighted as the significant positive impacts. Therefore, strategies need to be identified to neutralise the negative impacts using the positive impacts caused by the pandemic. This study contributes to the body of knowledge to advance the construction industry towards the next level during the post- COVID-19 scenario, which will be the focus of the next phase of this research.
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Jayalath, C., and K. K. G. P. Somarathna. "COVID-19 AND INFORMAL LABOUR IN CONSTRUCTION: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEBINAR DISCUSSIONS." In The 9th World Construction Symposium 2021. The Ceylon Institute of Builders - Sri Lanka, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2021.19.
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Many countries after a remarkable spike in COVID-19 cases, opted to lockdown and quarantine curfew that restricted the movement of people. Construction is one of the main sectors experiencing a clear impact due to COVID-19. As a significant growth driver of the economy, the domestic construction industry employs nearly one million of the population directly in various trades. Unfortunately, almost every project has been severely hampered. It is, therefore, prudent to address the impact of the pandemic on construction labour at the outset and end of the crisis to prepare for any future challenges or opportunities that it may undergo. This study aims to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on the construction industry's survival and possible measures to be taken in both the short and the long run. This paper summarizes using a narrative analysis of the key takeaways of 15 webinar discussions on the COVID-19 impact and outlook of the construction sector in Sri Lanka. The impacts and fallouts have been addressed by key industry personnel. The study found the most prominent impacts of COVID-19 are the suspension of projects, labour impact, and job loss, time overrun, cost overrun, and delay in payments. The findings of this study shed light on the consequences of the sudden occurrence of a pandemic and raise awareness of the most critical impacts which cannot be overlooked. The findings also help project stakeholders prepare for any future worst-case scenarios.
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Rasul, M. G., and Nirmal Kumar Mandal. "Supervision and management practices of Final Year Engineering Projects: Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic." In 9th Research in Engineering Education Symposium & 32nd Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference. https://reen.co/: Research in Enineering Education Network (REEN), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52202/066488-0058.
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Хмелева, Галина Анатольевна, and Алина Александровна Домрачева. "COVID 19: TIME TO RESET THE REGION'S STRATEGY AND PROJECTS." In Национальная безопасность России: актуальные аспекты: сборник избранных статей Всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Санкт-Петербург, Май 2020). Crossref, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/nb185.2020.32.23.006.
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В статье проведена оценка влияния кризиса COVID-19 и снижения мировых цен на нефть на региональную экономику, представлены рекомендации авторов по повышению устойчивости экономики в регионах, одной из которых является перезагрузка стратегий социально-экономического развития. The article assesses impact of the COVID-19 crisis and decline in world oil prices on the regional economy, presents the authors' recommendations to improve sustainability of regional economy, one of which is a reload of socio-economic development strategies.
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Salazar, Valery, and Sandra Rodriguez. "Impact on the Performance of Construction Projects due to COVID-19." In ICICM 2021: 2021 The 11th International Conference on Information Communication and Management. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3484399.3484421.
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Yáñez, Begoña, and Nadia McGowan. "THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF CAPSTONE PROJECTS." In 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference. IATED, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.0072.
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Mayoral-Peña, K., A. Hambleton-Fuentes, and E. Caloca-Lafont. "UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS' INVOLVEMENT IN DIGITAL PATIENT-EDUCATION STRATEGY AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC." In The 7th International Conference on Education 2021. The International Institute of Knowledge Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17501/24246700.2021.7163.
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The COVID-19 pandemic generated relevant challenges in educating future physicians and brought attention back to the vulnerability caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular affections. Due to the risk of the 2019 Coronavirus contagion, the patient-based education strategies were put on hold, as they were face-to-face. Also, there was an urgent need to develop strategies that used new technologies to offer efficient and fast medical content to the non-specialized public. To overcome this situation, we involved undergraduate students of medicine in developing scientific content and infographics about the prevention and early diagnosis of cancer for a mobile application. The objective of this study was to assess the learning impact generated by the creation of digital patient-education materials. Five medical students enrolled in the Pathophysiology of Respiratory System course at Tecnologico de Monterrey were recruited as participants in the educational strategy with weekly sessions for four months. The following pedagogical tools were used during the intervention: project-based learning, challenge-based learning, engagement, service learning, science outreach, design thinking, and mentoring. Ten infographics for the mobile application were created after this experience. Also, a qualitative and transversal analysis of the undergraduates' learning was implemented using a focus group session as an instrument to evaluate the mentioned strategy's impact. As a relevant finding, we observed a high level of engagement, improvement in communication skills, and ethical reflections among the students. After the app is completed, we plan to create a social startup to generate more content about NCDs to promote prevention and early diagnosis. Educational strategies involving medical undergraduates in social projects have two beneficial outcomes: the student internalizes significant knowledge and positively impacts society's health. This project aims to inspire educators to empower students to develop real-life solutions as part of their college activities. Keywords: Educational innovation, medical education, patient-education strategy, digital technology development, pandemic adaptations, cancer education
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Verán-Leigh, Daniel, and Xavier Brioso. "Implementation of Lean Construction as a Solution for the Covid-19 Impacts in Residential Construction Projects in Lima, Peru." In 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). International Group for Lean Construction, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24928/2021/0215.
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Jackson, Phronie. "The Positive Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic." In 2nd Annual Faculty Senate Research Conference: Higher Education During Pandemics. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.135.13.
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The Covid-19 Pandemic significantly disrupted every aspect of human life and has produced an unprecedented hardship on education. The COVID-19 Pandemic created challenges for professors of higher education on multiple levels not limited to teaching, scholarship, and service. Using an Autoethnographic case study with a Social theory symbolic interactionist paradigm, the author explores and reflects on professional and personal experiences encountered during the COVID-19 Pandemic between March 2020 through the fall 2020 semester and beyond. The author describes interactions with students, adjusting her research plan, and pivoting to include COVID-19 in service projects. Although this paper has not covered any statistical analysis on the impact of Covid-19 on higher education, similar accounts can be found and have been cited in the literature. These reflections are unable to offer systemic answers to challenges facing higher education. However, these experiences and feelings will provide important inputs to global discussions, lessons learned, and best practices about the future of higher education, after Covid-19.
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Boldurat, Vladislav, and Olga Condriuc. "SME’s Situation within a DCFTA Context through COVID-19 Crisis." In International Conference Innovative Business Management & Global Entrepreneurship. LUMEN Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/ibmage2020/03.
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Analyzing the negative impacts of the global pandemic (COVID-19) on the R. of Moldova economy, SMEs external trade performed within a DCFTA framework represents one of the most important vectors for keeping the local economy in good health. Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, Republic of Moldova was no exception. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a series of problems, and those caused by movement restrictions have led to economic bottlenecks for exporting companies which resulted in liquidity and cash flow problems. Bringing our minds back to the Association Agreement and directly to the DCFTA, it is appropriate to estimate it’s preliminary impact on Moldova’s economy. After 5 years of DCFTA creation and implementation, it has been experienced a significant boost of the trade between Moldova and the EU, which resulted in the increase of investments, jobs, wages and goods export growth with 40% (1.5 billion USD). In spite of the positive effect the Free Trade Association Agreement is having on R. of Moldova, still, there are present some issues of healthy competitiveness and increasing production capacity type, key factors for exporting SMEs. With all these being stated, this study aims to identify COVID-19 influence on local SME’s doing business within the EU marketplace. Also, this article presents some analysis of emergency projects established by the local authorities to support SMEs and deliver practical solutions that can bring about change. The methodology used in this research is based on the statistical data that reflect the development of Moldovan exporting enterprises after the entry into force of the Association Agreement and, implicitly, DCFTA; analysis of national legislation and policy documents to support SMEs in the country and foreign trade in the context of the DCFTA.
Reports on the topic "Covid 19 impacts on projects"
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Esquivel, Valeria, Ana Carolina Ogando, Ghida Ismail, Marcela Valdivia, Pranita Achyut, Nomancotsho Pakade, Gountiéni D. Lankoandé, and Ian Heffernan. Why Covid-19 Recovery Must be Gender-Responsive. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/core.2022.001.
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This summary highlights key learning from research from the Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) initiative focusing on the impact the pandemic is having across different vulnerable groups and how gender intersects and often exacerbates these effects. Supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), CORE brings together 21 projects to understand the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and generate better policy options for recovery. The research is being led primarily by local researchers, universities, thinktanks and civil society organisations across 42 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
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Beuermann, Diether, Nicolas L. Bottan, Bridget Hoffmann, Jeetendra Khadan, and Diego A. Vera-Cossio. Suriname COVID-19 Survey. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003266.
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This dataset constitutes a panel follow-up to the 2016/2017 Suriname Survey of Living Conditions. It measures welfare related variables before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic including labor market outcomes, financial literacy, and food security. The survey was executed in August 2020. The Suriname COVID-19 Survey is a project of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It collected data on critical socioeconomic topics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to support policymaking and help mitigate the crisis impacts on the populations welfare. The survey recontacted households interviewed in 2016/2017 by the Suriname Survey of Living Conditions (SSLC) and was conducted by phone due to the mobility restrictions and social distancing measures in place. It interviewed 1,016 households during August 2020 and gathered information about disease transmission, household finances, labor, income, remittances, spending, and social protection programs. Data and documentation of the 2016/2017 Suriname Survey of Living Conditions can be found at: https://publications.iadb.org/en/suriname-survey-living-conditions-2016-2017 The survey was designed and implemented by Sistemas Integrales. This publication describes the main methodological aspects, such as sample design, estimation procedures, topics covered by the questionnaire, field organization and quality control. It also presents the structure and codebook for the two resulting publicly available datasets.
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Cohen, Spencer, Sumathi Chakravarthy, Sindhu Bharathi, Badri Narayanan, and Cyn-Young Park. Potential Economic Impact of COVID-19-Related School Closures. Asian Development Bank, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps220197-2.
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This study examines the economic impacts of COVID-19-related school closures in the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels along with the implications to future labor productivity in Asia and the Pacific. School closures due to COVID-19 created substantial disruptions in education, and this will impact the skills of students and their productivity when they mature as professionals. This study examines medium- and long-term economic impacts of COVID-19-related school closures using the Global Trade Analysis Project or GTAP. It also evaluates the labor productivity effect per year of schooling loss due to the pandemic.
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Arora, Sanjana, Hulda Mjöll Gunnarsdottir, and Kristin Sørung Scharffscher. Gendered dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic. University of Stavanger, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/usps.255.
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This report forms part of the deliverables produced by the international research project Fighting pandemics with enhanced risk communication: Messages, compliance and vulnerability during the COVID-19 outbreak (PAN-FIGHT), funded by the Norwegian Research Council. It provides an overview of project findings pertaining the gender dimensions of the pandemic, with a particular focus on risk perceptions, compliance and vulnerability. The COVID-19 pandemic has reiterated that the impacts of a crisis are not homogenous. Gender, which encapsulates both biological and socio-cultural ways of being, plays a role in how crises are experienced. This is evidenced by the health, economic as well as societal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic which have affected women and men, girls and boys differently. Knowledge about gendered implications of the pandemic is thus vital for designing equitable policy responses. This report draws on evidence from former research as well as on findings from an online survey conducted as part of the project’s data collection in 2021. The survey, reaching out to respondents in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, investigated public risk perceptions, reactions to governmental of risk communication about COVID-19, compliance with governmental restrictions and risk mitigation measures and vulnerability during the pandemic (N=4206).
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Bolton, Laura. The Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Colombia. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.073.
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Available data provide a picture for the macro-economy of Colombia, agriculture, and infrastructure. Recent data on trends on public procurement were difficult to find within the scope of this rapid review. In 2020, macro-level employment figures show a large drop between February and April when COVID-19 lockdown measures were first introduced, followed by a gradual upward trend. In December 2020, the employment rate was 4.09 percentage points lower than the employment rate in December 2019. Macro-level figures from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) show that a higher percentage of men experienced job losses than women in November 2020. However, the evidence presented by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia based on the DANE great integrated house survey shows that a higher proportion of all jobs lost were lost by women in the second quarter. It may be that the imbalance shifted over time, but it is not possible to directly compare the data. Evidence suggests that women were disproportionately more burdened by home activities due to the closure of schools and childcare. There is also a suggestion that women who have lost out where jobs able to function during lockdowns with technology are more likely to be held by men. Literature also shows that women have lower levels of technology literacy. There is a lack of reliable data for understanding the economic impacts of COVID-19 for people living with disabilities. A report on the COVID-19 response and disability for the Latin America region recommends improving collaboration between policymakers and non-governmental organisations. Younger people experienced greater job losses. Data for November 2020 show 3.3 percent of the population aged under 25 lost their job compared to 1.8 percent of those employed between 24 and 54. Agriculture, livestock, and fishing increased by 2.8% in 2020 compared to 2019. And the sector as a whole grew 3.4% between the third and fourth quarters of 2020. In terms of sector differences, construction was harder hit by the initial mobility restrictions than agriculture. Construction contracted by 30.5% in the second quarter of 2020. It is making a relatively healthy recovery with reports that 84% of projects being reactivated following return to work. The President of the Colombian Chamber of Construction predicting an 8.4% growth in the construction of housing and other buildings in 2021.
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Raei, Lami. KHF Entrepreneurship Support and the Impact of COVID-19 on Jordanian Entrepreneurs. Oxfam IBIS, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2021.7895.
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The King Hussein Foundation (KHF) partners with Oxfam in the Youth Participation and Employment programme (YPE) to promote entrepreneurship through supporting youth to engage in business start-ups and scale-ups. KHF projects support community-based organizations (CBOs) in establishing revolving funds, training CBOs in microfinance management and building the capacity of potential entrepreneurs. Apprenticeships and shadowing are two examples of popular approaches to facilitating entrepreneurship and self-employment. During the COVID-19 crisis, KHF has continued the implementation of activities virtually. This case study presents examples of young people utilizing financial support, reaching out to new clients using ICT, and eventually exploring ways to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.
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Bolton, Laura, and James Georgalakis. The socioeconomic impact of Covid-19 in low- and middle-income countries: A synthesis of learning from the Covid-19 Responses for Equity Programme. Institute of Development Studies, October 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/core.2022.007.
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This report provides a snapshot of the research undertaken and published by members of the IDRC-supported CORE programme. It sets out the main themes addressed by the research in relation to Covid-19 impacts on industries, sectors and socioeconomic groups in locations across Africa, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America. This includes both descriptions of how the pandemic has affected the lives of people from marginalised and excluded communities, and the efficacy of policy responses to the pandemic. Much of the learning arising from this ongoing research has implications for the pandemic response in different contexts, for building resilience against future shocks, and for the challenges of undertaking applied research during a global health emergency. Given the diverse spread of the 21 projects rapidly mobilised by the IDRC across 42 countries during the early stages of the pandemic, this summary of findings is, by its very nature, far more focused on some areas and geographies than others; it in no way claims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic impact of Covid-19. Nonetheless, it does provide some important learning for researchers, policy actors and practitioners seeking to build back better in the wake of an unprecedented global health emergency.
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Esquivel, Valeria, Ana Carolina Ogando, Ghida Ismail, Marcela Valdivia, Pranita Achyut, Nomancotsho Pakade, Gountiéni D. Lankoandé, and Ian Heffernan. Pourquoi la reprise après la Covid-19 doit être sexospécifique. Institute of Development Studies, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/core.2022.002.
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Cette synthèse met en évidence les principaux enseignements tirés de la recherche menée dans le cadre de l’initiative Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) axée sur l’impact de la pandémie sur différents groupes vulnérables et sur la façon dont le genre recoupe et exacerbe souvent ces conséquences. Soutenu par le Centre de recherches pour le développement international (CRDI), CORE réunit 21 projets visant à comprendre les impacts socio-économiques de la pandémie, améliorer les interventions existantes et générer de meilleures options stratégiques pour la reprise. La recherche est principalement dirigée par des chercheurs locaux, des universités, des groupes de réflexion et des organisations de la société civile dans 42 pays d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Amérique latine et du Moyen-Orient.
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Herbert, Sian. Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary No.29. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.020.
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This fortnightly Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary aims to signpost the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other UK government departments to the latest evidence and opinions on Covid-19 (C19), to inform and support their responses. Based on feedback from the recent survey, and analysis by the Xcept project, this edition, as a trial, focusses less on the challenges that C19 poses, and more on more on the policy responses to these challenges. The below summary features resources on legislative leadership during the C19 crisis; and the heightening of risks emanating from C19’s indirect impacts – including non-C19 healthcare, economy and food security, and women and girls and unrest and instability. Many of the core C19 themes continue to be covered this week, including anti-corruption approaches; and whether and how C19 is shaping conflict dynamics (this time with articles focussing on Northwestern Nigeria, Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and the Middle East). The summary uses two main sections – (1) literature: – this includes policy papers, academic articles, and long-form articles that go deeper than the typical blog; and (2) blogs & news articles. It is the result of one day of work and is thus indicative but not comprehensive of all issues or publications.
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Schmidt-Sane, Megan, Tabitha Hrynick, Erica Nelson, and Tom Barker. Mutual Learning for Policy Impact: Insights from CORE. Adapting research methods in the context of Covid-19. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/core.2021.008.
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On 25 November 2021, the CORE Knowledge Translation Services team at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, hosted an online clinic session to facilitate the sharing of experiences and mutual learning on how CORE projects have or can adapt their research activities in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The clinic was attended by 22 CORE members from 12 projects and featured contributions from two CORE projects: The Youth Question in Africa: Impact, Response and Protection Measures in the IGAD Region and A New Digital Deal for an Inclusive Post-Covid-19 Social Compact: Developing Digital Strategies for Social and Economic Reconstruction. This learning guide captures the practical insights and advice from the event, to help inform the practice of participants and other projects across the portfolio.