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ARIN

The impact of COVID-19 on mental health and mental health treatment in Africa

Currently, the world is experiencing a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

03
Jan
2022

CGDEV

Uganda’s Record-Breaking Two-Year School Closure Led to… No Decline in the Number of Kids Who Can Read?

A couple weeks ago, Uganda finally ended the longest national school closure ...

03
Feb
2022

IFPRI

COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?

Food prices are skyrocketing around the world. In January, international prices ...

11
Feb
2022

Brookings

Strategies for financing Africa’s health sector

Out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending in Africa remains excessively high compared to other continents—just one weakness exposed COVID-19 pandemic

03
Feb
2022

World Bank Blogs

What about the boys? Addressing educational underachievement of boys and men during and beyond the COVID pandemic

It is important and timely to better understanding the underachievement of boys and men, in addition to girls and women.

23
Feb
2022

GPEKIX

Lessons on the impact of COVID-19 on girls education in Africa

Interventions that are likely to be impactful are those that are anchored on sound policies and strategies.

08
Mar
2022

World Bank Blog

Learning loss from Covid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Emerging evidence, including from a recent review of 29 studies from 17 countries, demonstrates that the Covid-19 pandemic and associated closures of schools have been correlated with substantial loss in learning.

19
Apr
2022

CSIS

Barriers to Re-Enrollment: The Case of Covid-19's Impact on sub-Saharan Schoolgirls

Over the last two years, Covid-19 has altered the world’s routines – from workplace practices and supply chains to social gatherings and education. Students around the world suffered from school closures

10
May
2022

World Bank

Reinvigorating our results focus in the midst of multiple crises

Developing countries are at a critical crossroads. They are facing multiple, overlapping, and compounding crises from the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, growing impacts of climate change, economic imbalances and rising debt distress.

10
Jun
2022

World Bank

COVID-19 socio-economic impacts in Equatorial Guinea: what data shows

With the first case of COVID-19 confirmed on March 14, 2020, the Equatorial Guinea (EQG) government declared a state of alarm, closing the borders, suspending school classes, forbidding gatherings…

13
Jun
2022