COVID-19: Research Responses

This post written by Supraja Parthasarathy (IFMR), Vasanthi Subramonia Pillai (IFMR), and Luisa Cefala (UC Berkeley) shares how the results…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of innovative, real-time data and analysis when it comes to making fast, consequential…

In conjunction with the study: “Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries”…

This post, written by Edward Lempinen (Media Relations Specialist, UC Berkeley), was originally published on Berkeley News.

This post, written by Program Associate Anya Marchenko, describes an AI-based approach to targeting cash transfers that is currently being…

Since March 2020, our research team¹ has been providing technical assistance to the Government of Togo to help guide their humanitarian…

CEGA recaps a panel discussion held on Oct. 20 to discuss the impact of the pandemic on displaced people. This post, written by CEGA…

With schools closed for the entire academic year due to the coronavirus pandemic, solutions have emerged to provide lessons to students…

Pastoralism is a livestock production system that has been carried out for millennia in some of the world’s harshest environments…

This post was written by Corey Murray, Senior Operations Associate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).

This post, written by CEGA program associate Anya Marchenko, is part of a series of posts on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting…

This post, written by Opportunity Lab (O-Lab) Program Manager Joe Broadus, recaps a virtual conversation organized by O-Lab, CEGA, and…

Study registries and pre-analysis plans are critical to ensuring that policymakers have access to coordinated, credible, and high quality…

Research insights from the CEGA network may help inform government and NGO decision-making in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Quick pivots to research processes have allowed for real time data collection that can answer questions about resilience and recovery of…

This post was written by CEGA Affiliate Simone Schaner (USC), with coauthors Rohini Pande (Yale) and Charity Troyer Moore (Yale). It was…

This post, written by Anthony Mveyange (EASST Fellow, TradeMark East Africa) and Andrew Mold (United Nations Economic Commission for…

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and on this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, what might we do to help vulnerable populations through…

This post, written by Kelsey Jack, Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara, is…

This post was co-authored by CEGA journalism intern Anne Daugherty and Operations Director Lauren Russell, with contributions from CEGA…

We moved a 300-person conference online in five days because of COVID-19. Here’s what we learned.