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Humanitarian crises monitoring: coronavirus in developing countries: secondary impacts

Closed Opened 2 Apr 2020 Closed 1 Dec 2021 19 recommendations 1 conclusion

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Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
Report and Government response published Within its report, the IDC warned the secondary impacts – ranging from non-covid healthcare to hunger, and crippling international debt to gender quality – could be more severe than the virus itself to countries in the Global South. The IDC found widespread disruptions to routine vaccination programmes, rising unemployment leading to fears of accessing food and lockdowns resulting in increased gender-based violence. Given the scale of the secondary impacts of covid-19 to many of the world’s most vulnerable, the IDC was disappointed that the Government rejected its recommendation to publish a covid-19 strategy, suggesting that existing policy documents such as the Integrated Review covers these issues. The Government also dismissed the necessity for a cross-departmental, multi-year Global Health Strategy, despite the IDC hearing evidence that 70% of countries reported that their routine immunisation programmes were all stalling due to the disruption caused by the pandemic. During an evidence session last week, the IDC was told that hospitals in Yemen are being forced to prioritise patients more likely to survive illness in ICU due to the limited resources in being able to treat all those in need. Although the IDC was encouraged to see that, within their response, the Government is open to reviewing debt cancellation of low-income countries, the IDC remains concerned as this would be considered on a case-by-case basis and in coordination with multilateral organisations.

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 2 April 2020.

The committee has published 2 reports, most recently Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts on 26 January 2021.

The government's response to each report

Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts

Published 26 April 2021.

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The Government agrees on the need for a strategic approach and for efficient aid spending, but states there are "no plans for a separate covid-19 strategy" and "no immediate plans to publish a global health strategy".

  • On ODA, it describes the move from 0.7% to 0.5% of GNI as a "temporary decision" and says it "will return to the 0.7% target when the fiscal situation allows".
  • On debt, the UK "will work with G7 and G20 partners to take a coordinated view on a further extension of the DSSI"; it is "willing to cancel debts where required in order to restore debt sustainability".
  • On sexual and reproductive health, it does not ringfence contraception funding, saying ringfencing "could provide unnecessary limitations of choice for women and decrease integration between services".
  • On nutrition commitments, the Department is "undertaking an internal review" and "will update as soon as is feasible"; it agrees that cash transfers can help different groups respond to secondary impacts.

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Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings)

Published 26 January 2021.

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The government sets out continued commitment to existing health and gender-based violence programmes, but states that it "disagrees" with the Committee's view that ODA funding should be switched away from COVID-19 research and development.

  • On existing disease programmes, it says it will "continue to fund existing programmes which tackle previously identified diseases", including through Gavi and the Global Fund.
  • It does not accept that COVID-19 research and development should move from ODA to other budgets, stating that such investment "qualify as ODA" under OECD DAC rules and that moving it "risks underfunding" research suited to developing countries.
  • On gender-based violence, it says it "remains committed to eliminating all forms of gender-based violence" and is launching a successor programme, What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale.
  • On a wider global health strategy, it describes the 2021 G7 Presidency as an "opportunity" and says it will work to implement the Prime Minister's five-point plan, without committing to the strategy the Committee proposed.

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Recommendations and conclusions

  • Recommendation 1Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings)
  • Recommendation 2Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings)
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Evidence

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Recommendation 1

Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings) · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We recommend that, as part of a renewed consistent approach to promoting global health, the FCDO should continue to fund existing programmes aimed at the eradication of previously identified diseases. The Government should use its integrated voice to lobby development allies and partners to stop any transfer of resources from existing programmes, and the Global Fund, to Covid initiatives.

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Recommendation 2

Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings) · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
Successive UK governments have always stated that safeguarding and action against gender-based violence, including sexual violence, were high priorities for action. We have previously welcomed this stance and recommend that the new Department continues to make it a priority to maintain and strengthen the international alliance around initiatives in this area. We also recommend that the new Department maintains the UK’s international leadership on this agenda, preserves existing levels of funding and seeks to identify what further interventions may counteract the effect that Covid has had in increasing levels of domestic violence and sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children.

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Recommendation 3

Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings) · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Government continues to project clearly onto the international stage, the importance it places on the UK’s place within the rules-based international infrastructure and the crucial foundations of human rights and the rule of law as fundamental British values.

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Recommendation 4

Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings) · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We believe the FCDO should: • recognise that the eradication of the pandemic everywhere is an integral part of resolving the threat anywhere and therefore switch its financial support for Covid-19 vaccines, therapies and tests voluntarily from its ODA pot to other budgets (thereby freeing up resources for more frontline activity on secondary impacts in developing countries) • re-commit to its ongoing programmes and provide new funding for the Covid-19 response—in particular in relation to secondary impacts—from ODA, freed up from Covid-19 vaccine R&D, rather than allowing the transfer of scarce resources from existing programmes, especially those tackling other diseases • use its significant leverage as leading development actor in many areas (gender equality, disability inclusion, poverty alleviation) to lead an inclusive and transparent approach by the donor community (both bilateral and multilateral), • put local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their partner International NGOs at the heart of the global Covid-19 response as they are closest to end-user communities and benefit from existing relationships of trust and confidence.

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Recommendation 5

Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings) · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We conclude that, for the time being, it would not be prudent for the Government to work on the basis that funding allocated to research for vaccines, treatments or tests for Covid-19 would count as ODA, as it “contributes to addressing a global challenge and not a disease disproportionately affecting people in developing countries”. Our view is that this frees up a substantial sum from the 2020 ODA pot to be applied to, either alleviate part of the cuts made in anticipation of reduced GNI for 2020, or activity aimed at alleviating secondary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. We would recommend the latter course (in so far as the options are mutually exclusive).

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Recommendation 6

Recommendation · Fifth Report - Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus (interim findings) · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
At a strategic level, we urge the PM and the Government to be more ambitious for the UK’s G7 Presidency than simply calling for better cooperation in spotting, preventing and fighting another pandemic more effectively. Rather, we recommend the Government lead a charge towards the establishment of a holistic global health and nutrition strategy based around achieving Sustainable Development Goal Three (ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages) more broadly. This would put the world in a position to respond effectively to the next global health challenge, and the one after that, whatever these turn out to be—rather than just the last one we struggled with.

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Recommendation 1

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
The reduction of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 0.7% to 0.5% of annual Gross National Income (GNI) from 2021 necessitates an approach which ensures that UK ODA is spent in a more strategic and effective way than ever before. This approach should be reflected in the priorities set and the programmes funded by the FCDO in relation to the secondary impacts of covid-19. Drawing the right lessons from the multiple, significant changes since January 2020 is essential to ensuring an effective, long-term response to the secondary impacts of covid-19. We ask the FCDO to tell us how they or the Government decided on which programmes and themes to prioritise, how they assessed the impact of their decisions to cut funding on recipient countries and populations, and how they intend to strengthen their engagement with NGOs and private suppliers during the implementation of the Government’s announced reduction of UK ODA to 0.5% of GNI.

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Conclusion 2

Conclusion · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Concluded (the committee's words)
We support the Foreign Secretary’s inclusion of key secondary impacts of covid-19, such as famine, in the new Strategic Framework for UK ODA. However, we are concerned that the framework omits other crucial areas, including an explicit commitment to poverty reduction.

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Recommendation 3

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
To strengthen the UK’s approach to tackling the secondary impacts of covid-19 in developing countries, the FCDO should design, apply and publish a long-term strategy relating to covid-19 by the end of the financial year. It should then revisit its ‘seven global challenges’ outlined in the new Strategic Framework for UK ODA, and provide us with a written assessment of how the framework will deliver this strategy, and how the framework will be amended accordingly if necessary. At a multilateral level, the UK should advocate for a joined-up recovery strategy to the pandemic, including using its presidencies of the G7 and COP26 to demonstrate global leadership in this area.

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Recommendation 4

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
The pandemic is having a particularly detrimental effect upon already vulnerable groups by reinforcing inequalities and discrimination. To counteract this, we recommend that the FCDO take the following steps: • To undertake and publish impact assessments as quickly as possible (and no later than March 2021). • To collect and publish disaggregated data relating to age, disability and gender in order to provide an effective and inclusive response to the secondary impacts of covid-19 which leaves no-one behind. • To embed DFID’s Data Disaggregation Plan and the work of the Data for Development (D4D) team in the covid-19 response in order to increase the scope for meaningful engagement with local NGOs and community workers working with vulnerable groups during and after the pandemic. Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts 37 The UK should use this data to inform future decision-making on UK ODA, and thus increase its value for money by enhancing the effectiveness of UK ODA and facilitating transparency in accounting for it.

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Recommendation 5

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We welcome the Government’s intention to reduce the number of expensive mega- contracts for the delivery of UK-ODA funded projects. To ensure that NGOs are able to continue essential work with vulnerable communities, the FCDO should replenish funds used by NGOs to tackle the impact of covid-19 in place of other activities. Furthermore, the FCDO should ensure that it provides more direct funding for local, frontline NGOs and its partner organisations as part of the greater flexibility in designing projects mentioned in the Foreign Secretary’s letter to us on 2 December 2020. We urge the Government to increase the effectiveness of development programmes by incentivising delivery partners to include local NGOs in the planning, co-ordination and decision-making on the covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we ask the FCDO to update us on the lessons it learned from its programme “Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) Innovation Labs” which ran from 2014–2019 and aimed at improving responsiveness to communities through direct engagement with local NGOs.

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Recommendation 6

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
Covid-19 has affected healthcare systems in developing countries negatively. The urgency with which countries have had to respond has diverted already scarce resources towards covid-related care at the expense of other essential healthcare. This has caused disruption to routine vaccinations and treatments and is storing up years of future problems as well as a potential reversal of hard-won gains in global health. The FCDO should show global leadership in its commitment to global health, as outlined in the Strategic Framework for ODA, through maintaining its existing commitments to routine immunisation programmes and other essential healthcare across developing countries. It should further tell us how it assesses the impact of covid-19 on healthcare and decides to mitigate it. Our interim findings report recommended that the Government should publish a multi-year, cross-departmental global health strategy, to map out how UK policy can deliver a strategic and integrated approach to strengthening global health. In the midst of a pandemic, this is needed more than ever, and we reiterate our previous recommendation. Furthermore, this global health strategy should set out how the UK intends to use levers at multilateral and bilateral levels to achieve its aims, how this ensures progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and how the strategy will reach the most marginalised and vulnerable communities. Whilst we commend the Government’s response to covid-19, we are concerned that several of the measures listed in the FCDO’s submission in October 2020—the £80 million commitment to the Global Financing Facility and the £400 million commitment to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative—pre-date the outbreak of covid-19 and ask the FCDO to provide us with an updated list, which sets out the Government’s funding for healthcare since the outbreak of covid-19.

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Recommendation 7

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
At a time of heightened need, it is more important than ever that healthcare is provided in a way that uses stretched resources as efficiently as possible through integrating responses to multiple health challenges. As part of a global health 38 Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts strategy, the FCDO should work with developing countries to reduce financial barriers to accessing healthcare for communities, prioritising low-cost approaches to lifesaving treatments and incorporating the feedback of communities more effectively into their response. Furthermore, the FCDO should advocate for the integration of the various streams of healthcare provision even more in its work with partner organisations to help accomplish an effective response to other diseases alongside covid-19 during the pandemic.

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Recommendation 8

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We welcome the UK’s role in extending the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative to 30 June 2021, the measure to temporarily suspend debt service payments for the poorest countries. As the majority of these outstanding debts are governed by English law, the UK Government is in a unique position to send a global message on debt service payments by suspending or cancelling repayments. We urge the Government to extend the Debt Service Suspension Initiative beyond June 2021 and to use its influence to persuade private lenders to join this scheme. Furthermore, the Government should consider options for the cancellation of debt and provide this Committee with the rationale behind its decisions on debt relief versus debt cancellation for low- and middle-income countries.

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Recommendation 9

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
Livelihoods in developing countries have been devastated by the pandemic. Workers in economically precarious sectors, such as agriculture, are especially vulnerable to the economic shock and instability caused by covid-19. We believe that protecting these jobs is central to enabling people to lift themselves out of poverty. We request that the FCDO write to us on a quarterly basis, outlining how the Government’s economic and trade interventions which form part of the Strategic Framework for ODA will strengthen the economic resilience of low-income groups in developing countries. We ask the Government to fund long-term, multi-year programmes, designed to foster employment opportunities, and ask the FCDO to work closely with recipient countries, aid partners and local NGOs in identifying those activities which have the greatest, long-term beneficial impact on the livelihoods of vulnerable people, and to allocate resources accordingly to support such activities.

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Recommendation 10

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
While we welcome the appointment of a Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs and the £119 million aid package to support food security, we ask the FCDO to update us on a quarterly basis on the performance and achievements of its measures to counter food insecurity. We also recommend that the UK Government renew its nutrition commitments, which expired at the end of 2020, as a matter of urgency. We further ask the Government to expand funding for programmes addressing malnutrition and food insecurity, especially those addressing the issues through cash transfers as they can help different groups to respond effectively to the secondary impacts of covid-19 according to their individual needs.

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Recommendation 11

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We are concerned by the likely increase in gender inequality following the outbreak of covid-19 and its potential impact upon programmes promoting gender equality. In its response to this report, the FCDO should set out how they have implemented Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts 39 their “Smart Rules”, their operating framework for better and gendered programme delivery. We further recommend that the FCDO refresh DFID’s Strategic Vision for Gender Equality to form a consistent and coherent policy context for all relevant initiatives. In particular, the FCDO should convene an external panel of experts to challenge its performance on the Strategic Vision as announced by its predecessor DFID when it launched the initiative. We further ask the Government to review the role of the Gender Equality Delivery Board in holding the Department to account for the implementation of the Strategic Vision, and to appoint a successor Special Envoy on Gender Equality and align that role with the Strategic Vision and the work of Delivery Board. The Government should further tell us if their covid-19 response incorporates measures to counter the rise in unpaid care by promoting gender-responsive trade and investment policies which protect public investment in childcare, health, education and water and sanitation facilities.

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Recommendation 12

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
Gender-based violence has increased during the pandemic, with the risk especially acute for groups such as adolescents, migrants, refugees and displaced people. At the same time, access to support services has become more difficult. Therefore, it is disappointing that a specific commitment to the protection of women and girls from gender-based violence is absent from the FCDO’s revised framework for UK ODA. We recommend that the FCDO use the UK’s presidency of the G7 and COP 26, as well as its co-presidency of the Generation Equality Action Coalition, to publish a list of objectives which it will seek to achieve in combatting gender-based violence during its tenure and to set out how it will monitor progress on achieving them. It should also ringfence existing funding commitments to projects which seek to tackle gender-based violence. The FCDO should ensure that delivery partners administering programmes against gender-based violence can account for how their work is reaching survivors of gender-based violence and their support systems.

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Recommendation 13

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
Access to sexual and reproductive health services is an essential element of healthcare, providing lifesaving services to women and girls and empowering them to make choices about their futures. The FCDO should publish an assessment of the effectiveness of current UK-funded programmes on the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in developing countries and should ringfence funding for the provision of reversable contraception to women and girls. It should also explicitly integrate the pledge to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-borns and children by 2030 into the list of global challenges in its new Strategic Framework for UK ODA.

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Recommendation 14

Recommendation · Eighth Report - Covid-19 in developing countries: secondary impacts · Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Recommended (the committee's words)
We welcome the FCDO’s continued commitment to prioritising girls’ education in UK ODA funding. However, we are concerned that the pandemic will push back progress in this area, with rising poverty levels forcing girls out of school and remote teaching techniques unable to reach key cohorts of girls of school age. To ensure that this commitment leads to high-quality education for girls, the FCDO should base future funding decisions upon data disaggregated by gender and age to assess impact. They should further ensure that their measures are adapted sufficiently to support girls who are hard to reach and at risk of leaving education permanently, including through close work with local NGOs to identify effective, local approaches for educating marginalised girls.

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Reports

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Oral evidence sessions

8 sessions

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Date Session and witnesses Source
24 Nov 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: coronavirus in developing countries: secondary impacts
Darren Welch · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Gwen Hines · Save the Children, Jennifer Miquel · UNFPA Jordan, Lee Webster · ActionAid UK, Matthew Wyatt · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Rachel Turner · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Wendy Morton · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 		View ↗
10 Nov 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: coronavirus in developing countries: secondary impacts
Donal Brown · International Fund for Agricultural Development, Dr Graham MacKay · Bond, Dr Louisa Cox · Fairtrade Foundation, Lamis Al-Iryani · Social Fund for Development - Yemen, Sultana Begum · Norwegian Refugee Council, Tim Jones · Jubilee Debt Campaign 		View ↗
15 Sep 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of the coronavirus
Dr Timothy Russell · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Kate White · Medecins Sans Frontieres, Linh Schroeder · International Committee of the Red Cross, Professor Azra Ghani · School of Public Health, Imperial College, Professor Francesco Checchi OBE · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Selena Victor · Mercy Corps 		View ↗
6 Jul 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus
Dr Charlotte Watts · Department for International Development, Matthew Wyatt · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Nick Dyer · Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office, Rachel Glennerster · University of Chicago, Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 		View ↗
2 Jul 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus
Dr Josie Golding · Wellcome Trust (part of both CEPI and the Covid Therapeutics Accelerator (CTA) partnership), Dr Samia Saad · Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, Professor David Heymann CBE · Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) 		View ↗
16 Jun 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus
Amanda Glassman · Center for Global Development, Daniel Graymore · Department for International Development, Dr Charlotte Watts · Department for International Development, Dr Tamsyn Barton · Independent Commission for Aid Impact 		View ↗
4 Jun 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: Impact of the Coronavirus
Farah Kabir · Action Aid, Bangladesh, Ghassan Abou Chaar · Médecins Sans Frontières, Ndubisi Anyanwu · Mercy Corps 		View ↗
15 May 2020
Humanitarian crises monitoring: impact of coronavirus
Bob Kitchen · International Rescue Committee, Gwen Hines · Save the Children, Marian Schilperoord · UNHCR, Ms Aleema Shivji · Humanity & Inclusion UK, Nick Dearden · Global Justice Now, Robert Mardini · International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Rosemary Forest · Peace Direct 		View ↗

Who gave evidence

38 witnesses

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Dr Charlotte Watts · Chief Scientist Department for International Development 2
Gwen Hines · Executive Director of Global Programmes Save the Children 2
Matthew Wyatt · Director for Humanitarian, Food Security and Resilience Directorate Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 2
Amanda Glassman · Executive Vice-President and Senior Fellow Center for Global Development 1
Bob Kitchen · Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response International Rescue Committee 1
Daniel Graymore · Board Member for UK/Qatar, Gavi and Head of Global Funds Department for International Development 1
Darren Welch · Director of Global Health Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 1
Donal Brown · Associate Vice-President International Fund for Agricultural Development 1
Dr Graham MacKay · Chief Operating Officer Bond 1
Dr Josie Golding · Epidemics Lead Wellcome Trust (part of both CEPI and the Covid Therapeutics Accelerator (CTA) partnership) 1
Dr Louisa Cox · Director of Impact Fairtrade Foundation 1
Dr Samia Saad · Director of Resource Mobilisation Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations 1
Dr Tamsyn Barton · Chief Commissioner Independent Commission for Aid Impact 1
Dr Timothy Russell · Research Fellow London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 1
Farah Kabir · Country Director Action Aid, Bangladesh 1
Ghassan Abou Chaar · Emergency Director, Yemen Médecins Sans Frontières 1
Jennifer Miquel · Head of UNFPA's Regional Syria Response Hub UNFPA Jordan 1
Kate White · Medical Emergency Manager and Covid-19 medical technical lead Medecins Sans Frontieres 1
Lamis Al-Iryani · Head of Monitoring and Evaluation Social Fund for Development - Yemen 1
Lee Webster · Co-Chair at the Gender and Development Network & Deputy Director of International Development Policy and Practice ActionAid UK 1
Linh Schroeder · Deputy Regional Director for the Africa Region International Committee of the Red Cross 1
Marian Schilperoord · Senior Operations Manager UNHCR 1
Ms Aleema Shivji · Executive Director Humanity & Inclusion UK 1
Ndubisi Anyanwu · Country Director for Nigeria Mercy Corps 1
Nick Dearden · Director Global Justice Now 1
Nick Dyer · Second Permanent Under-Secretary Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office 1
Professor Azra Ghani · Infectious Disease Epidemiology School of Public Health, Imperial College 1
Professor David Heymann CBE · Board member Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) 1
Professor Francesco Checchi OBE · Epidemiology and International Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 1
Rachel Glennerster · Associate Professor University of Chicago 1
Rachel Turner · Director for International Finance Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 1
Robert Mardini · Director General International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1
Rosemary Forest · Senior Advocacy Officer Peace Direct 1
Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan · Secretary of State for International Development Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 1
Selena Victor · Senior Director Policy and Advocacy Mercy Corps 1
Sultana Begum · Advocacy Manager Yemen Norwegian Refugee Council 1
Tim Jones · Head of Policy Jubilee Debt Campaign 1
Wendy Morton · Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas) Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 1

Correspondence

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19 May 2020 Not recorded Correspondence from the Secretary of State, relating to resilience building to Covid-19 in the Global South and correspondence with DFID suppliers