Date | Title (linked) | Institution / Author | Comments / Related issues |
Ongoing | Feminist Response to COVID19 | Feminist organisations and activists | Feminist organisations and activists have come together in a moment of collective organizing to outline key principles for a just and resilient recovery from the ongoing global pandemic, as well as to track responses and uplift collective action of feminists around the world. |
Ongoing | COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NEWS FROM UNIONS | ITUC affiliates | This page contains information from ITUC affiliates, Global Union Federations and LabourStart about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. |
Ongoing | IDA – COVID 19 and Disability Movement | International Disability Alliance (IDA) | In the light of the COVID19 pandemic and with the aim to support a disability-inclusive response to the crisis, International Disability Alliance (IDA) has launched this hub-page to share the most recent updates and resources as they become available. |
Ongoing | New Economics Foundation – Coronavirus Responses | New Economics Foundation | NEF’s research and advocacy on the Covid-19 crisis – and beyond. |
April 2020 | Civil society background briefing: the IMF response to COVID19 | 35 CSOs and academics | This background briefing prepared ahead of 2020 Spring Meetings represents a collective effort of over 35 civil society organisations and academics. |
April 2020 | Exiting the permanent crisis in the global south | Global Justice Now | The case for a global financial reset in the wake of Covid-19. |
24 April 2020 | Socio-Economic Impact of Covid19 on the East African Community | Seatini | SEATINI – Uganda and members of the East African Trade Network (EATN) developed a discussion paper on the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the East African Community. |
23 April 2020 | COVID-19: A Triple Whammy for Emerging Market and Developing Economies | Madhyam | Even though the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the US and European Union has captured the world’s attention, one should not lose sight of the pandemic and its associated health, economic and financial stability challenges in the rest of the world. As the COVID-19 pandemic advances globally, Africa and South Asia are witnessing a surge in the number of new cases lately, and these regions could soon become its next epicenters in the coming weeks. The emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) are facing a triple whammy ― massive capital outflows, a sudden stop in economic activity, and collapse in commodity prices ― on top of a public health crisis caused by COVID-19. |
21 April 2020 | Spring Meetings 2020 wrap-up: Will this change everything? Apparently not.. | Bretton Woods Project | “While the Spring Meetings only marked the first chapter in the evolving international response to the unfolding crisis, the failure of the supposed apex of the multilateral development finance system to set out an adequate and just response is a function of both its archaic, rule-by-the-powerful architecture and resistance to break away from a decades-long adherence to free market orthodoxy.” |
16 April 2020 | COVID-19: An open letter from African intellectuals to Africa’s leaders | Open letter from African intellectuals | “The threats that are hanging over the African continent with regards to the spread of COVID-19 demand our individual and collective attention. The situation is critical. Yet this is not about mitigating another “African” humanitarian crisis but to diffuse the potentially damaging effects of a virus that has shaken the global order and put under question the bases of our living-together.” |
15 April 2020 | Eight Global Action Points for People-centred COVID-19 Response & Beyond | IBON International | IBON International identified eight global action points that aim to directly address the rights, needs and welfare of Southern peoples amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond |
9 April 2020 | Dignity not Destitution | Oxfam | This paper lays out an Economic Rescue Plan For All that meets the scale of the crisis, mobilizing at least $2.5 trillion dollars to tackle the pandemic and prevent global economic collapse. It prioritizes helping people directly: giving cash grants to all who need them. An immediate suspension of the debt payments of poor countries, combined with a one-off economic stimulus by the IMF and an increase in aid and taxes, can pay for this. |
31 March 2020 | Global Unions’ statement for WB/IMF Spring Meetings | ITUC/Global Unions | The Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank must produce a plan to coordinate economic stimulus, public health action and debt relief |
28 March 2020 | Today’s pandemic shows a need for system overhaul | IBON International | The world must never return to “business as usual.” Today’s extraordinary times require extraordinary measures for development: the international community must ensure that radically different economic, financial and governance norms emerge from this emergency. |
25 March 2020 | CPDE – COVID-19 is a wake-up call to reverse inequality, a challenge to leave no one behind | CPDE | |
20 March 2020 | ICC-ITUC – Open Letter to G20 | ICC-ITUC | Global business and workers are united in call for coordinated action by G20 leaders that leaves no one behind in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
14 March 2020 | IBON International – Responses to the Coronavirus must build int’l solidarity for people’s rights | IBON International | |
March 2020 | TWN Africa – Africa Agenda – Africa feels the negative economic waves of COVID -19 outbreak | TWN Africa | African Agenda Issue Vol. 23 No. 1 2020: Africa feels the negative economic waves of COVID-19 outbreak |