Following the World Health Organisation’s declaration of a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, the Government of the Philippines issued a tentative six month State of Calamity throughout the country. The...
POLICY BRIEF ON THE GENDERED IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN LIBYA It has been one year since the conflict in Libya – and specifically around Tripoli – significantly intensified. Global calls have been made...
Cordaid has been working in Myanmar since 2008, starting with support in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, and since then continued with humanitarian aid and resilience projects. The country is a...
At the initiative of Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, Cordaid Investment Management and a group of other microfinance lenders and key players in inclusive finance worked on a set of principles to...
“South Sudan is facing a triple threat of hunger, floodings and now also COVID-19”, says Bashir James, Cordaid’s humanitarian aid programme manager based in Juba. To help avert the new Corona crisis,...
Background The Netherlands-based Partners for Resilience (PfR) is an alliance of humanitarian, development, climate and environmental civil society organisations, composed of five Netherlands based...
A lot has been said about the threats of COVID-19 to public health and to economic systems. But how are prevention responses affecting civil liberties and democratic practice? Especially in countries...
What are the effects of COVID-19 on prospects for peace and stability in conflict-affected countries? The Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS), hosted by Cordaid,...
We interviewed humanitarian aid expert Paul Borsboom about the effect of COVID-19 in refugee camps, and how to stop the spread of the virus there. “Worldwide, public health is such a big concern...
“The number of calls on our GBV and domestic violence hotlines has significantly increased after confinement measures were imposed”, says Cordaid’s Hala Sabah Jameel from Iraq. With 50 other...