Are South-South value chains more resilient in the age of Covid-19? Insights from Eswatini’s apparel
Giovanni Pasquali, Research Associate, Global Development Institute, Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town Read the full research briefing here The Covid-19 pandemic is having major implications for the resilience of apparel global value chains (GVCs). State-driven...
In conversation: Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau on Covid-19 in Kenya’s informal settlements
Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau work for Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a social movement of ‘slum’ residents and urban poor people in Kenya, affiliated to SDI International. In this podcast they describe the last few months of working through the initial outbreak...
Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists – June 2020: still waiting
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...