COVID-19
COVID-19 and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing an unprecedented crisis, hitting hard on all the constitutive elements of human development: income, education and health. Not counting many other indirect effects, including increased domestic violence, yet to be fully documented....
Strengthening Preparedness for COVID-19 in Cities and Urban Settings
PAHO shared a report titled “Strengthening Preparedness for COVID-19 in Cities and UrbanSettings” to support local authorities, leaders and policy-makers in cities and other urban settlements in identifying effective approaches and implementing recommended actions...
Quanzhou city of China donates 100,000 surgical masks to Bergamo in Italy
Solidarity among Cities in Response to COVID-19 A hundred thousand surgical masks were donated by the Quanzhou’s Maritime Continental Silk Road Cities Alliance (MCSR CA) Business Council and its members, to Begamo city, Italy, to support their response to the COVID-19...
Follow-up to: Webinar on SRH Programming Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
When: Friday, 8 May 2020 (8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. New York time) How to connect: To join the webinar via Zoom link: click here. UNFPA, in collaboration with Partners in Population and Development (PPD), convenes a panel of experts from China to share with us the...