A cooperative team from Yale, Stanford and Innovations Poverty Action has conducted a control trial over 350,000 individuals in Bangladesh and identified four strategies that would effectively change norms to encourage mask wearing. The NORM project stands for no-cost, offering information, reinforcement, and modelling. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) donated $3 million to […]
The World Bank has signed a financial agreement of U$ 221.5 million to the Government of Vietnam to tackle the local recovery. The budget will give a concession of 30 years, gracing the period of 5 years. The action aims to foster an inclusive economic recovery by easing the tax burden on businesses, improving access
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting the Government of Bangladesh to manage the damages of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a 500 million budget to fund the “COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program’’, the partnership has been active since the beginning of the pandemic promoting socio-economic recovery and strengthening the national health system. The
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The Greek organisation Emfasis Foundation is a non-profit founded in 2013 focused on programs to support the homeless, people who are chronically unemployed, families below the poverty line, socially vulnerable young people, and socially excluded seniors at risk of imminent homelessness or in a street situation. The organisation trains teams of volunteer to work daily on
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Raising Awareness About Challenges Faced by the LGBTI Community in Indonesia In Indonesia, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community live with daily life obstacles. In the pandemic, the community faces new challenges including job loss, increasing violence and discrimination, and inadequate social support. The Crisis Response Mechanism (CRM) Consortium, consisting of UNAIDS
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In Australia, the “Pandemic Kindness Movement” Aims to Support Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic The movement was created by clinicians across Australia offering evidence-informed resources and links to valuable services to support the well-being of the health workforce. The health worker’s support is based on a hierarchy of needs reflecting the potential challenges faced
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