How have covid-19 and movement restrictions affected poor and vulnerable groups in Ethiopia?
Findings from qualitative exploratory interviews with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
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Making teams work in volatile and uncertain environments
As the covid-19 response moves toward recovery and management, Ben French sets out three lessons for forming teams able to respond effectively to emerging challenges.
Podcast: How can governments lead effectively in a crisis?
We speak to Matt Andrews about what makes good crisis management, good communication, and leadership in the public interest.
Listen more and demand less: how delivery units can help governments respond to covid-19
Our senior consultants Alexandra Nastase and Peter Harrington discuss how focusing on support, rather than controlling the system, helps delivery units to best support a …
Do we have another pandemic on our hands, and minds?
Our Public Health consultant, Rithika Nair, discusses the mental health effects of covid-19, and the need to prioritise measures for short term support and long term …
Podcast: COVID-19 in South Africa - “Invest in trusting relationships”
We speak to the Emeritus Head of the Health Department for Western Cape, Beth Engelbrecht, about the COVID-19 response in South Africa.
Podcast: Developing a smarter lockdown in Punjab
We discuss the smart lockdown and kick-starting the economy in Punjab with the Chairman of Punjab’s Planning and Development Board, Hamed Yakoob Sheikh.
COVID-19: Test-learn-adapt - Managing risks and expectations for education technology
Discussing the experimental innovation in developing education technology to support learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Cases, deaths, and lock-downs: the variety of pandemic data and uniformity of response
Read OPM’s latest blog by our Chief Economist, Mark Henstridge, discussing a new paper on the imact of COVID-19 on low- and middle-income countries