Covid-19 Archives

3 September 2021

How did Covid-19 affect women’s autonomy and access to healthcare in Pakistan?

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

With Pakistan facing a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and new restrictions being imposed in major cities, research from the IDS-led Action for Empowerment and Accountability programme sheds new light on the gendered impacts and experiences of the pandemic in urban Pakistan...

3 September 2021

What about these Covid-19 learning losses?

Soufia A. Siddiqi, Momina Idrees, Musharfa Shah

As educational institutions across Pakistan slowly reopen for a new academic year, an underlying anxiety is taking root: by how much has the learning of Pakistani students been set back? If lessons from recent scholarship are anything to go by, our youngest children...

29 June 2021

Double Burdens and Dual Identities: Pakistani Working Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Eraj Tufail Arbab

Past crises in Pakistan have never been gender-neutral and women have suffered disproportionately for a long time (Tariq and Bibler, 2020). Indeed, evidence from previous disasters and pandemics suggests that women are more vulnerable...

29 June 2021

Determinants of Working Preferences Amongst Pakistani Women: Insights from Covid-19 Lockdowns

Areeba Suhail, Leena Salman

In April 2020, following a national lockdown due to Covid-19, numerous jobs across Pakistan became home-based. Although this represented a significant disruption to all sectors and genders, women seemed to become especially ...

9 June 2021

Trust, State Capacity, and Administrative Burden in Pakistan’s Immunization Program

Sameen A. Mohsin Ali and Samia W. Altaf

Vaccine hesitancy is a global phenomenon and one of particular concern at the present moment with the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines and their reception around the world. An extensive literature studies...

26 May 2021

Covid-19 Gendered Exposure and Perceptions in Pakistan

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

The lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic are starkly divided along gender lines, and the pandemic has already exacerbated gender inequalities within the home and in the labour market across countries...

26 May 2021

COVID in Pakistan: Stemming the Third Wave

Maha Rehman

(Excerpts from this article first appeared in the weekly newsletter for Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University)

12 May 2021

Understanding Gendered Experiences and Impacts of Covid-19 in Pakistan

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

12 May 2021

Lessons for Conducting Phone-based Surveys During Covid-19 and Beyond

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

To understand the gendered impacts and experiences of the pandemic in urban Pakistan and inform gender-sensitive policy responses, researchers from the Institute of Development Studies and IDEAS (working under the auspices of the Action for Empowerment...

25 April 2021

Informality and Covid-19 in Pakistan

Umair Javed

About 60 percent of the world’s labour force works in the informal sector, typically outside the net of formal institutionalised relationships between workers, states and companies. This means that informal workers are often excluded from state-led social protection programmes and the various formal...

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Covid-19

How did Covid-19 affect women’s autonomy and access to healthcare in Pakistan?

What about these Covid-19 learning losses?

Double Burdens and Dual Identities: Pakistani Working Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Determinants of Working Preferences Amongst Pakistani Women: Insights from Covid-19 Lockdowns

Trust, State Capacity, and Administrative Burden in Pakistan’s Immunization Program

Covid-19 Gendered Exposure and Perceptions in Pakistan

COVID in Pakistan: Stemming the Third Wave

Understanding Gendered Experiences and Impacts of Covid-19 in Pakistan

Lessons for Conducting Phone-based Surveys During Covid-19 and Beyond

Informality and Covid-19 in Pakistan