COVID19

The COVID-19 pandemic poses the single largest short-term challenge to global development in several decades. Its short-term effects are disrupting the capacity of development co-operation to help partner countries prepare, address, and overcome this health and socio-economic threat. Recent gains in development results are at risk of being undone, and the capacity to monitor them will also be greatly affected. The OECD-DAC Results in Development Cooperation Group has published a policy brief and technical report to help development cooperation actors during the current pandemic.

There are many sources of information on the global pandemic but some we are reading include:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/coronavirustracker/

https://www.economist.com/news/2020/03/11/the-economists-coverage-of-the-coronavirus