Simon David Henry, Author at Maintains

ethiopia urban poor — **A 13 year old who had come to Addis Ababa to find work but due to COVID has become unemployed and living on the streets**
Credit: Kasper Bøgsted Kristensen, Danish Red Cross

27 October 2020

OPM through the Building Resilience in Ethiopia (BRE) and Maintains programmes together with MERQ Consultancy and the Government of Ethiopia have just published part two of a six-part study which aims to understand the impact of COVID-19 and government response measures on poor and vulnerable groups in urban areas in Ethiopia. In this blog, we spoke to lead researcher Donna Harris about the findings and challenges so far. Read more

**In Uganda, Red Cross volunteers are carrying out screening against COVID-19, along with establishing handwashing stations in public places like markets.**
Credit: Uganda Red Cross Society

12 August 2020

COVID-19 continues to be an unprecedented challenge globally, affecting multiple sectors in every country. As part of its research, the Maintains programme has conducted a rapid review of the experiences and challenges of scaling up the response to COVID-19 in the first three months (March to May 2020) of the outbreak in five countries: Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. In this blog, Maintains’ Debbie Hillier examines the successes and challenges so far... Read more

**UK Aid is helping treat children suffering from malnutrition as a result of extended drought.**
Russell Watkins/DFID

7 August 2020

Not all health shocks are as big as COVID-19, but smaller ones can also be devastating and are often overlooked. How can donors ensure response funds are available quickly for smaller shocks? ‘Crisis modifiers’, tested for natural hazards such as droughts, offer a possible solution at the humanitarian-development nexus. Read more

**Information overload during COVID-19**
Credit: James Marvin Phelps

27 July 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to its core research, Maintains has been pivoting activities towards the impact of the pandemic, examining the way health and social protection systems are responding during the crisis, to learn lessons for this and future pandemics. In this blog, Shrochis Karki reflects on who is producing and consuming this information, how it is being shared, and how these knowledge flows could better support local and contextually-relevant responses. Read more

COVID-19 and the urban poor in Ethiopia

What are the challenges for national scale-up to respond to COVID-19?

Crisis modifiers: An effective tool for donors to respond to health shocks?

Pandemic and the knowledge production industry: Fit for purpose?