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COVID-19 Series: Falling through the gaps? Social protection systems during the COVID-19 pandemic — **The start of your morning coffee.**
Credit: Pete Lewis/DFID

1 May 2020

Key findings from a literature review on how social protection systems are responding to COVID-19 and what we can learn from previous epidemics.

A female doctor with the International Medical Corps examines a woman patient at a mobile health clinic in Pakistan. Credit: DFID/Russell Watkins. — **A female doctor with the International Medical Corps examines a woman patient at a mobile health clinic in Pakistan.**
Credit: DFID/Russell Watkins

29 April 2020

Lessons from a recent literature review of governance and the role of the state in responding to COVID-19. By Stephen Akroyd, Principal Consultant, Public Sector Governance, OPM.

Making Makamie safe again from EbolaCredit: Corporal Paul Shaw/MOD — **Making Makamie safe again from Ebola.**
Credit: Corporal Paul Shaw/MOD

24 April 2020

What we learned from a recent literature review of disaster risk finance, public financial management and COVID-19. By Felix Lung, Maintains Global DRF Advisor and Learning Lead.

**Entering the isolation unit at Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone.**
Credit: Simon Davis/DFID

11 March 2020

The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 illustrates how health systems often have to cope with “shocks” – whether epidemics, natural hazards such as droughts and floods or population displacements.

COVID-19 Series: The role of government and COVID-19

COVID-19 Series: Can public finance systems in developing countries cope with pandemics?

What does it take to build the preparedness of health systems to manage shocks like COVID-19?