South Asia

Community Rapid Assessment (CRA) on COVID-19

What is the Community Rapid Assessment (CRA)?, Evidence on Behavioral Drivers, Community Coping Mechanisms and Communication Channels The Community Rapid Assessment (CRA) was a joint pilot led by the Evaluation Office and Social and Behaviour Change Section. The initiative took place in two (2) regions – Eastern ...

Gender Integration and Effectiveness of the UNICEF COVID-19 Response in South Asia

Evaluation of Gender Integration and Effectiveness in the UNICEF COVID-19 Response in South Asia The real-time evaluation purpose and aim is to: Strengthen the gender integration of the response Enhance evaluation evidence and learning on integrating gender in humanitarian response at UNICEF Guide future investmen...

Longitudinal Rapid Assessment to Rapidly Gather Community-level Data for the COVID-19 RCCE Response in Pakistan

Background: A rapid population short survey on key behaviours and drivers relevant to COVID-19. Enabled UNICEF Pakistan to more effectively develop RCCE actions dynamically during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Survey used mobile technologies: IVR/robocall survey for the majority sample (rural or hard to re...

Community Based Monitoring – a rapid assessment of situation

Background: Around March 2020, there was a demand within UN Agencies and outside to assess the impact of the pandemic on marginalized families – directly or indirectly, affected by steps taken by the Government to mitigate the situation, especially on socio-economic fronts. Thus, CBM is part of the joint UN respon...

Social and Behavioural Data in Action: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Asia

Data in Action in South Asia Webinar | Social and Behavioural Data in Action: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Asia This focuses on COVID-19 behavioral drivers and patterns in South Asia with deep dive country cases from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal. This includes social and behavioral data to infor...

Rethinking UN engagement in middle income countries:Equity & institutions-determinants of engagement

According to the author, the overall objective of this paper is to further open the debate on methods that can generate more complex and holistic measures of development status of a country. Ideally, these should be able to capture the complexity of development challenges but should not be too difficult to generat...