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Webinars: Learning and Adapting During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens decades of progress in international development. The challenge for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), donors, and development partners is to respond to the present crisis and its secondary effects across all sectors, and to help government systems and communities become more resilient in the future.

We’ve convened experts to discuss experiences responding to the challenges of COVID-19 in developing countries. Past webinars in this series can be viewed below.

Past Webinars

Webinar 1: How are International Development Implementers and Donors Responding in this Challenging Time?

This conversation focused on how implementers and donors are establishing flexible plans, systems, and communication strategies to both adapt to current country context and prepare for future impacts of COVID-19.

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Webinar 2: How Health Systems Can Respond to Disruptions

Panelists from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation India, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and USAID joined RTI to discuss how health systems in low- and middle-income countries face unique challenges as COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe.

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Webinar 3: Can a Planetary Health Lens Inform Pandemic Response?

This webinar introduced the nascent field of planetary health, examined its links with COVID-19 and other contemporary health challenges, and explored how it can contribute to international development policy and implementation.

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Webinar 4: Data for Cross-National Decision-Making

A panel of researchers and experts from different development and humanitarian organizations shared specific case studies and discussed challenges, successes, and future applications of phone surveys for COVID-19 and beyond.

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Webinar 5: How Can Markets Improve Resilience?

Hear from USAID about how market systems programming can help speed up recovery from crises, while learning from ongoing research in Senegal that analyzes how farmer networks have adapted in response to COVID-19.

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