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Young Lives' Response to COVID-19

Teacher in Ethiopia during Covid outbreak

The coronavirus pandemic caused Young Lives to urgently review our research and policy priorities and we have made ambitious adaptations to our 2020 programme. The team is also highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on the young people in our study through a series of publications, blogs and articles.

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Young Lives at Work

The global Young Lives team planned to conduct Round 6 of our household survey in 2020. Unable to continue with this due to the pandemic and associated restrictions, the team moved to an innovative Phone Survey to provide rapid headline outcomes about the impact of COVID-19 on young people in our study countries. We published findings from the first of three calls in this survey in August. Headlines from these findings were also published by The Conversation here. Short reports from the Second and Third Call will be published later this year. These outputs aim to inform global and national policy responses to the crisis, and provide longer term analysis on the affect of the pandemic on young people’s transitions to adulthood in our study countries. 

Gender Inequality and Education

With 91 percent of children and young people out of school due to COVID 19, we adapted our planned education and gender research, introducing a phone survey with head teachers.  We conducted interviews with school leaders in India and Ethiopia to find out about their teaching and learning priorities and strategies during school closures and to what extent these were equally accessible to all children. We published headline findings and national policy reports here. We have collaborated with other key researchers in conducting school leader surveys and will disseminate findings jointly.

Qualitative research

Young Lives qualitative longitudinal work, conducted with a smaller group of the main cohort in each country, is currently researching the way gender and poverty interact in transitions to adulthood, and influence diverging trajectories through education, work and first-time marriage. Although these qualitative data were collected prior to COVID-19, we are refocussing some of our analysis on related current concerns for youth in low – and middle – income countries, such as: experiences of shocks; economic precarity and informal labour; access to sexual and reproductive health and rights; and explaining vulnerability and ‘resilience’ among marginalized youth.

Young Lives’ longitudinal approach offers a long-term perspective to development problems, enabling critical connections to be made between early experiences and later outcomes. Young Lives is uniquely positioned to provide rapid information on the short term impacts of COVID-19 and measured analysis on the longer term outcomes of this current crisis.

Young Lives COVID-19 Blogs and Articles
Man in a face mask
COVID-19: managing the pandemic in 2021
Hand washing in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19: update on the pandemic in Young Lives study countries
Challenges Related to Mental Health Disclosures that Social Science Researchers Face During the Pandemic
Gardening during lockdown in Ethiopia
Listening to Young Lives at Work Covid-19 Phone Survey: First Call shows widening inequality
Boy washing hands
COVID-19: a snapshot of the pandemic in Young Lives study countries
Ethics
COVID-19 and the ‘ethics of disruption’
Fieldwork training over Zoom
Listening to Young Lives at Work COVID-19 Phone Survey: First Call fieldwork has begun!
The Young Lives team
Young Lives responses to COVID-19
Experimental Innovation screenshot
Experimental innovation and COVID-19 – Managing risks and expectations for EdTech
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