19/01/2021
© IIED
Inequality in the face of COVID-19: how grassroots communities are taking action
COVID-19 has demonstrated stark social and economic inequalities, with vulnerable and marginalised groups being disproportionately impacted. These vulnerable communities are at the frontline of any global crisis, including the climate emergency.
This is a recording of a webinar hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) on 2 July 2020, that saw speakers working with social movements and grassroots organisations examine how organisations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what we can learn.
The speakers reviewed inequalities in impacts and coping strategies, and discussed mechanisms to address inequality and manage future risks and shocks.
*How do we make room for innovation?
*How do we become more accepting of risk and increased experimentation?
*And what we can learn that will help us tackle the climate crisis?
This was the second online event in a series hosted by IIED and ICCCAD on the climate crisis and COVID-19 - working together for the change we need which will be hosted between June and October 2020. This event was also hosted working in partnership with ICCCAD and Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and was also a part of the London Climate Action Week series of online events.
The speakers were: Sheela Patel, the founder and director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) India, which is based in Mumbai, and works in partnership with the National Slum Dweller Federation and Mahila Milan; Martha Chen, a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and international coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO); Suranjana Gupta, advisor on Community Resilience at the Huairou Commission, a global coalition focused on grassroots women-led development; and Tracy Kajumba, principal researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group.
The discussion was facilitated by Saleemul Huq, director of ICCCAD in Bangladesh, and an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries.
More information: https://www.iied.org/inequality-face-covid-19-how-grassroots-communities-are-taking-action
This is a recording of a webinar hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) on 2 July 2020, that saw speakers working with social movements and grassroots organisations examine how organisations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what we can learn.
The speakers reviewed inequalities in impacts and coping strategies, and discussed mechanisms to address inequality and manage future risks and shocks.
*How do we make room for innovation?
*How do we become more accepting of risk and increased experimentation?
*And what we can learn that will help us tackle the climate crisis?
This was the second online event in a series hosted by IIED and ICCCAD on the climate crisis and COVID-19 - working together for the change we need which will be hosted between June and October 2020. This event was also hosted working in partnership with ICCCAD and Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and was also a part of the London Climate Action Week series of online events.
The speakers were: Sheela Patel, the founder and director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) India, which is based in Mumbai, and works in partnership with the National Slum Dweller Federation and Mahila Milan; Martha Chen, a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and international coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO); Suranjana Gupta, advisor on Community Resilience at the Huairou Commission, a global coalition focused on grassroots women-led development; and Tracy Kajumba, principal researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group.
The discussion was facilitated by Saleemul Huq, director of ICCCAD in Bangladesh, and an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries.
More information: https://www.iied.org/inequality-face-covid-19-how-grassroots-communities-are-taking-action
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