COVID-19
A dashboard of tools, resources, ideas and stories.
Updated: March 7, 2023
Good finds online
What we're reading, watching and listening to
- Video
Young people from 18 countries in 6 continents react to the initial ‘wave’ of the coronavirus. A video series produced by Connor Kirwan and Toni Pyke.
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Thailand
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Thailand
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Uganda, Italy & Australia
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Brazil & Norway
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: India & Spain
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: El Salvador & Cambodia
Generation Lockdown in 2 minutes: Ethiopia & UK
Our Features
Seeing is believing: how media mythbusting can actually make false beliefs stronger
Misinformation about the coronavirus is rampant but when the mainstream media tries to debunk these myths, it can sometimes backfire..
No, Covid vaccination in Africa not just 6%, as tweet claims – uptake improving
A tweet that claims only 6% of the African population is vaccinated against Covid is false. The actual figure, according to the World Health Organisation, is 21%.
5 Resources on COVID-19 and its Impact
Here’s a run down of 5 teaching resources on the impact of Covid-19 that you have to check out. A list, introduced by Ciara Regan.
The Method – Vaccine nationalism or multilateralism?
An activity that can be adapted across Junior Cycle subjects that looks at questions of supply and global demand of vaccines – and what would an ethical Covid-19 vaccine programme look like?
Solidarity in Action 2021 – A Journey in Global Citizenship Education
This online publication comprises of critical reflections from participants of Solidarity in Action course, 2021.
Blogs
3 countries who used COVID-19 restrictions as a weapon against social justice
Kai Evans explores how governments used COVID-19 restrictions for the wrong reasons.
COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality: a shot in the arm for Africa
COVID-19 vaccine inequality remains, despite many of us returning to a form of ‘normality.’ Kai Evans finds out why.
Protecting the civil society space – 5 lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
Kai Evans reviews lessons learned from the pandemic about protecting civil society space during a crisis.
Access to or lack of? Food insecurity in 2022 – an update
An additional 345 million people are food insecure. How did this happen? Navika Mehta reviews the latest global food security report
Reshaping the Global Health Architecture in Times of Growing Geopolitical Divides
Global Health Architecture Post-COVID-19 session from the World Health Summit 2022
#100objects podcast episode 3: ‘I Run the World’ and 75:25 with Martyn Turner
On episode 3 of the podcast, guest host ‘educational activist’ and development educator Colm Regan interviews colleague and friend Martyn Turner on the perils, dilemmas and trade-craft as a cartoonist.
Resources
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- Reads
Five issues the US President needs to take action on - Caoimhe de Barra
No election in the world attracts as much global attention as the race for the Whitehouse. That is because no political office in the world has as much global reach as that of the US President. (via Trócaire)
Covid-19 has revealed a pre-existing pandemic of poverty that benefits the rich
The World Bank’s flawed and misunderstood poverty benchmark has led to a deceptively positive picture and dangerous complacency. By outgoing UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston (via The Guardian)
COVID-19 and Development Education
A range of perspectives to inform practice and provoke debate, following a public call for submissions (via The Centre for Global Education, Belfast)
- Podcasts
Small Changes
A podcast series of one-on-one interviews with people who've seen a problem in the world and set out to change it. By The Guardian
Change the World
Young people across Ireland share their thoughts on the Sustainable Development Goals and how we can achieve them. By National Youth Council of Ireland and Spunout.ie
Will Black women decide the next US president?
The Take. An AJ+ podcast presented by Imaeyen Ibanga