Conflict Analysis Project

Possibilities and Challenges: Social Protection and COVID-19 Crisis in Jordan

Introduction

The social protection system is an indispensable institution that delivers support to disadvantaged groups in any society. It is an essential process that keeps the community viable and has the capacity to bridge social inequalities. A modern social protection system includes removing barriers to high-quality healthcare, income protection (including for informal workers), job protection, and, finally, preventing vulnerable groups from falling into poverty.

COVID-19 Vaccines: Is equity between North and South still possible?

The global supply of COVID-19 vaccines has been controlled by countries with financial and political means, leaving behind most of the world’s developing regions, including the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Almost 75 percent of the approximately 5 billion vaccine doses administered globally have been used by just 10 countries.[1]

Tunisia’s “Al-Ahyaa Al-Sha’Biya”: Socioeconomic Grievances, Mobilisation, and Repression

In 2021, Tunisia witnessed several political and socio-economic crises, which were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The country had already been facing an acute economic contraction – described by the International Monetary Fund as the worst crisis since Tunisia’s independence in 1956 (IMF, 2021). In 2020, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi indicated that the country had a negative growth rate of 6.5 percent and a public debt amounting to 86 percent of GDP (Chomiak, 2021).

موجز: الإقتصاد السياسي لإدارة أزمة جائحة كوفيد-١٩ في تونس: هل هي أزمة حُكم أم فشلٌ على مستوى المنظومة الصحّية؟

تصدَّرَ عناوين الأخبار التصريحُ الذي أدلت به الناطقة الرسمية لوزارة الصحّة، في منتصف عام ٢٠٢١، وتحدّثت فيه عن انهيار النظام الصحّي التونسي وعجزه عن توفير الخدمات العلاجية للعديد من المرضى، إلى جانب الارتفاع الكبير الذي سجَّله عدّاد الإصابات والوفيات إثر تفشّي الموجة الرابعة للجائحة. وكانَ لهذا التصريح غير الدقيق والمستعجل تداعياتٌ واسعة على المستويَيْن الداخلي والخارجي، إذ استنكرت الجمعيات هذا التصريح الذي فنّدته الحكومة في اليوم نفسه.

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