SID Livelihood Sustainability and Wellbeing in an era of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Livelihood Sustainability and Wellbeing in an era of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Center for Global Development and Sustainability, The Heller School at Brandeis

A Global Policy and Justice Series – Spring 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic is having devastating impacts on the livelihoods of millions of households across the globe. The session will first examine these dynamics and discuss some case studies on these devastating impacts. It will also highlight the discriminatory patterns underlying current interventions and consider policy options to redress the situation, especially for female/youth headed households.

Professor Joseph K. Assan is on the faculty of the Sustainable International Development Program at the Heller School at Brandeis and is the Lead Investigator on Resilience, Poverty Reduction and Development at the Center for Global Development and Sustainability. He also serves as an Editor of CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion. Before Brandeis, he was Assistant Professor of Development Practice at Trinity College Dublin where he acted as the associate director of the Masters in Development Practice. He has served as the Director of the International Development Program at the University of Liverpool and has worked as a project officer with organizations including the Global Hunger Project (Ghana Office). Assan is a popular speaker at academic and policy conferences discussing policy strategies for Africa’s growth, livelihoods and reducing inequality.