COVID-19 Recovery in Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries
Date: Wednesday June 30th, from 4:00 to 5:15 pm Central European Time
Description: As per the 2020 OECD State of fragility report, the global systemic shock of COVID-19 will intensify fragility and its consequences on people, planet and prosperity. In 2020, before the outbreak of the pandemic, fragile contexts were home to an estimated 76.56% of people living in extreme poverty. An additional 26 million people are expected to fall into extreme poverty due to the impact of COVID-19 in fragile contexts.
This session will look at solutions to tackle the issue of exacerbated fragility on informal workers, women and the youth living in fragile states and conflict affected countries and consider how private sector activities and investment can support and expedite recovery.
- Moderator: Lidet Tadesse Shiferaw, Security and resilience programme, ECDPM
- Benoit Larielle, Programme Manager Private sector development, EU Delegation to Somalia
- Ric Goodman, Director of Resilience Technical Services, DAI
- Aude de Montesquiou, Senior Advisor for Strategy and Scaling Economic Inclusion through Digital Innovations, BRAC Institute for Governance and Development
- Abdullahi Osman, CEO Hormuud Foundation