{"id":1611,"date":"2020-06-03T05:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unhabitatyouth.org\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:33:15","slug":"development-policies-must-be-changed-because-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhabitatyouth.org\/en\/development-policies-must-be-changed-because-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Policies Must Be Changed Because Of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Author<\/strong>: Erik Berg<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
A plan is needed to develop preventive measures for vulnerable groups. 90 percent of Covid-19 cases are found in cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expert in Norwegian development research, Gunnar S\u00f8rb\u00f8, former director of the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, writes in the Norwegian Development Magazine (\u201cBistandsaktuelt\u201d) on March 12 that the distance in Norwegian development policy between rhetoric and actual implementation has never been greater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He points out that long-term state-to-state cooperation with a limited number of countries is weakened and their ownership reduced through the use of parallel structures such as multilateral and other multi-donor funds. Analysis of development trends both globally and at country level are gone. New grants spring from Norwegian priorities and interests. The poverty focus is weak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Leah Namugerwa, Climate Changemaker, feeds community members in rural Uganda as part of the Youth-led COVID-19 Emergency response (Leah Namugerwa, 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vaccination against hunger?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In our encounter with Covid-19, our assistance appears to have little concern of the poor. Official foreign policy makers are banging the drum for delivering initiative and money for a new Corona multidonor fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The experience with such funds is that it takes 2\u201311 years before they operate. Their capacity building of national health systems is limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Norway also provides NOK 13 billion for vaccine research. The problem is that such development takes time, that campaigns are expensive and time-consuming with limited social outreach in poor countries. Why is aid money used for this purpose when it is only rich people and countries that could afford it ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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