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Fighting inequality must be at the heart of response and recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar

Oxfam's latest report has brought a critical issue to the world’s attention as the World Economic Forum gets underway this month in Davos, Switzerland: how the COVID-19 crisis is worsening already serious levels of inequality.

Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: A Year of Challenge & Hope

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all. At the same time, it has also exposed and aggravated deep inequalities across communities, in Myanmar and around the world. What is clear as we enter the final weeks of the year is that the crisis will continue to have disproportionately serious impacts...

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ COVID-19 ကို ဘယ်လိုတိုက်ဖျက်မလဲ - ဆင်းရဲနွမ်းပါးမှုနှင့် ဂျဲန်ဒါအမြင်ပေါ်တွင် အခြေခံ၍ ချည်းကပ်လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်သော နည်းလမ်းအချို့

( ဒီ ဘလော့ဂ်ကို ရေးသားရာတွင် Oxfam ၏ Private Sector Policy Advisor ဖြစ်သော Yaqian Liang မှလည်း ပါဝင်ကူညီပေးထားပါသည်။) ကမ္ဘာကြီးဟာ ရာစုနှစ်တစ်ခုအတွင်း အကြီးမားဆုံး ကပ်ရောဂါဆိုးကြီးနဲ့ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရပါတယ်။ လက်ရှိမှာ ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံနဲ နယ်မြေဒေသစုစုပေါင်း ၁၉၀ ကျော်မှာ ရောဂါဖြစ်ပွားနေပါတယ်။ လူဦးရေ ၈...

How to fight COVID-19 in Myanmar: some ideas through a pro-poor and gender-sensitive approach

(This blog is prepared with significant contributions from Yaqian Liang, Private Sector Policy Advisor) The world is facing the worst global pandemic in a century, to date it has reached more than 190 countries and territories and an estimated 800,000 or more people are infected, with these number...

Well renovated by the Oxfam with the funding support from European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid/ Photo: Oxfam in Myanmar

Water for Life

In 2019, Mon state suffered from one of the worst natural disasters in its history. Serious flooding affected the lives of thousands of people, particularly those residing in harder to reach remote villages. Kaw Wat village in Kyite Ma Yaw township, has an population of approximately 400 people and...