Robert Chambers' 'involuntary immersion'; links I liked; can MERL help with Covid?; how can we spot weak signals of Covid-driven transformation; chill with a Corona Quiz

Links I liked; two contrasting approaches to Covid and Corruption; a new podcast on Power in the Pandemic; informal social protection and Covid

Links I Liked; the politics of Covid in Uganda; we're all data geeks now; how are adaptive management programmes coping with Covid?; what could Africa look like a year from now?

Links I Liked; Conspiracy Theories in Africa, Coronavirus and the Case for Care and a feminist recovery; champion of champions in the cartoon competition

Links I Liked; Social Movements and Covid; How social research can help governments; Debt Relief; humour, social change and a Corona-cartoon competition

Links I Liked; how diagrams can help social science improve the Covid response; how Covid is affecting civil society, and how it is responding, including some great entrepreurship from India

Links I Liked; Covid advocacy in South Africa's shanty towns; the Pope on Universal Basic Wage and much more; African and Indian authors on the crisis

Covid links; impact in fragile/conflict states; religion and the response - lessons from Ebola; political legacy; Oxfam's economic response proposal

Oxfam on how to confront the catastrophe; A Coronavision Song Contest goes viral; Why Love Matters in messaging about the crisis; Care in a time of Corona; my new paper on Covid as a Critical Juncture

All Covid and Development this week: Links I Liked, including 'Coronavirus Rhapsody' (sorry, Freddie); A brief history of hand-washing; how to stop lockdown leading to an upsurge in violence against women; why debt relief for poor countries needs to be part of the response; the tensions between faith and science in Africa.