The long tail of COVID-19 – financial impacts of the pandemic on the sustainability and resource mobilisation of local actors in the Asia Pacific region
Client: Australian Red Cross (ARC)
Duration: Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Our project team
Victoria Bannon
Chris McMurray
Type of work
Research and analysis
Reports and editing
Key themes
Asia Pacific
COVID-19
Donor advocacy
Economic sustainability
Localisation
Organisation development
Post-disaster recovery
Resource mobilisation
About this project
Commissioned by the Australian Red Cross, this research aimed to:
Assess the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (NS) and local civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Asia Pacific region;
Build an evidence base for advocacy around the impact of COVID-19 on National Society sustainability; and
Identify models of flexible and localised funding and partnerships that are supporting the response to COVID-19 and other disasters.
Secondary objectives of the research included:
Documentation of constraints impacting on the sustainability of national societies in relation to COVID-19 in the short and medium term
Provided targeted data points and insights to be used to develop evidence-based messaging for use in advocacy to stakeholders on findings
Captured good practice measures to inform Australia Red Cross’s approach to partnering with national societies in relation to fundraising, resource mobilisation and wider national society goals
The research took place over several months in 2021 and 2022, and involved a literature review, key informant interviews, the preparation of country case studies for six focus countries (Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar and Vanuatu; and analysis and report preparation.