COVID-19 and NCDs
Our COVID-19 and NCDs project was a 12-month project which ran from the 1st Feb 2021 to 31st Jan 2022 and was funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. This project aimed to explore the impact of the pandemic on people living with NCDs in St Kitts and Nevis using a gender lens. As part of this work, we adopted an intersectional approach that aimed to bring some nuance to this research and explore how the dual identities of NCD patient and gender may influence how a person might have experienced both the pre-pandemic and pandemic eras. We also wanted to determine if the pandemic may have exacerbated the challenges that people with NCDs encountered before the pandemic and if the pandemic created or exacerbated any gender inequalities amongst people living with NCDs.
To explore this, we interviewed people living with NCDs and policymakers and based on these interviews we prepared three items: a research report, an NCD and Gender Impact Assessment of COVID-19 Policies and a digital framework entitled: Embedding people living with NCDs into the Disaster Manager Process – A Framework for Policymakers.
As a result of our project, we have been able to provide 12 evidence-based, gender-balanced policy recommendations for the management of NCDs during emergencies. We have also had stakeholder meetings to explore how we can take these recommendations forward and will be exploring the implementation of an NCD and Disaster Management project in collaboration with key stakeholders.
This project has been very significant as it has given us the information that we need as a society to protect our most vulnerable communities and ensure they are not overlooked during challenging local, national and international crises.
Funder:
Commonwealth Foundation
Date:
Feb, 2021
Categories:
NCDs
Tags:
COVID-19, NCDs
