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Report series: Rapid research COVID-19

Responding to crisis and urgent need
Published: 23 Jan 2022
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A set of rapid research briefings looking at how communities responded to and recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Briefing 1: How communities will respond to and recover from this crisis
Briefing 2: Community resilience or resourcefulness?
Briefing 3: Grassroots action: The role of informal community activity in responding to crises
Briefing 4: Blending formal and informal community responses
Briefing 5: Volunteering through crisis and beyond: Starting, stopping and shifting
Briefing 6: Stepping up and helping out: Grassroots volunteering in response to COVID-19
Briefing 7: Towards community-led infrastructure
Briefing 8: The role and contribution of community-led infrastructure
Briefing 9: Communities and local authorities
Briefing 10: Striking a balance between communities and local authorities
Briefing 11: Power and communities
Briefing 12: Potential and limits of community power in a pandemic
Briefing 13: Community hubs as social infrastructure
Briefing 14: Sustaining community action
Briefing 15: Changing community needs and looking to the future
Briefing 16: Connecting communities? How relationships have mattered in community responses to COVID-19