In this call under COVID-19 Focus Funding, the DFG is inviting proposals on the topic “Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Global South”. With this subject the DFG is highlighting the countries and regions which have been particularly affected by the impacts of the pandemic due to major social dis-parities, a relatively weak economy, a high degree of informality, a lack of social security and overbur-dened health systems.

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List of funded Projects:

Subject Area	Project in GEPRIS
Modern and Current History	Crisis as catalyst: Covid-19, social citizenship and political transformation in India
Human Geography Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine	PROtecting the WELLbeing of MIGRANTS in India during the COVID-19 pandemic (PROWELLMIGRANTS)
Human Geography Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology	Uneven geographies of vaccine manufacturing in the Global South: assessing the relations between research & development and global equity
Empirical Social Research Political Science	Covid-19 in Latin America: The role of social protections for households with children
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine	Intersectoral Collaboration and Health Services during COVID19: A multi-stage, multi-level mixed-methods study in Ahmedabad, India
Empirical Social Research	Consequences of the Covid-19 crisis on Social Inequalities and Convivial Relations in Three Paraguayan Border Cities
Political Science	Populist Discourses on COVID-19 in the Global South (POP-DISC)
Human Geography	Open Markets in Ghana and Covid-19 interventions. Competing strategies of infection control and lessons for relational urban health
Political Science	Rebellion, elections and the pandemic in the Central African Republic: Covid-19 and its impact on deep-seated patterns of governance
Economic Policy, Applied Economics	Investigating Supply & Demand Side Factors of a Massive Covid-19 Vaccination Drive: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
General and Comparative Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages Applied Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Computational Linguistics	Belief states of vulnerable groups in crises in Latin America: sociolingustic and computational assessment
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine	Migrant Health at the Borders in Times of COVID-19: Assessing Gaps, Needs and Priorities in the Implementation of Human Rights-based Health Policies and Programs in the Andean Region of Latin America
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine	MItigating the effects of the paNDemic on health workers – preparing and responding (MIND)
Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology	A comparative study of COVID-19 tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda: Situating the knowns and unknowns in the COVID-19 pandemic
Political Science Empirical Social Research Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology Ecology of Land Use	In dire need of protection of life: The dynamics between health and security during the Covid19 pandemic in conflict-affected territories in Colombia
Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology	COVID-19 and pastoralism in a context of rupture and structural reforms in Benin: Learning from uncertainty management from below
General Education and History of Education Education Systems and Educational Institutions	Education Systems and COVID-19 Management in Central Africa
Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning	Urban waterscapes and the pandemic – changing water practices, technologies and infrastructures in Nairobi
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine Empirical Social Research	Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Marriage, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Domestic Violence in India and Zambia
Communication Sciences Information Systems, Process and Knowledge Management	"Spreading the Antidote – The Framing of COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns in the Brazilian Social Media Sphere"
Empirical Social Research	Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South