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Understanding rural local government response during COVID-19-induced lockdown: perspective from Bangladesh

This study intends to explore the responses of local government during the COVID-19-induced lockdown in the rural areas, with particular emphasis on Bangladesh. By adopting a qualitative phenomenological research approach and employing multi-method data collection techniques (for instance, Key Infor...

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Autores principales: Sohel, Md. Salman, Ehsan, Shah Md. Azimul, Zaman, Noshin Tasnim, Hossain, Babul, Shi, Guoqin, Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam, Ali, Habib Mohammad
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9520961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36193448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00516-3
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author Sohel, Md. Salman
Ehsan, Shah Md. Azimul
Zaman, Noshin Tasnim
Hossain, Babul
Shi, Guoqin
Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam
Ali, Habib Mohammad
author_facet Sohel, Md. Salman
Ehsan, Shah Md. Azimul
Zaman, Noshin Tasnim
Hossain, Babul
Shi, Guoqin
Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam
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description This study intends to explore the responses of local government during the COVID-19-induced lockdown in the rural areas, with particular emphasis on Bangladesh. By adopting a qualitative phenomenological research approach and employing multi-method data collection techniques (for instance, Key Informant Interview (KII), Focus Group Discussion (FGD), participant observation, and content analysis), this study found that the local governments managed the crisis of the pandemic relatively well with its limited manpower and funding through adequate preparedness and prevention strategies; effective emergency responses; and consolidated post-lockdown measures. The study revealed that the Bangladesh local government promptly took some essential actions, such as preparedness and prevention, arrangement of home quarantine and isolation, the training program for readiness, and disseminated crucial information to the local people during the pandemic, such as using masks, hand washing and sanitizing, and social distancing. Besides, the local government delivered relief, such as food and non-food items and financial support. Furthermore, the rural local government took post-lockdown responses to tackle pandemic in rural Bangladesh. Nevertheless, the service delivery individuals from local governance encountered numerous challenges, like scarcity of manpower, less support, and superstition, while providing services during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-95209612022-09-29 Understanding rural local government response during COVID-19-induced lockdown: perspective from Bangladesh Sohel, Md. Salman Ehsan, Shah Md. Azimul Zaman, Noshin Tasnim Hossain, Babul Shi, Guoqin Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam Ali, Habib Mohammad SN Soc Sci Original Paper This study intends to explore the responses of local government during the COVID-19-induced lockdown in the rural areas, with particular emphasis on Bangladesh. By adopting a qualitative phenomenological research approach and employing multi-method data collection techniques (for instance, Key Informant Interview (KII), Focus Group Discussion (FGD), participant observation, and content analysis), this study found that the local governments managed the crisis of the pandemic relatively well with its limited manpower and funding through adequate preparedness and prevention strategies; effective emergency responses; and consolidated post-lockdown measures. The study revealed that the Bangladesh local government promptly took some essential actions, such as preparedness and prevention, arrangement of home quarantine and isolation, the training program for readiness, and disseminated crucial information to the local people during the pandemic, such as using masks, hand washing and sanitizing, and social distancing. Besides, the local government delivered relief, such as food and non-food items and financial support. Furthermore, the rural local government took post-lockdown responses to tackle pandemic in rural Bangladesh. Nevertheless, the service delivery individuals from local governance encountered numerous challenges, like scarcity of manpower, less support, and superstition, while providing services during the pandemic. Springer International Publishing 2022-09-29 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9520961/ /pubmed/36193448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00516-3 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Zaman, Noshin Tasnim
Hossain, Babul
Shi, Guoqin
Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam
Ali, Habib Mohammad
Understanding rural local government response during COVID-19-induced lockdown: perspective from Bangladesh
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36193448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00516-3
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