This project is a multi-round survey of citizen behaviours, experiences, and attitudes towards Covid-19-response policies in nine state capitals in Brazil. The survey questions are designed to probe the extent of compliance with each of the indicators coded as part of OxGCRT (the Oxford Government Covid-19 Response Tracker), and whether the World Health Organization's six recommendations for easing lockdown are being met on the ground.
The specific GCRF development challenge area that the project addressed was equitable access to sustainable development.
The project has two institutional partners: USP (Sao Paulo University), and EBAPE (the School of Public and Business Administration) at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, in Rio de Janeiro.
The benefits of the project include:
- Improving public understanding amongst citizens in Brazil
- Informing evidence-based policy in Brazil: both in government and in civil society
- Engaged researchers at Fiocruz, a leading public health research institution in Brazil
- Insights into aspects of the World Health Organization’s six recommendations for easing lockdown and the risk of openness in different subnational jurisdictions in Brazil
- Risk of openness is high - highlighting the need for policymakers to improve access to testing and educational materials
- Examine behavioural policy fatigue effects amongst Brazilian citizens
- Gender equity impacts: analysed the quality of access to education for girls and boys in Brazil finding that fewer boys than girls studied on most days
- Public information campaigns in Brazil: Survey data suggests that TV public-information campaigns should more clearly articulate and reinforce the appropriate behaviours for self-isolating individuals
- More support for educational materials in Brazil is needed for public school students and their teachers so that they are better able to study at home
- Inequality in access to testing in Brazil exists: Survey data from the both rounds of an original survey in nine state capitals suggests that, in July to September, poor people in Brazil had less access to testing than the rich, and that the extent of the gap had grown since May. This has implications for economic policy in improving access to testing.
The map shows how the risk of releasing closure and containment policies has changed across Brazil, and how the frequency of leaving home changed during our two survey rounds (the first collected data in May, the second in August and September).
This project was funded by the University's GCRF QR fund.