The moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals: Evidence from suburban Accra

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dc.contributor.authorOkyere, S.A.
dc.contributor.authorMensah, S.L.
dc.contributor.authorEnning, S.B.
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-13T10:11:29Z
dc.date.available2023-11-13T10:11:29Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractIn the Global South, the COVID-19 crisis has compelled varied efforts to quickly address the pandemic’s impact on urban livelihoods. Families, friends as well as public, private, and civil society organizations have mobilized various resources to avert the pandemic’s onslaught on the survival of the urban vulnerable. Indeed, there is a burgeoning ‘pandemic urban scholarship’ that shed insights on COVID-19 risks, local responses, and impacts on everyday urban life. Yet, it is unclear how many of these responses are affecting urban livelihoods. This paper thus investigates the impact of COVID-19 on urban livelihood capitals (financial, human, social, and physical) and analyses the moderating role of COVID-19-related support (from families, friends, government agencies, faith-based and non-governmental organizations) to address the pandemic’s impact on these capitals. Drawing on a quantitative study in Adenta Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana, the study finds a negative association between COVID-19 impacts and all urban livelihood capitals. Crucially, COVID-19-related support only reduced the negative impact of the pandemic on financial capital, and not on the other forms of capital. The study suggests that building post-pandemic community resilience warrants the need to transition from the usual reactive, fragmented support to integrated, holistic, and contextually embedded long-term strategies that consider the multi-dimensionality of everyday urban life.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2023.03.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/40801
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUrban Governanceen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 impacten_US
dc.subjectUrban livelihoodsen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19-related supporten_US
dc.subjectStructural equation modellingen_US
dc.subjectPost-pandemic resilienceen_US
dc.titleThe moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals: Evidence from suburban Accraen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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