Given the differential effects of COVID-19 on the diverse sections of the population in urban Uganda, it was considered imperative to explore the effects of COVID-19 on food security and gender relations.
For the case of Uganda, the COVID-19 presents a range of contextual challenges due to over dependency on agriculture as the mainstay of the economy, limited resources, unsustainable food systems, unregulated markets and the already strained socioeconomic conditions such as health, food security, water scarcity and gender inequalities.
Thus the pandemic has exacerbated a situation of already high rates of hunger, malnutrition poverty, domestic violence and gender inequality in developing counties. Please send any suggestions or comments on this paper to Resty Naiga at ©Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, ABSTRACT The number of people facing food crisis in developing countries has more than doubled due to the effect of COVID-19. The PLAAS and YARA Working Papers are designed to share work in progress. However, to address equity of inclusion researchers must attend to the contingencies of children’s digital, material and social exclusion. Our research suggests that scaffolding creative activities through bespoke digital animation and asynchronous chat can facilitate children to participate in ways of their choosing. We offer examples from our arts-based, digitally mediated research to consider how researchers might work remotely, yet inclusively, in contexts where children have been marginalised and their voices silenced. We reflect on how we sought to support children’s engagement through offline and online creative activities and explore how these digitally mediated spaces can facilitate children’s inclusion, creative engagement and dialogue. Our specific focus is on how children’s inclusion can be centred in the absence of opportunities to meet in person. Our article draws on research undertaken with children during the 2020–21 COVID-19 pandemic in order to consider the potential of digitally mediated participatory research for child-centred research practice.
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