This report was produced by the German Institute for Development Evaluation and examines media coverage of development policy during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany.
Key findings:
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In Germany, development policy is rarely mentioned on the TV news, in print media or on Twitter. When the first COVID-19 lockdown was introduced, the space given to it on the TV news and in the print media shrank even further.
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From March 2020 onwards, when development policy was mentioned in the media this usually occurred in conjunction with the topics of 'health' and 'pandemics'.
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Implication: Development actors can seek to make the relevance of development interventions more evident by pointing to the global containment of the pandemic as an example.