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Title: | Rapid livelihood assessment : impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the Maldives |
Authors: | Ministry of Economic Development UNDP |
Keywords: | COVID-19 crisis Macroeconomy Tourism sector employment Economic impacts Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Ministry of Economic Development UNDP |
Citation: | MED., & UNDP. (2020). Rapid livelihood assessment : impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the Maldives. Male’, Maldives: Ministry of Economic Development. Retrieved from https://www.trade.gov.mv/news/med-undp-rapid-livelihood-assessment-report-summary-and-full-report25082020 |
Abstract: | This report is commissioned by the Ministry of Economic
Development, the Government of Maldives. The
assessment was completed with support from UNDP
Maldives. To address the sensitivity of time and urgent
need to understand the context, a preliminary report
was released in early June 2020 with initial findings and
recommendations. This final report is a compendium of
three separate reports. They include: Part I: Economic
Overview; Part II: Employment Impact; and, Part III:
Impact on MSMEs.
The rapid assessment aimed to understand the extent
and nature of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the
Maldivian economy. More specifically, the assessment
covers the impact on employment and Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The overall purpose
of the assessment was to support timely economic
response and recovery planning for the Maldives. This
report summarizes the key information and key findings
from Part II and III.
This report, Part I of the Rapid Livelihood Assessment,
provides an overview of key economic sectors. The
data presented below offers a pre-COVID-19 baseline
context of the economy, with updates of available
administrative data, that attempts to capture the onset
and impact of the crisis on key economic sectors from
February 2020 onwards. A deeper look at the impact of
the crisis on tourist establishments and their operations
is covered in subsequent sections of this report. The
analysis highlights relevant policy responses that have
been put in place in response to the crisis.
To guide the direction and scope of the assessment,
and to provide technical support and quality assurance
to the data collection, a technical team composed of
key partners was formed (see list of technical members
above). The technical team met regularly and has to
date provided support to develop the assessment
methodology, data collection tools and provided quality
assurance on reporting and analysis.
The assessment methodology applied a mixed-method
approach and utilized quantitative and qualitative data.
The assessment attempted to cover overall impacts
of the crisis on employment and businesses across all
economic sectors through secondary data that was
available. Primary data collection and in-depth analysis
of the assessment focused primarily on the tourism
sector. Tourism sector impacts were explored in detail
as it is the largest industry and the largest source of
private sector employment in the economy and it is the
industry which was exposed to the COVID-19 crisis from
its onset in February 2020.
For the Part II of the assessment, to understand
employment impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, key
secondary data sources that were reviewed and
analysed include the latest tourism employment data
shared by the National Bureau of Statistics and dataset
extracted from the Government’s online job portal,
JobCenter.mv covering 7,500 individuals across all
economic sectors. The Government’s online job portal
hosted by the Ministry of Economic Development is
the primary avenue for lodging complaints concerning
COVID-19 related employment impacts and for
seeking income support from the Government’s relief
programme. Primary data collection undertaken for
the Part II of this assessment include (i) phone survey
with management level respondents covering a total of
34 resorts out of 40 sampled, which were completed
during April to June period. The 34 resorts interviewed
employs 30 percent of the total employee population
of the resort establishments in the Maldives and
(ii) in-depth key informant interviews with 30 resort
employees registered in JobCenter.mv covering 13
resorts were completed during the last week of April
2020. The detailed sampling strategy for the selection
of respondents for the resort management survey and
the in-depth interviews with employees are provided in
the Appendix of the Part II of this publication.
For the Part III of the assessment exploring the impact of
the crisis on MSMEs, a key secondary data source that
was used was the MSME baseline survey data collected
by the Business Center Corporation (BCC) from March
to April 2020. The baseline survey was undertaken
across all economic sectors and across all regions of
the Maldives. Other secondary data reviewed include
the various surveys and reports published by business
associations.5 Primary data collection undertaken for
the assessment include 67 in-depth key informant
interviews and focus group discussions covering
MSMEs in the tourism value chain was completed during
the period mid-June to early July 2020. The detailed
sampling strategy for identifying respondents for the
in-depth interviews with businesses are found in the
Appendix of the Part III of this publication. Other aspects
of the methodology including limitations are detailed in
Part II and III of the publication.
The final reporting of this assessment was undertaken
during July to early August 2020. The draft report was
reviewed by the technical advisory team members,
members of the UN Maldives Socio-Economic Working
Group on COVID-19 and technical experts at the UNDP
Global Policy Network (GPN) and thematic experts at
the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH). Editing and
additional quality assurance support was provided by
the UNDP BRH and UNDP Maldives. |
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