<p>This project is&nbsp;using&nbsp;high-frequency phone surveys to dynamically track the impact of COVID-19 over a three-month period.Researchers already have baseline data on a sample of 1,250 households randomly selected from rural villages in Western Uganda.These baseline surveys were conducted during the start of March 2020, before any restrictions began or cases of COVID-19 occurred in Uganda.</p>

<p>Lockdowns and social distancing strategies in response to COVID-19 threaten small businesses, undermining a critical income source for vulnerable populations.Sudden economic hardship, psychosocial risks, and uncertainty about the future trigger stress and anxiety.Imagery could help as a tool to boost resilience in response to the pandemic by enabling individuals to recognize its temporariness, innovate, mentally simulate contingency plans, and practice steps to recover.Between July and December 2019, an interdisciplinary research team developed and implemented an entrepreneurship program combined with imagery techniques through an RCT in partnership with the local government of Bogotá.</p>

<p>Young Lives longitudinal survey began in 2001, with two cohorts, one born in 2000 (8,000 children) and one born in 1994 (4,000 children).Young Lives had planned to undertake a sixth round of quantitative fieldwork in 2020, now replaced with a Computer-Assisted-Telephone-Survey (CATI) comprising three phone calls.&nbsp; Call 1 (June-July 2020): Explain the phone survey this year and in-person gain consent for the main survey.</p>