This volume is an offshoot of a regional collaboration among six institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Researchers from the University of Melbourne's Informal Urbanism Research Hub and Melbourne Centre for Cities coordinated the regular international dialogues with their Asian collaborators, namely: BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) (Dhaka, Bangladesh); Karachi Urban Lab at IBA University (Pakistan); Hyderabad Urban Lab (India); De La Salle University-Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance (Manila, Philippines); and Rujak Centre for Urban Studies (Jakarta, Indonesia). This Policy Expo Book presents the COVID-19 policy measures, civil society-led initiatives and grassroots responses across three South Asian (Dhaka in Bangladesh, Delhi in India and Karachi in Pakistan) and two Southeast Asian megacities (Jakarta in Indonesia and Manila in the Philippines) that have been severely impacted by the pandemic.
About the Author: Redento B. Recio, PhD is a Research Fellow at the Informal Urbanism (InfUr) Research Hub of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (University of Melbourne).
Kazi Nazrul Fattah, PhD is an urban sociologist based at Melbourne Centre for Cities, the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Nausheen H. Anwar, PhD is the Director of Karachi Urban Lab & Professor City & Regional Planning, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi.
Noman Ahmed, PhD is currently working as Professor and Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Management Sciences at NED University.
Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, PhD is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion.
Michele Acuto, PhD is Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, where he is also Professor of urban politics and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning.
Ian Jayson Hecita is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer of Political Science and Development Studies at De La Salle University, Philippines.
Shiva Nouri is a PhD candidate in Urban Planning at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne.
