Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the existence of social solidarity: evidence from rural-urban communities in Lombok Island, Indonesia.

The COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the entire world since the beginning of 2020 is an unimaginable phenomenon. The pandemic is disastrous because it has caused loss of life and livelihood for a large part of the population. People lose their jobs, spaces for social interaction are closed, and social relationships are disrupted. Several studies show that social solidarity should be a major concern for people to sustain the future quality of their lives. Social solidarity dimensions in this study include gotong royong (local culture of mutual help), marriage banjars (local association), cooperation, and sharing of information. This study aims to examine the existence of social solidarity during the pandemic in rural and urban areas and to know the level of community exposure to COVID-19 in Lombok Island, Indonesia. This research adopted a quantitative approach to identify and analyse the existence of social solidarity in rural and urban communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. A set of questionnaires was distributed and shared by enumerators with 1,100 targeted-respondents from Lombok Island. The survey was carried out from 14th October to 28th October 2021, that is, during a recovery period from the pandemic while restrictions implemented by the government were still in full force. Chi square statistical analysis was used to test whether there were differences in social solidarity between those who lived in rural areas and those who lived in urban areas. This research found the existence of social solidarity in both rural and urban communities during the pandemic. The level of social solidarity in rural areas is higher than in urban areas. While related to the number of those who were exposed and died, conditions were higher in rural areas than in urban areas. However, in terms of the death rate, the level of death rate in urban areas is higher than in rural areas. This condition indicates differences in the characteristics of rural and urban communities, which can be considered in implementing policies during a future pandemic. This research provides evidence for local governments in formulating policies with a social solidarity perspective by taking into account the different characteristics of rural and urban communities.

Partnership in Social Work Education Along the New Silk Road: Towards a Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model

We live in a world of disruption aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of the highly divisive global discourse, we envision a different way of regional and international partnership in social work education and practice through our proactive partnership, to build hope and transformation. Social work educators from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Israel, and Vietnam, who have developed partnerships with counterparts in the countries along the New Silk Road, have come together to reflect on their partnership experiences, having developed the "Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model” consisting of four essential pillars: (1) equal partnership, (2) cultural inclusion, (3) capacity-building, and (4) social solidarity. Social work is a catalyst for social change and development, and we hope that the model can provide insights and principles to guide future development of regional and international partnerships. This will, in turn, develop context-specific authentic social work theories and practice by partnering together, engaging in participatory practice research, and making positive changes through education, research, and action with regional, international, and local partners. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Making Societies Social Again After the Crisis

The spread of the COVID-19 virus has triggered a global crisis which has profound social implications. It can be shown that the weakening of social rights and bonds caused by the constraints on welfare spending and a diminishing commitment to equality in recent social policy developments has now exacerbated social divisions. The nature of the polarization behind these cleavages has long been recognized in social work and the knowledge and experience of this profession and discipline can therefore provide essential reference points towards the re-building of social solidarity in post-Corona societies. In this project, the Global Definition of Social Work, ratified jointly by IASSW and IFSW, forms an incentive to strengthen social workers' political role in combination with their inter-personal competencies. Their commitment to practice based on social justice can lead the way towards a new political recognition of the importance of social dimensions of societies. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

The job insecurity of others: On the role of perceived national job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Political scientists and sociologists have highlighted insecure work as a societal ill underlying individuals' lack of social solidarity (i.e., concern about the welfare of disadvantaged others) and political disruption. In order to provide the psychological underpinnings connecting perceptions of job insecurity with societally-relevant attitudes and behaviors, in this article the authors introduce the idea of perceived national job insecurity. Perceived national job insecurity reflects a person's perception that job insecurity is more or less prevalent in their society (i.e., country). Across three countries (US, UK, Belgium), the study finds that higher perceptions of the prevalence of job insecurity in one's country is associated with greater perceptions of government psychological contract breach and poorer perceptions of the government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, but at the same time is associated with greater social solidarity and compliance with COVID-19 social regulations. These findings are independent of individuals' perceptions of threats to their own jobs.

Universal Basic Income, Social Justice, and Marginality: A Critical Evaluation

Struggles for economic justice have historically centered around the fight for jobs and higher wages, but universal basic income (UBI) seeks to distribute wealth outside of labor by giving every citizen an unconditional and universal minimum income. This paper critically assesses the policy ofUBI and asks what ought to be taken into consideration and addressed before the first practical implementation ofUBI on a broad scale. Three issues are outlined: UBI in relation to histories of oppression and the danger of a neoliberal universal basic income;UBI and the issues of citizenship, border imperialism, and social solidarity;and how UBI could affect the carceral system and the incarcerated. The essay argues that UBI runs the risk of reproducing precarity and inequality if not crafted with the needs of marginalized communities in mind and theorizes what a socially just UBI might look like if it was designed to confront these challenges.

Knowledge Sharing in Private Social Solidarity Institutions during Pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic period resulted in a global crisis, whether in the economy, personal or professional life. Because of the pandemic, people and institutions had to change the way they did things. Even though people are becoming more aware of the value of knowledge and it is becoming more common in some institutions, knowledge management methods are still not well known in the social sector and as a key tool for institutions in crisis. Considering the beneficial role that knowledge sharing (KS) practices play in organizations, the current study aims to investigate the impact of KS practices in Portuguese private social solidarity institutions in adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic period. To achieve the purpose and considering the exploratory nature of the research, semi-structured interviews were conducted with fifteen professionals from four private social solidarity institutions in northern Portugal. Nvivo processed the interviews. Because COVID-19 is new, there is no research on knowledge sharing in these institutions, so the study can be considered as original. Before and during pandemics, the presence of knowledge sharing practises, such as the integration of new employees, the proactivity of learning, the sharing of new ideas and mistakes, and the sharing relationship between peers and superiors and other institutions, was observed through the interviews. In this study, we discovered that trust, communication, technology, and social networks, as well as the role of leadership in creating an environment conducive to formal and informal sharing, were elements that facilitated knowledge sharing practises, even throughout the pandemics. During the interviews, both technical directors and employees acknowledged the following: the relationship between superiors and employees in decision-making processes;recognition, feedback and incentives from leaders and the presence of formal and informal communication networks. When it came to sharing, which could happen in a formal or informal setting, employees seemed to prefer informal interactions.To summarise, the institutions were able to adjust to the limits imposed by the pandemic, and the basic practises of KS are part of the daily routine of the organisations analysed. © 2022, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. All rights reserved.

Social innovation, political activism and solidarity: insights from the pandemic crisis

This article investigates the relationship between social innovation, solidarity and experiences of socio-political activism at the urban level by researching local responses to the social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in Milan and Naples. The study analyses the role of some urban self-organised groups against the social effects of isolation and the dynamics of de-politicisation and re-politicisation underlying the governance of the emergency. In addition, it highlights how the extent of the crisis can, on the one hand, push towards unprecedented coalitions potentially able to re-politicise local governance and, on the other, promote a convergence towards the logic of the ‘post-welfare city', which risks neutralising the innovative effect of the transformations. Copyright © FrancoAngeli.

THE NEED TO ELIMINATE MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION IN ISLAMIC SOCIAL FINANCE INSTITUTIONS

Semasa pandemik COVID-19, telah jelas bahawa kewangan sosial Islam (ISF) perlu diinstitusikan disebabkan ketidakcukupan kewangan komersial Islam dalam menyediakan penyelesaian kewangan yang mencukupi untuk mencapai kewangan menyeluruh. Oleh yang demikian, penumpuan ISF dengan kewangan komersial Islam sedang terserlah manakala penginstitusian ISF menunjukkan momentum global. Walau bagaimanapun, setakat ini, tiada tatacara tadbir urus komprehensif yang digubal untuk mengawal selia institusi ISF bagi membimbing institusi terbabit dalam menawarkan produk dan perkhidmatan kewangan mereka mengikut parameter Syariah termasuk mengelakkan rasuah. Oleh itu, objektif penyelidikan ini adalah untuk meneroka salah urus dan amalan rasuah yang wujud dalam mengurus ISF dan mencadangkan cara untuk mengatasinya. Bagi mencapai objektif, kajian ini menggunakan analisis dokumen sebagai metodologi penyelidikannya untuk menyemak dan membincangkan pengurusan terpilih dan amalan rasuah institusi ISF yang dilaporkan di seluruh dunia. Adalah dijangkakan bahawa penemuan dari kajian ini akan membantu penggubal dasar, badan penetapan standard untuk kewangan Islam dan institusi ISF untuk menyedari kepentingan mengamalkan amalan tadbir urus yang baik untuk membawa ISF ke peringkat seterusnya. Penyelidikan lanjut boleh dijalankan untuk mengkaji keberkesanan menerima pakai amalan tadbir urus yang baik oleh institusi ISF dan implikasi menerima pakai amalan tersebut.Alternate :During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became apparent that Islamic social finance (ISF) must be institutionalised due to inadequacies of Islamic commercial finance in providing adequate financial solutions to achieve financial inclusion. As such, the convergence of ISF with Islamic commercial finance is emerging while institutionalisation of ISF is gaining momentum globally. However, so far, there is no comprehensive governance code enacted to regulate the ISF institutions to guide them in the offering of their financial products and services within the parameters of Shari'ah, which include avoidance of corruption. Therefore, the objective of this research is to explore the existing mismanagement and corrupt practices found in managing the ISF and to recommend ways to overcome them. To meet its objective, this study adopts document analysis as its research methodology to review and discuss the selected management and corrupt practices of ISF institutions reported worldwide. It is anticipated that findings of this paper would assist policymakers, standard-setting bodies for Islamic finance, and ISF institutions to realise the significance of adopting good governance practices to take ISF to the next level. Further research could be undertaken to study the effectiveness of adopting good governance practices by ISF institutions and the implications of adopting such practices.

Measuring Social Solidarity During Crisis: The Role of Design Choices

Building on our previous work, we assess how social solidarity towards migrants and refugees has changed before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, by collecting and analyzing a large, novel, and longitudinal dataset of migration-related tweets. To this end, we first annotate above 2000 tweets for (anti-) solidarity expressions towards immigrants, utilizing two annotation approaches (experts vs. crowds). On these annotations, we train a BERT model with multiple data augmentation strategies, which performs close to the human upper bound. We use this high-quality model to automatically label over 240 000 tweets between September 2019 and June 2021. We then assess the automatically labeled data for how statements related to migrant (anti-)solidarity developed over time, before and during the COVID-19 crisis. Our findings show that migrant solidarity became increasingly salient and contested during the early stages of the pandemic but declined in importance since late 2020, with tweet numbers falling slightly below pre- pandemic levels in summer 2021. During the same period, the share of anti-solidarity tweets increased in a sub- sample of COVID-19-related tweets. These findings highlight the importance of long-term observation, pre- and post-crisis comparison, and sampling in research interested in crisis related effects. As one of our main contributions, we outline potential pitfalls of an analysis of social solidarity trends: for example, the ratio of solidarity and anti-solidarity statements depends on the sampling design, i.e., tweet language, Twitter-user accounts' national identification (country known or unknown) and selection of relevant tweets. In our sample, the share of anti-solidarity tweets is higher in native (German) language tweets and among 'anonymous' Twitter users writing in German compared to English-language tweets of users located in Germany. © 2020 Tsinghua University Press.

Vavřička and Others v. The Czech Republic

For the Court, this conclusion was bolstered by the observations that vaccination was not administered against the will of the applicants;that there is no consensus between member states over a single model to achieve the highest level of vaccination;that the introduction of a legal duty to vaccinate children raises sensitive moral or ethical issues;and that the case concerns matters of healthcare policy (paras. 276–79). [...]the Court considered that the measure satisfied the proportionality test. Furthermore, the Court underlined the temporal nature of the exclusion, as all children—also when not vaccinated—can still be enrolled in primary school (para. 307). [...]the Court concluded that the Czech Republic had not overstepped its margin of appreciation and consequently that there was no violation of the right to private life (paras. 310–11). [...]the Court held, also by sixteen votes to one, that it was unnecessary to examine separately the complaints of the five child applicants under Article 2, Protocol No. 1 in light of the previous findings under Article 8 (para. 345).

Principles Of Humanity & Social Solidarity: Indian Perspective

Humanity is a revolutionary & hypothetical concept and base of human rights. Right is a beauty, ability, quality, liability, power as well as the dignity of the individual itself. Without humanity cannot successfully the goal of human rights. Humanity is the mother of all freedom, respect, equality, and fraternity;it is the commitment of a strong civilized society. Rule of Law, access to justice have also encapsulated the concept of humanity. It is not new concepts that are already prevailing initially from the society. Every moment of the country depends on humanity;if humanity is escaped from society definitely, peace and security already would be missing out. It is realized the value of power, security, peace, the value of life, economic values, equalitarian values, ethical values, educational values, and skill labour, environmental values, etc. during the Coronavirus pandemic. Humanity is a strong weapon, tool, and technique itself and helped to resolve all unrespectable phenomenon's in society. Human right is a pillar of liberal and constitutional democracy. International communities are also connected through the humanity & Human Rights principles to each other. It is the backbone of all relationships from individual to individual, society to the individual, state to state, and state to the international community. This paper focused on the essence of humanity, the need of exploring humanity and social solidarity as well as how connected and managed the legal system through it. Social solidarity theory focused on internal awareness of individual and increased ethics, the value of life, and promotion of duty, etc. the method of research study is descriptive and analytical through the legal document. The conclusion of the research study social solidarity & humanity is dynamic concepts and inherent in the rule of law and the concept of justice.

"Nem Tudo é Perdido, Nem Tudo é Ruim": As Articulações do Coletivo Vozes da Rua para o Enfrentamento à Pandemia da Covid-19 em Juiz de Fora – MG

O presente trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa qualitativa sobre a militância cultural periférica, a partir da formaçao de estrategias de luta mobilizadas pelo Coletivo Vozes da Rua no enfrentamento da pandemia da Covid-19 no municipio de Juiz de Fora-MG. Analisamos a coalizão formada pelo Coletivo Vozes da Rua e os movimentos sociais Levante Popular da Juventude e Movimentos dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST), que formou a campanha "Periferia Viva", iniciativa nacional de solidariedade aqueles que sofreram perdas substanciais durante a pandemia. Buscamos compreender como o processo de constr

Predicting the role of coping factors on pandemic-related anxiety.

The year 2020 saw the emergence of a worldwide pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Measures against further spread of the virus were taken nearly everywhere in the world. Many countries also imposed social distancing rules and lockdowns on their population. This situation has caused a lot of fear and insecurity, along with reactance and even unrest in some countries. In this study, we measured the psychological concepts of resilience, reactance, positive schemas, social solidarity, and anxiety among psychiatric patients and in how far these factors influence their psychopathological anxiety during the pandemic. The aim was to better understand in what ways these factors influence pandemic anxiety to be able to reduce its negative psychological effects. Findings show a significant effect of positive schemas and social solidarity on the level of pandemic anxiety in a sample of psychiatric patients, but no correlation between resilience or reactance and pandemic anxiety. Based on these insights, the inclusion of positive schemas and social solidarity for therapy should be considered. Looking deeper into the relation between positive schemas and pandemic anxiety could provide insight into the different ways that schemas influence people's anxiety and determine whether some of them are particularly important.

Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19: Refugee Experiences in Brazil

Refugees have adopted solidarity actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, even after being left behind during health emergencies. This article contributes to the literature on solidarity and asylum by discussing refugees' solidarity narratives towards vulnerable Brazilian groups, the refugee community, and the Brazilian population in general. The author conducted 29 in-depth semi-structured interviews with refugees living in Brazil between March 27 and April 6, 2020. Refugees' past suffering experiences make them more empathic to other people's suffering due to the pandemic, which creates an inclusive victim consciousness that seems to explain their solidarity narratives towards different groups.Alternate :Les réfugiés adoptent des actions de solidarité pendant la pandémie de COVID-19, même en étant laissés derrière en situation d'urgence sanitaire. Cet article contribue à la littérature sur la solidarité et l'asile en abordant les récits de solidarité des réfugiés envers les groupes vulnérables du Brésil, la communauté des réfugiés et la population brésilienne en général. J'ai mené 29 entrevues approfondies semi-structurées avec des réfugiés vivant au Brésil entre le 27 mars et le 6 avril 2020. Les expériences de souffrance passées des réfugiés les rendent plus empathiques envers la souffrance vécue par d'autres en raison de la pandémie, ce qui crée une conscience de victime inclusive (Vollhardt, 2015) qui semble expliquer leurs récits de solidarité envers différents groupes.

Portuguese social solidarity cooperatives between recovery and resilience in the context of covid-19: preliminary results of the COOPVID Project

La covid-19 planteó varios retos a todas las organizaciones en general y, especialmente, a las cooperativas de solidaridad social. Sin embargo, los desafíos que enfrentan estas cooperativas tienen características únicas que provienen de las características especiales en comparación con el otro tipo de cooperativas. Por lo tanto, es vital estudiar estos desafíos y los impactos de covid-19. Este estudio tiene como objetivo principal entender esos retos e impactos. Se realizó un estudio exploratorio realizando 11 entrevistas a 11 cooperativas de solidaridad social. Las cooperativas fueron elegidas por ser heterogéneas entre las cooperativas existentes en Portugal. Este estudio corresponde a la primera fase de un proyecto que aún está en marcha. Este artículo presenta los principales resultados del análisis de contenido de los datos recogidos con las entrevistas. Los datos muestran que las cooperativas pudieron adaptarse rápidamente y continuar con su misión bajo la presión de la pandemia, a pesar de las primeras dificultades presentadas en una situación nueva y desconocida, mostrando una capacidad de adaptación y de servicio a sus socios. Sin embargo, estos socios también se vieron sometidos a varios retos nuevos y crecientes. Las adaptaciones fueron posibles gracias a los cambios legales en la ley de organización del trabajo, desde el despido hasta el teletrabajo, al apoyo gubernamental que implica programas financieros, al IVA y a la flexibilización de otros impuestos, así como a la reorganización de los recursos humanos y a la actitud positiva del personal de las cooperativas ante las dificultades (tanto de los dirigentes como de los trabajadores en general). Las diferencias entre las cooperativas de solidaridad social estudiadas en relación con las tecnologías digitales mostraron que las que ya contaban con alguna infraestructura tuvieron pequeñas dificultades para adaptarse.Alternate :Covid-19 posed several challenges to all organisations in general and to social solidarity cooperatives in particular. However, the challenges faced by these cooperatives have unique features arising from their special characteristics compared to other types of cooperatives. Therefore it is vital to study these challenges and the impacts of covid-19. This study has as main goal to understand those challenges and their impact. An exploratory study was undertaken by applying 11 interviews to 11 social solidarity cooperatives. The cooperatives were chosen to be heterogeneous among the existent cooperatives in Portugal. This study corresponds to the first phase of a project that is still underway. This article presents the main results of the content analysis of the data collected from the interviews. Data show cooperatives could promptly adapt and continue their mission under pressure from the pandemic despite the first difficulties encountered in a new and unknown situation, showing a capacity to adapt and serve their members. However, these members were also submitted to several increasing and new challenges. The adaptations were possible due to legal changes in the work organisa- tion law, from layoff to telework, government support involving financial programs, VAT, and other tax relaxation, as well as due to human resources reorganisation and the cooperatives' staff positive attitude towards the difficulties (both leaders and general workers). Differences between the social solidarity cooperatives under study concerning digital technologies showed that those already having some infrastructure had minor adapting difficulties.

Hope and despair at the time of pandemic

Davoudi and Ormerod talks about hope and despair at the time of pandemic. On Mar 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic, stressing that we're in this together. The trope, which is often elevated at the time of crisis, evokes different emotions and serves different purposes. On the one hand, it is an expression of solidarity and a call for global cooperation. On the other hand, it is an invocation of the parity of sufferings and sacrifices. In the context of the pandemic, it is used to suggest that the virus does not discriminate and can affect porters and cleaners as well as princes and prime ministers. However, this narrative overlooks the profoundly unequal health, social and economic impacts of the pandemic. More importantly, unlike the virus itself, which is novel and unknown, its uneven health, social and economic impacts are neither new nor unexpected.

Trust in Institutions, Social Solidarity, and the Perception of Social Cohesion in the Republic of Moldova in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Research shows that social cohesion is crucial to the promotion of public health and the response to pandemic disease. This paper discusses a few key aspects of social cohesion in Moldova in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely trust in the government, social solidarity, and the perception of social cohesion. The article uses data from two sources: first from in-depth interviews carried out in May 2020 with 95 people of high status, and then from a nationally representative survey conducted in July 2020. We also compared the case of Moldova with those of other European countries regarding trust in institutions and success in combating the pandemic. The paper suggests that awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic was correlated with socioeconomic status, education, and by respondents’ trust in institutions. The interviewees participating in the qualitative research defined social cohesion as the observance of health rules and suggested that solidarity and social support were uneven during the crisis.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Related to COVID-19 Testing: A Rapid Scoping Review.

Testing programs for COVID-19 depend on the voluntary actions of members of the public for their success. Understanding people's knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to COVID-19 testing is, therefore, key to the design of effective testing programs worldwide. This paper reports on the findings of a rapid scoping review to map the extent, characteristics, and scope of social science research on COVID-19 testing and identifies key themes from the literature. Main findings include the discoveries that people are largely accepting of testing technologies and guidelines and that a sense of social solidarity is a key motivator of testing uptake. The main barriers to accessing and undertaking testing include uncertainty about eligibility and how to access tests, difficulty interpreting symptoms, logistical issues including transport to and from test sites and the discomfort of sample extraction, and concerns about the consequences of a positive result. The review found that existing research was limited in depth and scope. More research employing longitudinal and qualitative methods based in under-resourced settings and examining intersections between testing and experiences of social, political, and economic vulnerability is needed. Last, the findings of this review suggest that testing should be understood as a social process that is inseparable from processes of contact tracing and isolation and is embedded in people's everyday routines, livelihoods and relationships.

"It's Like a Kick in the Teeth": The Emergence of Novel Predictors of Burnout in Frontline Workers During Covid-19.

The context of Covid-19 has offered an unusual cultural landscape for examining how workers view their own position relative to others, and how individuals respond to prolonged exposure to workplace stress across different sectors and cultures. Through our recent work tracking the well-being of frontline workers in the UK and Ireland (the CV19 Heroes project), we have uncovered additional psychological factors that have not been accounted for in previous models of occupational stress or burnout. In recent months, frontline workers have worked to protect the community from the threat of SARS-CoV-2 and, simultaneously, have evaluated their perceptions of collective efforts of others as either congruent or incongruent with collective goals (e.g., lowered mortality and morbidity): we call this novel aspect solidarity appraisal. These frontline workers have been hailed as heroes, which we argue has led to the creation of an implicit psychological contract (the hero contract) between frontline workers and the public. Here, the heroes are willing to "go above and beyond" for the greater good, with the expectation that we (the public) do our part by adhering to public health guidelines. Where frontline workers perceive incongruence between the words and actions of others in working toward collective goals this drives negative affect and subsequent burnout. In this perspective article, we evaluate the cultural context of the pandemic in the UK and Ireland and suggest important socio-cultural factors that contribute to perceptions of solidarity, and how this may relate to burnout and worker welfare during and beyond the pandemic context.

Policy Responses and Social Solidarity Imperatives to Respond the COVID-19 Pandemic Socioeconomic Crises in Ethiopia.

BACKGROUND: The study evaluated the public administration's policy responses and imperatives of social solidarity to reduce the havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has not only posed a serious health threat but also brought economic, sociocultural and psychological crises to human beings all over the world. The study was conducted to give a clear picture of the COVID-19 pandemic socioeconomic crises in Ethiopia and policy responses given as well as the imperatives of social organizations in Ethiopia to tackle these challenges. PURPOSE: This article aimed to explore the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the socio-economic activities of Ethiopia and evaluate the effectiveness and limitations of the policy response given by the public administration vis-à-vis the role of social solidarity to reduce the calamity of the pandemic. METHODS: Qualitative research approach has been used and data were analyzed using narration, description, and exploration analysis method. RESULTS: The findings of the study revealed that the policy responses given by the public administration and the solidarity of social organizations played great role in minimizing the socio-economic crises that the pandemic entailed. Policy responses had limitations and lack of appropriate institutional implementation platforms. CONCLUSION: The policy responses given by the public administration to alleviate the socio-economic crises caused by the pandemic have both success and limitations. Social organizations played a paramount role in alleviating the COVID-19 socio-economic crises on vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.