Four months down in the blink of an eye and what can I say? What a strange time indeed. My world suddenly became a lot smaller; only seeing my housemates and occasionally my brother in person, I, along with everyone else, found my life propelled to an entirely digital setting, like something from a science fiction film.

The Civil Society Engagement Unit also found itself transferred entirely to a digital setting. On top of the usual annual schedule of country and sectoral policy and strategy consultations which will now take place in a virtual setting, we, like everyone else, prioritised the Covid 19 response and have so far organised and hosted 18 online consultations with civil society representatives to understand the needs of civil society during the crisis in our regions of operations.