Assessment of COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Rural Livelihood and their Coping Mechanism in Goyeshpur Union of Pabna District

The research intends to explore the impact of Covid-19 on people’s lives and livelihoods and suggest a range of recommendation in the name of Coping Mechanism. The prime concern of this study was to extract and analyze the impact of COVID-19 in rural section at every level of livelihoods and their copying mechanism during pandemic situation. Since this study was qualitative and quantitative in nature, I relied on convenience sampling, the most prevalent kind of non-probability sampling, in which participants were chosen at random based on how easily they could be reached. Both primary and secondary data were used for this study. Primary data were collected by house hold survey and key informant interviews. Secondary data were collected from different published and unpublished sources. Regression result and descriptive studies reveal that people's ability to make a living was negatively impacted by the pandemic's circumstances as a direct result of the difficulties produced by the restrictions imposed by the government. People were compelled to remain inside of their homes and cut off from potential sources of additional income, specifically those employed in the informal sector. In the context of diminishing household income, significant proportions of households employed a variety of coping strategies (using savings, changing occupation, sell of productive assets, took loan, support from relatives etc.) to either boost income or reduce current expenditures. This research can be helpful for the pertinent governments in implementing measures for the well-being of low-income individuals affected by this pandemic or similar future scenario. In addition, this will be a crucial for all types of researcher and policymakers for the creation and implementation of successful initiatives and programs aimed at the most vulnerable households, such as social protection and support programs.