World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Andhra Pradesh human development report 2007
This is the first Human Development Report of Andhra Pradesh. The state has several unique features-development of participatory institutions, innovative poverty alleviation programs, spectacular demographic transition, pursuit of
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Sustainable alternate livelihood avocations for coastal women in India
Fisheries form a major source of employment, income and livelihood for most of the people inhabiting the coastal region. Women in fisheries are in general labelled as imperceptible wokers as their contributions are not adequately apprehended and realized. Fishing in India is the main stay of men but women too play a major role in pre and post harvest activities.
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Gender issues in conservation - Case of Rajaji National Park, India
The eco-development programme was initiated in Rajaji National Park to elicit participation of local people in conservation. An analysis of factors influencing the participation of women and men in the eco-development programme in two villages - Ganeshpur and Gungabhogpur, adjoining Rajaji National Park was carried out.
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Congo women launched community radio station
A group of rural women have launched a community radio station in Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province. Radio Babusa FM will take up women and child welfare issues. An initiative
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"Women elected to panchayats need better training'
A large proportion of the newly elected members to the Panchayati Raj system do not get the opportunity to undergo training programmes for effective performance. The opportunity is not available to 43 per cent of them. The chief reason being
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Mainstreaming gender, engendering development: Reflections on a case study
Mainstreaming gender and engendering development has now become a part of feminist and development discourse. This paper is a case study of the mv Foundation, which has implemented its programme of "Empowering Women through Collective Action' in the Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh.
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Gender budgeting in disaster relief: Need for a new methodology
While making policies and designing disaster recovery programmes, the different gender roles and responsibilities that are socially attributed to men and women should be taken into account. The programmes should focus specifically on the women's component in the general scheme or women-specific schemes. The gender perspective should be incorporated into disaster budgeting in such a way that the vulnerable are catered to according to their specific needs.
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Shovelling for their supper
The world's biggest public-works project just got bigger. In some places it is working better than many feared; but by no means everywhere James Astill
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5.2 lakh women screened for gestational diabetes in TN
Testing protocol: The screening proved that gestational diabetes manifests during all trimesters of pregnancy. The risk of nearly 83,000 individuals developing diabetes at a later date has been reduced by a simple, low cost intervention by the Tamil Nadu government. In a first-of-its-kind programme in the country, 5.2 lakh pregnant women visiting government-run prenatal clinics were screened for gestational diabetes (GDM) during 2007-08. And 7-8 per cent were found to have elevated glucose level.
