COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
<p>Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP
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Harnessing international institutions to address climate change
Most discussions about using international institutions to address climate change focus narrowly on the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, many other international institutions also have a significant role to play in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change.
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Medicinal plants under stress
To find out which medicinal plants are becoming extinct and if climate change is really the only reason Civil Society spoke to DK Ved, director of the Foundation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), in Bangalore. FRLHT has done pioneering work on medicinal plants and Indian systems of medicine.
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Piloting innovations in NREGS: The plus factors
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence.
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2-day workshop on carbon trading from
Housing and Environment Department and Environment Planning and Coordination Organisation (EPCO) organising a two-day national workshop on
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Islamabad to harvest run-off water
ISLAMABAD: The city managers have evolved a plan for harvesting domestic and rain run-off and initiated several measures to keep water clean by not allowing activities that caused pollution in the catchment areas.
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NREGS flop in Punjab, Haryana; hit in HP
An assessment of the implementation of the much-celebrated National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) of the Centre for Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh has found that the scheme has had the least impact on Punjab followed by Haryana. However, the scheme has met with substantial success in Himachal Pradesh.
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UNDP institutes disaster management department
IMPHAL, Jan 4: The Union Government, under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) disaster-risk management programme has instituted the Relief and Disaster Management Department as a State Nodal Agency. Manipur has also been identified as among the six seismic zones of the world.
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$2 million approved for Wetlands Programme
Ministry of Environment on Friday approved 2 million dollar for the Pakistan Wetlands Programme to execute the work plan of 2010. This was announced by the Federal Secretary for Environment Kamran Lashari while chairing a high level meeting.
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UNDP for a development deal on climate issues
P.S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: A development deal at the prospective climate conference in Copenhagen is very important for global energy security, according to a top official of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Sikh eco-plan presented at conclave
Sikh environmental activists, Baba Sewa Singh and Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, from Punjab were among 200 leaders who gathered at Windsor Castle, near London, to participate in a three-day conference organised from November 2 to 4, which aimed at inviting the attention of world