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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News Snippets
>> The US state of Hawai has introduced a web service that puts patients face-to-face with doctors. Doctors hold 10-minute appointments, which can be extended for a fee. They can also file prescriptions and view patients
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Environment-friendly 'green bricks' introduced
A pilot project under Efficient and Climate Change Programme of UNDP has introduced environment-friendly 'green bricks' at Dhamrai to improve kiln efficiency in brick-making industry. Project officials yesterday said the new technology will reduce by 20 percent of average energy cost per unit bricks.
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Illuminating lives
The Government of Andhra Pradesh established the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), in the year 2000, to bring light into the lives of the rural poor. It implements two poverty reduction projects with an amount of Rs. 2000 crores. SERP's current programmes reach year by 80 lakh households of Andhra Pradesh. It is the single largest rural development programme run by government.
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Good practices in community based disaster risk management
The GOI-UNDP Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Programme envisages accelerating capacity development for disaster reduction at the national level and in some of the most-vulnerable regions in the country through community-based and gender sensitive approaches. It is designed to assist some of the most multi-hazard prone
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A new deal for displaced people: Orissa's involuntary resettlement policy
Because of its rich natural resources and the new investor friendly development policies, Orissa in recent years has become an attractive investment destination for large corporations, but the increased level of development activity has only led to displacement on a scale much larger than before.
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Human development index for rural Andhra Pradesh
The method used to measure Human Development are reviewed in order to measure Human Development Index for rural AP by considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. Using UNDP method to estimate Human Development Index, which is predominantly normative approach to club different
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Redefining tourism: experiences and Insights from rural tourism projects in India
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in India have been involved in an initiative on Rural Tourism. Covering 36 sites spread geographically over the country, these pilot project experiences had much to offer in terms of learning about the intersection between community dynamics and tourism projects.
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Water everywhere but not enough to drink
Drinking water in Bangladesh is often full of salt as rising sea levels force water further inland. Expensive technology offers solutions but who will foot the bill? Momtaj Begum, holding her baby daughter, is among hundreds of women queuing for a pitcher of drinking water at a desalinisation plant in Tafalbaria, a remote village in the Bagerhat district in south-west Bangladesh.
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UNDP installs windmill in Badin
A UNDP sponsored windmill-run water desalination plant has been installed in Badin coastal area, which provides one thousand gallons pure water per day, it was learnt on Thursday. Badin Rural Development Society, an allied NGO of Nice Link, undertook the project costing Rs 3 million.
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Endless thirst
They call it the elixir of life but with changing times, water has also become a driving force in economic activities, traditionally in agriculture, and now increasingly in the industry. No wonder, there has been a tendency to take for granted the availability of water and show scant responsibility to the understanding of the ecological processes that make it available to us.