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 and UN Women from the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. The tracker, which includes over 2,500 …
Patralekha Chatterjee The new UNDP report flags three key areas where policy interventions are needed to promote gender equality -building economic power, promoting political voice and advancing legal rights THE CASE FOR gender equality has been traditionally pitched as a human rights or a social justice argument. A new report …
The annual GDP growth rate of the country would increase by two to four per cent if nearly 70 per cent of the women were part of the work force, says a UN report. The report, brought out by the United Nations Development Project (UNDP) and released here on Monday, …
An Integrated Project for Land and Eco System Management to Combat Forest Degradation and Deforestation in Madhya Pradesh is being implemented in Madhya Pradesh for checking land and forest degradation. The five-year project will be implemented in Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria and Sidhi districts. Forest Minister Sartaj Singh informed that the …
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. This paper examines the …
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 …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence. This Act has been devised as a public works programme with a rights-based approach of providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment as income security to rural …
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. Rainwater harvesting is being practiced as an alternative and supplementary source of water in many parts of …
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. The …
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. Every year the State has faced natural …
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. The provincial and territorial secretaries, representatives of the Wapda, Economic Affairs Division, …
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). U.N. Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Ajay Chhibber, has said that the …
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
This guidance note has been prepared in response to the growing demand for guidelines to support the work of human development report teams and partners in integrating human development analysis and advocacy into more equitable, sustainable and climateresilient development planning and policy debates. The note explores each stage of report …
If you think coastal districts have high relative vulnerability to flood, then you might be wrong. For, tribal dominated non-coastal districts like Gajapati, Kalahandi, Boudh, Koraput, Kandhamal, Jharsuguda, Nabarangpur and Sundargarh are with higher risk index because of the low exposure to the population. On the other hand, lower relative …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government today decided to have an empaneled list of firms having expertise in the preparation of socio-economic feasibility report for resettlement and rehabilitation project affected people (PAP). THE Revenue Department will invite letter of consent from firms having experience of resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced families of at …
Vidya Subrahmaniam New Delhi: India ranks 134th out of 182 countries, the same as in 2006, in the 2009 Human Development Report released on Monday. China registers the largest gain in rank, moving up seven places to finish at 92. The United States dropped one place to end at 13. …
MUMBAI: In five years between 2002 and 2007, 30 BMC schools vanished from the city, stated a recently released United Nations Development Programme report on Mumbai. With the closing down of the schools, nearly 2 lakh children were also thrown out of the public education system in those five years. …
