Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
This document is intended to assist water development practitioners, civil society peacebuilders, and human rights advocates seeking to integrate water and peacebuilding in their work. The purpose is twofold: to furnish a conceptual framework for understanding problems of scarcity and equity, and to provide practical guidance and tools for action. …
This report by SIWI shows why water is critical for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Addresses interrelation of water and climate change in the context of livelihoods, land, ecosystems, transboundary management, energy & gender. This report by Stockholm International Water Institute demonstrates why water is critical for climate change adaptation …
Even 25 years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, there are several families in Bhopal where the women are not getting married. If in some cases, the gas-affected women are suffering from gynaecological disorders, in others no family is ready to take them in marriage suspecting that either the woman would …
Management of water resources is crucial for supporting livelihoods, particularly marginal communities. The study aims at understanding the livelihood patterns of fishermen within the Tungabhadra sub basin, a tributary of river Krishna located in peninsular India. Household surveys, focus group discussions and interviews were carried out in order to understand …
Kumar Shakti Shekhar | Bhopal Even 25 years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, there are several families in Bhopal where the women are not getting married. If in some cases, the gas-affected women are suffering from gynaecological disorders, in others no family is ready to take them in marriage suspecting …
There was never a doubt that the i-pill and other emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) would prove to be immensely popular among women in India when they were introduced two years ago. That's because India records 11 million abortions annually and a shocking 20,000 women die because of abortion-related complications. What …
Around 5,000 children under the age of five die in India every day, according to a latest Unicef report. With malnutrition rates continuing to be high, 96 per cent of children who die belong to the scheduled tribes, 88 per cent to scheduled castes and 59 to general population. "It …
Mumbai: Giving a new angle to the climate change the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) today said family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts. The influence of human …
United National Population Fund released its State of World Population Report-2009 at a grand programme held on Thursday at Hotel Palash, TT Nagar. The report of this year has been focused on "facing a changing world women, population and climate". Dr Prakash Deo, UNFPA, State Programme Coordinator welcomed the delegates …
How a waste recycling project in Kerala has helped to transform the community around it is an amazing story, to say the least. It is the story which has the potential to be replicated across India.
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 …
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate …
As part of its capacity building efforts, ENERGIA held a regional training of trainers and practitioners on gender mainstreaming in energy projects. The training was held in October 2007 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Programme staff of the Lao Biogas Pilot Program (BPP) participated at the training and also participated in …
The fireless cooker is a little-used but valuable technology, comprising an insulated basket into which pre-heated food is left to cook in its own heat. During the recent Practical Action smoke alleviation project, the first fireless cooker demonstration used very smart baskets and expensive foodstuffs. The women felt it was …
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change as they make up the majority of the world's 1,5-billion people living on less than $1 a day and the climate-change debate needs to be reframed putting people at the centre,concludes this annual report released by UNFPA. How do population dynamics affect …
