South Asia
- Protecting Bangladesh's migrant labourers
- This 4th edition of the Protifolon series sheds light on important reforms and actions concerning labour migration from Bangladesh. It is clear that the government has undertaken serious reforms in certain areas but new areas are constantly emerging. The government may consider declaring 2012-2021 the decade of migration and undertake necessary policies and programmes to face the emerging challenges in the migration sector and to promote safe labour migration from Bangladesh.
Latest Documents
- Why Islam matters in the prevention of HIV in Asia and the Pacific
- M. Hendricks / Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, 2013
- This discussion paper examines why Islam matters in prevention efforts for HIV, what Islam and Muslim scholars say about MSM and transgender people, as well as how this impacts on the lives of MSM and transgender people and their acce...
- Investing In Communities Achieves Results: Findings from an Evaluation of Community Responses to HIV and AIDS
- R Rodriguez-García / World Bank, 2013
- Before the scale-up of the international response to the AIDS pandemic, community responses in developing countries played a crucial role in providing services and care for those affected. This study is the first comprehensive, mixed-...
- The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
- B. Bilbao-Osorio (ed); S. Dutta (ed); B. Lanvin (ed) / World Economic Forum, 2013
- The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and inn...
- Asian development outlook 2013: Asia’s energy challenge
- Asian Development Bank, 2013
- The Asian Development Outlook 2013 provides a comprehensive economic analysis at both regional- and country-levels. It begins by outlining the economic status of the region before examining the goals, challenges and strategies of stak...
- Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya
- D. Budlender; R. Moussie / ActionAid International, 2013
- This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work. The programme, which is based in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda, recognises that while all women, regardless of class, race, caste and ethn...
- Empowering rural women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through farmers’ cooperative
- Practice In Participation, 2013
- Empowering Rural Women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through Farmers’ Cooperative” narrates the success stories of the rural women of Alaknanda valley in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand; these women, with the help of Hima...
- Effective use of community participation in relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction of Alappad Panchayat post tsunami
- 2013
- This paper focuses on Sahayi’s intervention post Tsunami in 2004, in Alappad Panchayat, Kollam District. Sahayi’s intervention in the process of relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction involved a creative participatory app...
- Community participation in water and sanitation programmes
- 2013
- Gram Vikas is a voluntary organisation working in the eastern state of Orissa in India since 1979. Through the process of MANTRA (Movement and Action Network for Transformation of Rural Areas), it has been implementing a water and san...
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- Zed Books, 2013
- This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote develo...
- Putting children at the heart of disaster risk reduction
- 2013
- This issue promotes a child-centered disaster risk reduction (DRR) approach in India in order to reduce disaster risk and climate change impact on their lives and development. The content considers: (i) child centered DRR means puttin...
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