India and Livelihoods
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Sustainable forest management by indigenous peoples and local communities
- The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
- This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identi...
- Role of Policy and Institutions in Local Adaptation to Climate Change Case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
- N. S. Pradhan / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, 2012
- The research question that the study addresses is: How do political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards in the context of climate change in In...
- Social Protection and Children: A Synthesis of Evidence from Young Lives Longitudinal Research in Ethiopia, India and Peru
- C. Porter / Young Lives, 2010
- This paper sets out the key findings from Young Lives research into the ways that major social protection (SP) policies are impacting on children, their families and communities in Ethiopia, India and Peru. Most research and policy de...
- Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
- J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
- Impact Assessment of Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in India (2011/2012)
- Agewell Foundation, 2012
- Review of the impacts of the MIPAA in terms of what actions the Government of India has undertaken in the ten years since the plan was approved. The report argues that whilst the population of older persons in India is increasing rapi...
- Community-based vulnerability and capacity assessment of Himalayan livelihoods, enhancing climate change resilience.
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2012
- This study, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, investigates how climate and socio-economic change is affecting the livelihoods of the mountain peoples of the Himalayas. Using the community-based...
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD ...
- Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty
- Young Lives, 2011
- Working papers from the Young Lives study. Papers below date from 2010-2011. Please see the site for further selection of papers dating back to 2002. 'I'd rather be hit with a stick...Grades are sacred'...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- The rise of pensions as a development issue
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided indiv...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC)
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC), based in India, has been set up with the aim of helping evolve a path of economic development that leaves as little negative impact on the earth and its environment as possible.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
