Rural poverty
- 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...
- Improving employment prospects for the young in the MENA region
- International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
- The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region presents the largest cohort of youth after sub-Saharan Africa, with young people making up 20 per cent of the total population in NENA. Ths paper, prepared for the 34th session of the...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter ...
- Poor sanitation and water logging challenges in rural Malawi
- J.W. Mtungila; V. Chipofya / National Research Council of Malawi, 2007
- Sanitation remains one of the pillars of good health in Malawi. This study aims at finding ways for improving sanitation for rural people living in areas with water logged sandy soils. It also looks at the mode of construction o...
- Adaptive social protection - a framework for adjusting to climate change
- M. Davies; J. Leavy / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider...
- Encouraging agricultural livelihoods without considering climate change: Ethiopian case study
- R. Cipryk / Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009
- This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine ho...
- Effective service delivery to women in remote rural areas in Peru
- Pro Mujer, 2010
- Pro Mujer is an organisation in Latin America supporting women with loans, healthcare and training. This is the first of a new series called: Product Innovation Notes, communicating lessons from their New Markets project. This issue r...
- Pro Mujer
- Women's development and microfinance organisation in Latin America
- Access to credit not necessarily a determinant of poverty reduction
- A. Diagne; M. Zeller / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit services. Because the poor do not meet the traditional criteria for borrowing, financial institutions perceived them as bad credit risks. More recently, deve...
- Improving rural and urban pension provision in China
- R. Herd; Y.-W. Hu; V. Koen / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
- China’s population is ageing fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. Migration of the young to urban areas is raising the proportion of the elderly in the rural population and the increase in the old-age de...
- Improving employment prospects for the young in the MENA region
- International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
- The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region presents the largest cohort of youth after sub-Saharan Africa, with young people making up 20 per cent of the total population in NENA. Ths paper, prepared for the 34th session of the...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter ...
- Poor sanitation and water logging challenges in rural Malawi
- J.W. Mtungila; V. Chipofya / National Research Council of Malawi, 2007
- Sanitation remains one of the pillars of good health in Malawi. This study aims at finding ways for improving sanitation for rural people living in areas with water logged sandy soils. It also looks at the mode of construction o...
- Adaptive social protection - a framework for adjusting to climate change
- M. Davies; J. Leavy / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider...
- Encouraging agricultural livelihoods without considering climate change: Ethiopian case study
- R. Cipryk / Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009
- This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine ho...
- Effective service delivery to women in remote rural areas in Peru
- Pro Mujer, 2010
- Pro Mujer is an organisation in Latin America supporting women with loans, healthcare and training. This is the first of a new series called: Product Innovation Notes, communicating lessons from their New Markets project. This issue r...
- Access to credit not necessarily a determinant of poverty reduction
- A. Diagne; M. Zeller / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit services. Because the poor do not meet the traditional criteria for borrowing, financial institutions perceived them as bad credit risks. More recently, deve...
- Improving rural and urban pension provision in China
- R. Herd; Y.-W. Hu; V. Koen / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
- China’s population is ageing fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. Migration of the young to urban areas is raising the proportion of the elderly in the rural population and the increase in the old-age de...
- Income generation potential from walnut-fruit forests in rural Kyrgyzstan
- J. Pfund (ed); P. Robinson (ed) / Intercooperation, 2006
- NTFPs from walnut-fruit forests in rural Kyrgyzstan have the potential to contribute to poverty alleviation in the region. This can only occur through the reform of institutional arrangements regarding access to these products. The au...
- Directions for pro-poor forestry in Kyrgyzstan and surrounding Central Asian countries
- R.J Fisher; Kaspar Schmidt; Brieke Steenhof / Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2004
- Though forests occupy a relatively small proportion of West and Central Asia, they have historically been important to the people living in and around them.This paper examines the potential of forestry in Kyrgyzstan for poverty reduct...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Pro Mujer
- Women's development and microfinance organisation in Latin America
- Andes/Amazon Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) program (ESPA-AA)
- A research project focusing on ecosystems services and poverty in the Andes and Amazon
- Agros International
- US-based international CSO working to combat rural poverty in Central America and Mexico. Agros International is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty for rural families in Central America and Mexico by enabling landless communities to achieve land ownership and economic stability. Having learned that the root causes of poverty extend across communities and are passed down from generation to...
- WWF South Pacific programme
- Promoting environmental sustainibility and socio-economic development in the South Pacific
- CHF (CHF)
- Canadian NGO working to enable poor rural communities to attain sustainable livelihoods
- International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD)
- Network about mobility and transport in rural areas
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
