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Natural disaster preparedness and education for sustainable development
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2007Education is now recognised as playing an important role in allowing individuals and communities to prepare for disaster. It forms a key element of the Hyogo Framework for Action and is also being addressed through UNESCO’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).Documentid21 classic: Poverty and famines
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007‘Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.’ So begins Professor Amartya Sen’s ground-breaking study on famine published in 1981.DocumentNew insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs
International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007One in seven girls in the developing world marries before the age of fifteen. Nearly half of the 331 million girls in developing countries are expected to marry by their 20th birthday. At this rate, 100 million more girls—or 25,000 more girls every day—will become child brides in the next decade.DocumentCorporate social responsibility and children’s rights in South Asia
Save the Children [Sweden], 2007This document presents examples of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives within the context of children's issues in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. According to the study, CSR initiatives for children have a positive impact and in some cases can be more effective than Government or NGO led initiatives.DocumentFrom the front line: the impact of social, legal and judicial impediments to sexual health promotion, and HIV and AIDS related care and support for males who have sex with males in Bangladesh and India
Naz Foundation International, 2005This study from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) reports on the high levels of sexual violence, marginalisation and stigma experienced by males who have sex with males (MSM) in India and Bangladesh. The report finds that the primary cause of this violence is cultural gender norms rather than sexual identity, since those MSM who identify as Kothi (feminine men) are most at risk.DocumentStrategic Impact Inquiry on Women's Empowerment: Report of Year 1
CARE International, 2005This report presents the findings from the first year of CARE's Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women's Empowerment. One striking result of the inquiry was the general lack of attention within CARE to defining what is meant by women's empowerment.DocumentParticipatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff
ActionAid International, 2004This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to:DocumentWho pays?: how British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty
ActionAid International, 2007This report discusses the supply chains that link UK supermarkets to producers in developing countries. The report argues that the structure of the supermarket supply chains has changed in recent years in ways that allow supermarkets to “cherry pick” suppliers from developing economies.DocumentUnderstanding bonded child labour in Asia: an introduction to the nature of the problem and how to address it
Child Workers in Asia, 2007This document presents an overview of bonded child labour in South and Southeast Asia, and provides information on legal instruments and approaches that organisations might use to fight it.DocumentUrban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".Pages