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HIV/AIDS in the south-east Asia region
World Health Organization, 2010This annual progress report, published by the World Health Organisation (WHO), presents key achievements in prevention and control of HIV in the South-East Asia Region and highlights areas where further work is needed.Key findings of this report are:DocumentBanking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Development Fund, Norway, 2011The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that:OrganisationWomen and Children First (UK)
Advocacy and research organisation working to improve maternal and newborn health.DocumentPeople and protected areas: id21 insights, issue 57
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005For many threatened plants and animals, protected areas are a vital refuge in the face of declining natural habitats. However, across the world they face increasing pressures. Some conservation policies are also disadvantageous for local people. What does the future hold for protected areas?DocumentTowards pro-poor innovation: id21 insights, issue 68
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007We live in a rapidly changing world. Technological advances are increasing productivity and income, quality of life and life expectancy… in the developed world, that is. The truth is that technological development is focused on meeting the wants of rich consumers. Scant attention is paid to the vital needs of people in the developing world. Articles included:DocumentRecognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girlsOrganisationJournal of Agriculture and Environment
The Journal of Agriculture and Environment is devoted to the cause of advancing understanding on the various aspects of Agriculture, Farming Systems and Environment through literature review, theoretiDocumentVulnerability through the eyes of the vulnerable: climate change induced uncertainties and Nepal's development predicaments
Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a “white spot,” a region about which scientific information on climate change is limited or lacking altogether.DocumentNepal’s political rites of passage
International Crisis Group, 2010Nepal’s transition from war to peace seems to be chaotic and many have warned of impending anarchy entailing collapse of the social order and the fragmentation of the nation. This, however, is not the case because the transition, though messy and confusing, is not anarchic due to the existence of some form of order within the political change.Pages
