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Back to tradition? Local institutions and environmental management in south India
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002The power of local institutions to deal with resource management in India is being eroded and yet community initiative and participation are increasingly seen as central to environmental regeneration. The irrigation, forestry and pasture sectors have witnessed innovative community initiatives and the increasing involvement of local institutions.DocumentGiving value to natural resources: a new framework for managers
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How best can the value of natural resources be decided? Both market and non-market approaches are currently in use. Yet few assess the relative values of different uses of natural resources.DocumentWaste not want not: making the most of urban organic waste
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Solid waste management in urban areas in the south is often inadequate and under- resourced. A good deal of information does exist on the role that the formal and informal sectors could play. But what about the role of the farmer? How do farmers and livestock keepers contribute to the generation and use of urban organic waste?DocumentCoping with conflict? Meeting the needs of older people
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Who looks out for older people in a conflict or disaster? Elders, often ignored and denied precious resources in a crisis, in fact survive precisely because they have learnt over a lifetime how to cope. Why do aid agencies disregard such useful sources of knowledge?DocumentTackling the poverty-trafficking link: can the sexual abuse of children be ended?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002The child sex trade is a multibillion-dollar industry. Girls and boys are bought and sold like commodities and sexually exploited for commercial gain. What is the international community doing to end this inhumane trade? Can it succeed?DocumentBoys on film: challenging masculinities in South Asia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How can men give 100 percent support to women in their battle against violence? Does the media have a role to play? Save the Children Fund and UNICEF have examined the potential of film to help boys in South Asia question their attitudes towards gender.DocumentCalcutta casebook. How one Indian school transformed itself into a universal benchmark
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Recent research commissioned by the Education Group of the Department for International Development (India) examined contemporary models of ‘best practice’ in primary and secondary schooling, in an attempt to identify generic indicators that characterise ‘good’ schools.DocumentPollution crisis: co-operating for survival in Tamil Nadu
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Several hundred tanneries failed to treat their effluents in 1995 and were ordered by the Supreme Court of India to shut down. Their survival at stake, local tanneries joined forces to find a collective solution in the form of centralised treatment plants.DocumentSustainable perspectives? A gender analysis of environmental change
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Much attention has been paid to the relationship between poverty and environmental degradation but little of it from a gender perspective. Evidence suggests that there are differences in the environmental behaviour of men and women.DocumentFighting fears. How to help South Asia's women beat poverty and prejudice
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Two out of three of the world’s poor people are female. In South Asia, more women and girls than males never have enough to eat. Unsurprisingly, life expectancy among South Asia's women is also lower than that for males. An inquiry by UNIFEM and the Aga Khan Foundation into economic empowerment for women in South Asia set out to enquire: How does poverty among women arise?Pages