The evidence is clear: equal opportunity
for women and men in the mining sector benefits companies as
well as families and communities. While women are a major
and growing...
Type: BriefReport#: 185402Date: March 8, 2020Author:
World Bank
In recent years, Argentina has made
significant advances in improving educational opportunities
for young women, breaking discriminatory practices, and
guaranteeing...
Before the outbreak of the global novel
coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the world was already
dealing with a learning crisis, as evidenced by high levels
of Learning...
Layer farming is an income-generating
livelihood activity wherein egg-laying poultry birds are
raised by a household for the purpose of egg production on a
commercial...
Type: BriefReport#: 149101Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Newton-Lewis, Tom ;
Jha, Avadesh ;
Singh,Pratyush Ranjan ;
Nagpal, Phalasha ;
Bihari, Bipin
The adoption and diffusion of artificial
intelligence and other disruptive technologies will play an
important role in market creation and growth. Development
finance...
The Results in Education for All
Children (REACH) Trust Fund supports and disseminates
research on the impact of results-based financing on
learning outcomes. The Evidence...
Type: BriefReport#: 147833Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Sabarwal,Shwetlena ;
Asaduzzaman,T. M. ;
Lnu,Deepika Ramachandran
Urban projects hold extensive
consultations and present a good opportunity to engage
citizens equitably, and close additional gender gaps
identified by women. This urban...
Small and marginal farmers in India
struggle for access to good quality inputs in farming of
crops (seeds, fertilizers, crop protection) and livestock
(stock species,...
The main design principle behind self
help groups (SHGs) organizations of rural poor women at the
village level was to empower women by mobilizing them into
small groups,...
Achieving gender equality and empowering
all women and girls is one of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG 5). SDG7, which calls to ‘Ensure access to
affordable,...
Access to water is a key determinant of
the productivity of women entrepreneurs in the informal
sector. Men and women can have differing levels of access to
water resources,...
Because of the growing economic costs
associated with the coronavirus epidemic, many Governments
announced a set of new policy measures aimed at mitigating
the potential...
Type: BriefReport#: 148592Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Morisset,Jacques
JOHAR is a pioneer in enabling tribal
communities to be an integral stakeholder in development by
ensuring availability, accessibility and utilization of
water resources...
Local benefit sharing in wind and solar
projects is crucial to ensure that host and impacted
communities receive value from industrial projects located
on their lands,...
The JOHAR project was initiated in 2017
to aid targeted rural producer households to diversify and
enhance their household income, and achieve a significant
increase...
Type: BriefReport#: 149095Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Bihari, Bipin ;
Khanuja, Jasmeet ;
Kothari,Anand Kumar Yogen ;
Newton-Lewis, Tom
The global coronavirus crisis is a
social issue that threatens the well-being of the world’s
population, especially the elderly and those with underlying
health conditions....
Type: BriefReport#: 162156Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Odaro,Esohe Denise ;
Mignano,Kathleen Gaertner ;
Peeters,Johanna Sophie
Jharkhand's livestock production is
in the hands of marginal and landless farmers with women
accounting for over 70 percent of the production. The JOHAR
project aims...
Jharkhand has a large proportion of
marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly
practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming,
cultivating a low-yielding...
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