Full Coverage: Development

28.09.2006 L'utilisation rituelle ou médicinale de la Feuille de Coca a une longue histoire en Argentine et, de même que pour la langue Quechua, elle a été le fil conducteur de la Mémoire de nos Peuples. La Feuille de Coca est l'objet rituel qui véhicule la permanence et la continuation de cette Mémoire des Origines.

28.09.2006 Children who were out of school in 15 districts of Nepal now have the opportunity to learn how to read and write, thanks to the UNICEF-supported Out-of-School Programme (OSP).

28.09.2006 While the fall in the total fertility rate for the five Indian
states for which NFHS-3 results have been released is to be
welcomed, one cannot draw any general conclusion until the data for the BIMARU states comes in. The data on anaemia prevalence among women and children, however, is disturbing says Ashish Bose.

28.09.2006 Meena Day 2006 was celebrated in Dhaka and around the country on Saturday September 23rd. The theme of Meena Day this year was: Chhele Meye bibhed nai, jonmo nibondhon shobar chai meaning 'Birth registration for all, be it a boy or girl' - to draw attention to the priority the Government of Bangladesh has attached to Universal Birth Registration by 2008.

27.09.2006 The campesinos of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST, for the Portuguese initials) dreamed for years of reclaiming their land, believing that it would solve all their problems... However, the reality would prove much more difficult, for surprises they had never imagined lay ahead.

27.09.2006 The foreign minister, M Morshed Khan, delivering Bangladesh’s statement at the UN General Assembly, urged the international community to fulfil their pledges and enhance development assistance to help the LDCs attain the Millennium Development Goals.

27.09.2006 With over 100,000 people contracting sexually transmitted diseases every year, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Employers Federation of Ceylon (EFC) have decided to educate working adults on HIV/AIDS without upsetting cultural sensibilities, through a US funded factory improvement programme.

27.09.2006 Indian civil society organised a consultation to address the situations arising from the recent notification declaring ban on employment of children in domestic work, eateries and dabhas. The report provides a guideline map for the stakeholder to take effective measures for restoration and rehabilitation of working children.

27.09.2006 Global CSO network Sustainability Watch reports that market-oriented development frameworks that promote trade liberalisation and privatisation adversely impact sustainable development as they do not pay attention to environmental constraints, especially in the case of planning for land and natural resource use.

25.09.2006 For around 15 days every year she adorns the starched colourful saree to attend the board meetings of her company. For the remaining part of the year she hoists the tea pluckers bag around her shoulders and resumes her duties as a worker in the largest participatory management tea company in the world.

25.09.2006 The diffusion of Internet technology in India can take one of two routes, one elite-oriented, the other democratic. The Government seems to want to promote the second but the minimum requirement for this is credible information.

25.09.2006 The core question addressed in this paper is what explains the large inter-state disparity in child malnutrition as
manifested in stunting in India⎯ranging from 22 to 56 per cent. A perhaps surprising finding is that inter-state differences in child stunting are not directly correlated to differences in income poverty. The variables with the highest explanatory power for stunting are child health-care provision and the fertility rate.

25.09.2006 An UN report on on the Extent of Chronic Hunger and Malnutrition has said that even though India has enough food to feed its one billion people, hunger and household-level food insecurity have increased since the latter half of the 1990s.

22.09.2006 As part of its universal initiative aimed at bringing excellence in education, the Agha Khan Development Network (AKDN), a part of Agha Khan Foundation will set up the Agha Khan Academy in Hyderabad with an outlay of $ 50 million.

21.09.2006 Several developing countries are not reaching sustainable development targets fast enough despite numerous international agreements, says a report, launched here amidst criticism that World Bank energy and mining projects were not doing enough to protect the environment and improve the plight of the poor.

21.09.2006 Schools in every district of the state have been found guilty of pumping up enrolment figures in order to comply with teachers’ wishes and retain government funding

21.09.2006 The local governments have been urged to give top priority to education, health and drinking water in their budgets and to improve public delivery system in order to strengthen democracy at grass-root level

21.09.2006 Countries will only overcome the “three great challenges” of development, security and human rights if they take action together, globally and coordinated through the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a wide-ranging speech to world leaders gathered for the opening of the General Assembly’s annual debate.

20.09.2006 Developing countries must invest in young people, promoting education and health and developing essential skills, a major World Bank report says.

20.09.2006 Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty, according to a new World Development Report 2007 launched at the Bank's Annual Meetings in Singapore.