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Read about CARE International's strategic response to climate change, including their focus on: global policy engagement, adaptation, making carbon finance work for poor and marginalised people, and organisational change. They emphasise social justice, gender equality and empowerment in everything they do.
Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some have greater capacity than...
Gender discrimination and son preference are key demographic features of South Asia and are well documented for India. However, gender bias and sex preference in Nepal have received little attention.
1996 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data on ever-married women aged 15–49 who did not desire any more children were used to investigate levels of gender bias and sex...
The centrality of motherhood in the lives of Hindu women is well known, but it takes on new force with the intensive study of a particular group of contemporary Nepali women. In this case, the women are members of the Brahman and Chhetri castes believed to be representative of similar women in small villages in the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding hills. For these women childbearing is the...
One of the fundamental goals of anthropological research in Nepal must be to generate data, explanations and recommendations which can be used by policy makers to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants without causing either long or short term degradation of the environment. In particular the socio-economic systems of existing hill and mountain populations must be stabilised in their...
Nepal, as a patrilineal society, is generally characterised by the domination of women by men. As such, it is widely believed that productive activities are mainly carried out by men. Women are generally seen as being confined to household activities only, such as looking after the house, child rearing, food processing and collecting firewood. Women are not thought to be directed by economic...
It is commonly known that there is wide publicity and propaganda for the enlargement of bottle-feeding in most of the developing countries of the world. Unlike in developing countries, life in the developed countries is more complex, the standard of living is high, and the feeling of solidarity is less prevalent. The developed countries have achieved the kind of modernisation where human life...
The paucity of information on factors affecting age at menopause contrasts with the abundance of information on factors influencing age at menarche. Indeed the similar ages at menopause among various Western populations surveyed to date is noteworthy in reflecting an apparent lack of cultural, biological and environmental differences. The results of a study at middle altitude (2,300m) in the...
Theory on the social determinants of the first marriage are not well known. Anthropologists have given attention to kinship and marriage, but demographers are concerned with understanding the relation between marriage and fertility. The age at which marriage occurs in a nuclear family systems tends to be late, because the economic situation has to be strengthened to be able to set up a...
Differences are exhibited in the mortality of male and female children. It has been noted that the child death rates (1-4 years) of males are invariably higher than those of females in low mortality countries. However, in many developing countries, this pattern does not prevail. Probably the biological disadvantage of male children, are cancelled out by other factors. Higher child mortality...
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