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Half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years. With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of national regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child – boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream.
Household contributions to education are steep...
User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. For those who do pay, over 100 million are pushed into poverty each year. This month will witness a global opportunity for world leaders to really make a difference to poor people by backing the expansion of free health care in a number...
The Third International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 18-24 February 2009. The event was organised jointly by the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the RING Alliance of Policy Research Organisations.
The event consisted of three days of...
Climate change affects poor people in particular, because of their weak adaptive capacities. Development projects of all kinds can strengthen or weaken those capacities and at the same time, they can influence greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore important to evaluate the impacts of development projects on adaptive capacities and climate change mitigation. This process is called climate...
Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid, given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and other vital social services. The European Commission (EC) is one of the biggest donors providing this kind of essential budget support, and has innovative plans to further improve and increase this aid. European Union (EU)...
Les gouvernements des pays en développement ont désespérément besoin d'une aide publique plus prévisible et à plus long terme, fournie à travers leurs budgets, afin de financer l'expansion des services de soins de santé, d'éducation, ainsi que d’autres services sociaux de base. La Commission européenne (CE) est un des...
Los gobiernos de los países en desarrollo desesperadamente necesitan una ayuda más previsible y de largo plazo, aportada directamente a sus presupuestos, para financiar la ampliación de la atención a la salud, la educación y demás servicios sociales básicos. La Comisión Europea que es uno de los principales donantes de apoyo...
Environmental degradation caused by urbanisation of the Andean piedmonts and related pre-mountain systems can be observed along both Chilean and Argentinean slopes, with a consequent decrease in vegetation productivity, biomass and soil moisture, and generation of heat islands. This leads to degradation of Andean environmental services such as water infiltration and flood control....
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) Programme on Protected Areas is the focal point within the IUCN Secretariat for Protected Areas and serves as the Secretariat for the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). WCPA is the world’s leading global network of protected area specialists. It has designated Task Forces to deal with particular themes. The following is an extract from the...
The International Year of Mountains (IYM) 2002 drew attention to mountain regions and their fragile ecosystems. The present article makes a comparative analysis of mountain case studies from developing countries (DCs) and industrialised countries (ICs) using sustainability variables in the framework of a Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response Model (DPSIR Model). Response variables, ie...
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