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This report focuses on the role of key stakeholders (policy makers, waste management practitioners, civil society, informal workers' organizations, and the private sector) in contributing to pollution reduction in South Asia while also enhancing livelihood prospects for informal waste...
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Today, many more girls are going to school and living longer, healthier lives than 30 or even 10 years ago. That was the good news in our flagship 2012 World Development Report on gender. But this has not translated into broader gains. Too many women still lack basic freedoms and opportunities...
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profound effect on employment patterns for women, especially among those who have not attained university education. Family …-confidence and social respectability. Higher female employment is instrumental in building capacity for economic growth and poverty … reduction. Higher levels of female employment allow government investments in education to be used more efficiently as women use …
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This report examines youth in post-conflict Burundi. The research responds to the nascent but growing body of knowledge … on conflict, young men and gender. War and violence have devastated societies and economies throughout Africa with young … at youth and young men in particular in two countries emerging from years of ethnic conflict, with a view to identifying …
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costly for Sub-Saharan Africa. For the case of Sudan, a typical large African country experiencing a long-duration conflict …
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