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2025, Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente

O trabalho apresenta uma proposta de indicador para análise do alinhamento empresarial aos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS). O referencial teórico está fundamentado na expressão da atual crise social e ambiental como contexto tanto do surgimento de agendas globais de desenvolvimento sustentável quanto do questionamento do papel das empresas nesse processo. A pesquisa, de caráter exploratório e descritivo, empregou como métodos a revisão bibliográfica e a pesquisa documental. A ferramenta SDG Compass foi a principal referência técnica para a construção do indicador de avaliação de alinhamento aos ODS, que foi aplicado em uma amostra de empresas do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Foram pesquisados os relatórios de sustentabilidade e outras fontes publicadas oficialmente por 97 empresas do estado e os resultados revelaram um quadro de baixo alinhamento do setor privado com os ODS, além de um padrão de atuação mais concentrada na declaração de compromissos e nos relatos em forma...

2025

The goal of sustainable development has become a global priority, especially in light of rising urbanization and environmental degradation. In Nigeria, where cities face expanding challenges such as housing shortages, infrastructure de ciencies, informal settlement development, and climatic vulnerability, architecture and urban planning are increasingly acknowledged as important solutions for resolving these concerns. This study explores how these disciplines might be harnessed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular emphasis on SDG 11: Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Through a critical literature review and contextual analysis, the article identi es gaps, challenges, and opportunities for aligning Nigeria's built environment practices with sustainability imperatives. Key issues noted include obsolete planning instruments, poor institutional coordination, inadequate technical capacity, and the exclusion of informal communities from urban development processes. Despite these systemic di culties, the study identi es emerging innovations, such as climate-responsive architecture, digital planning tools, and community-driven urban design, as viable paths to revolutionary change. The study argues for a paradigm shift in Nigeria's architectural and planning methods, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, policy reform, participatory governance, and investment in resilient infrastructure. It concludes that by incorporating sustainability principles into planning policies, professional education, and built environment regulations, Nigeria can signi cantly advance its progress toward the SDGs while creating more equitable and livable urban spaces.

2025, Development Policy Review

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2025, IJARIIE

The role of industry in utilisation of natural resources and transforming backward regions into industrial areas is well accepted. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises or MSMEs are extremely significant as drivers of industrial growth as they require minimum capital investment but provide great opportunity for entrepreneurial development. MSMEs offer countless benefits such as entrepreneurial development, employment generation, development of backward regions, balanced regional development, export promotion, etc. The region of North Bengal, the northern part of the State of West Bengal is strategically important but industrially backward. This has resulted in myriad problems in the region such as poverty, migration, human trafficking, separatist movements, etc. The present paper discusses the prospects and challenges for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the industrial development of North Bengal. The paper concludes that the challenges relating to sustainable development of MSMEs in the region needs to be addressed for strengthening industrial development in the region.

2025, AN EVALUATION OF NIGERIA'S PERFORMANCE IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

The objective of this study is to evaluate how Nigeria performed in the international development objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) using microeconomic indicators of health and education. Specifically, this study measures how effective was the Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS) on these indicators. Adopting an ex post facto research design and using Nonparametric test (Wilcoxon Signed-Ranked); the study indicates that investments channelled via CGS caused significant and positive changes in maternal and child mortality rates as well as primary school enrolment rates, which invariably affected Nigeria's performance in achieving the international development objective of the MDGs. The study concludes by recommending that in spite of implementation challenges, CGS experiences should not be discarded as her lessons affect the operationalization and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before the 2030 target date. Furthermore, such expansion should include investments in 'soft social infrastructure' alongside the existing hard infrastructure.

2025, AN EVALUATION OF NIGERIA'S PERFORMANCE IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

2025

A preliminary study was conducted to document spider diversity in Goalpara District, Assam state in India. The study was conducted from January to May 2018. A total of 37 species of spiders belonging to 12 families were identified from the study area. The species were identified using keys for Indian spiders from Tikader 1987; Platnick 2011. The spiders impose natural check on insect pest populations. Methodology included active searching at all layers from ground level to tree canopy layer accessible easily for hand collecting and visual surveys. Randomly selected study sites and have taken 10 political areas and in each area's 3 plots were selected. Amongst the families, the Araneidae was the most abundant (14 species) with orb weavers being the dominant guild type. A guild structure analysis of the spiders revealed eight feeding guilds such as Orb weavers, Ground hunters, Ambusheus, Ground runners, Stalkers, Space web builders, Branch dwellers, Foliage hunters.

2025, Communications Biology

High throughput CRISPR screens are revolutionizing the way scientists unravel the genetic underpinnings of engineered and evolved phenotypes. One of the critical challenges in accurately assessing screening outcomes is accounting for the variability in sgRNA cutting efficiency. Poorly active guides targeting genes essential to screening conditions obscure the growth defects that are expected from disrupting them. Here, we develop acCRISPR, an endto-end pipeline that identifies essential genes in pooled CRISPR screens using sgRNA read counts obtained from next-generation sequencing. acCRISPR uses experimentally determined cutting efficiencies for each guide in the library to provide an activity correction to the screening outcomes via calculation of an optimization metric, thus determining the fitness effect of disrupted genes. CRISPR-Cas9 and-Cas12a screens were carried out in the nonconventional oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica and acCRISPR was used to determine a highconfidence set of essential genes for growth under glucose, a common carbon source used for the industrial production of oleochemicals. acCRISPR was also used in screens quantifying relative cellular fitness under high salt conditions to identify genes that were related to salt tolerance. Collectively, this work presents an experimental-computational framework for CRISPR-based functional genomics studies that may be expanded to other non-conventional organisms of interest.

2025, Essay Kewarganegaraan – Telkom University

Perempuan berperan penting dalam pembangunan ekonomi Indonesia, terutama melalui partisipasi dalam tenaga kerja dan UMKM. Namun, mereka masih menghadapi hambatan seperti diskriminasi gender, ketimpangan upah, dan akses terbatas terhadap pendidikan. Data BPS (2024) menunjukkan bahwa Tingkat Partisipasi Angkatan Kerja (TPAK) perempuan hanya 55,41%, jauh lebih rendah dari laki-laki. Untuk meningkatkan kontribusi perempuan, diperlukan kebijakan yang mendukung kesetaraan gender, akses pendidikan, serta dukungan bagi UMKM. Dengan sinergi pemerintah, masyarakat, dan sektor swasta, perempuan dapat lebih berdaya dalam mendorong ekonomi yang inklusif dan berkelanjutan.

2025, JURNAL PARADIGMA (PEMBERDAYAAN & PENGABDIAN KEPADA MASYARAKAT)

Truck/angkot drivers, port workers and nightlife lovers are groups that are very vulnerable to contracting HIV/ADS. This is because this group is the closest and often interacts with prostitution sites that may have been infected. HIV/AIDS is a disease for which there is no cure and there is no vaccine that can prevent the attack of the HIV virus, so this disease is a disease that is very dangerous for human life both now and in the future. The method used in this community service activity is in the form of training and counseling to the community about preventing the transmission and consequences of HIV/AIDS and a participatory approach, meaning that participants are required to be active in participating in the activity. The competencies that will be formed are marked by indicators of increasing participants' knowledge about the prevention of transmission and consequences of HIV/AIDS. The objective of the Halu Oleo University internal partnership program is to increase knowledge on the prevention of transmission and consequences of HIV/AIDS. Locations of training and counseling activities will be held at night entertainment centers, Kendari and Kemaraya ports, where truck drivers from outside the area gather. Supporting facilities and infrastructure that will be prepared for meeting rooms, audio visuals, and human resources from the Kendari City Service and Kendari Class II Port Health Office, as well as community service lecturers from Halu Oleo University. before training and counseling, the dominant knowledge of participants was in the poor category as many as 23 people (76.7%), while after training and counseling the participants' knowledge increased to the dominant category of good as many as 28 people (93.3%). A comprehensive HIV prevention program should not only focus on prevention of HIV transmission but also on the maintenance of physical and mental health of individuals with HIV which is closely related to the stigma that exists in society

2025, Bolletí de la Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana: revista d'estudis històrics

2025, Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights

This chapter traces the historical evolution of development frameworks, highlighting the MDGs' role in redefining international cooperation and mobilizing resources for sustainable human development. Despite notable achievements, the MDGs also faced criticisms related to their donor-driven approach, lack of legal enforcement mechanisms, and uneven success across regions. The chapter further explores the MDGs’ impact on human rights, their integration into international legal and political frameworks, and the transition to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Through an analysis of successes and limitations, this chapter offers a comprehensive understanding of how the MDGs shaped global development efforts and set the foundation for contemporary sustainable development policies.

2025, Corporate Law: Law & Finance eJournal

English Abstract: This article analyses the relationship between law, gender, and finance, with a particular focus on gender inequalities in the financial literacy measure which was constructed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It seeks to trouble predominant claims about financial literacy as an effective, ‘edu-regulatory’ policy to address gender inequalities in the financial services market. The article suggests that instead of acting as a neutral assessment of people’s financial literacy, the measure, in fact, embodies gendered assumptions about finance and financial practices. The measure presents a financial world in abstract terms and fails to account for different contexts within which financial decisions are made. The article exposes the measure’s problematic deployment of the literacy/illiteracy binary in thinking about financial gender inequalities. Rather than being attentive to the ways in which gender inequalities are produced in fina...

2025, Biilingual/Bi-annual Pakistan Studies English / Urdu Research Journal

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons of out of school children currently enrolled at Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) centers, in district Quetta. The accelerated learning program centers are providing education to those children who lost their first chance of education, the children who never been to school or dropped out at any primary stage, and reducing OoSC ratio. The District and provincial Department of Education should study other ALP programs designed for OoSC, dropped outs and at risks designs as identified and discussed in the literature and revise the design of UNICEF accelerated learning program setup to meet the needs of young people appropriately and sufficiently. The participants of this study were ALP students and their parents. 194 ALP students and 46 parents were interviewed through a structured questionnaire. The findings imply that ALP contributes the retention rate of dropouts and OoSC in the areas of the district where ALP set up exists. The major reasons for OoSC are socio-economic, far and long areas, overcrowded schools, and marginalized community

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2025, The Sindh University Journal of Education

This study aims at analyzing empirically the provisions of access and quality education to out of school children (OoSC) currently enrolled at Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) centers in district Quetta. The ALP centers are providing education to out of school children (OoSC) facing to miss enrollment in school going age, the children who never been to school or dropped out at any primary stage. ALP education provisions are aimed at reducing OoSC ratio. The study provides novel primary data from a number of 14 ALP centers located in district Quetta. The data is collected via full-pledge questionnaire designed for this study. The findings show that ALP centers are providing access to education to OoSC in Quetta. The findings also show that quality education via ALP centers are provided to the OoSC in study area. The results imply that ALP centers contribute to the retention rate of dropouts and OoSC in the areas of the district where ALP set up exists. ALP environment is safe and providing primary education to OoSC and fulfills the needs of OoSC.

2025, iipt.org

Tourism and leisure industries can compliment efforts in trying to achieve the MDGs as set by the UN. The MDGs were set in response to the world's main development challenges especially in developing countries. The MDGs were set to promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, and other diseases in such societies. Recognizing the central point that tourism has become in major economic policies, it has been placed in major development strategies with projects being funded by host countries and numerous international donors. To this end, this paper will review tourism policies in Africa, identify direct and indirect links with MDGs and analyze how success can be achieved by using the right strategies. Examples from Asia and elsewhere will be highlighted to see how this can be replicated in Africa.

2025, International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) is a significant stage to develop responsible generations. Holistic child development may be possible through a plan of early childhood education (ECE) and early learning. This study is planned to explore the role of school leadership in promoting ECCE in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan. This research study may play a significant role in sensitizing the educationist, practitioners, pedagogical leadership in early learning centers, and political leadership. The study was quantitative in nature. In the first step, a stratified sampling technique was used to select the districts among the three divisions of AJK. In the second step, a simple random sampling technique was used. Self-developed a five-point Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect the data. The study concluded that leadership plays a significant role in promoting ECCE. It is encouraging that educational leadership involves parents in the process of teaching-learning. Learners are happy in the school activities, and academic leadership is planning to minimize the workload of kids. It is recommended that children may be facilitated with better infrastructure.

2025

One year after adopting the SDGs, in an addendum to its Open Government National Action Plan, the U.S. Government committed to develop an SDG Data Revolution Roadmap that "charts the future course of efforts to fill data gaps and build capacity to use data for decision-making and innovation to advance sustainable development." The U.S. Government's SDG Data Revolution Roadmap will outline the government's commitments-to-action from 2017-2018. With a deadline of June 2017, it will be developed by the U.S. Government "through an open and inclusive process that engages the full range of citizen, non-governmental, and private sector stakeholders."This report represents the beginning of that engagement process. On December 14, 2016, the Center for Open Data Enterprise and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data convened a Roundtable to develop recommended priorities for the U.S. Government's SDG Data Revolution Roadmap The Roundtable brough...

2025, OULLIM – VISION FOR THE FUTURE

It is ascertained that life has existed on this planet for about 4 billion years. The last millennium has seen great progress in scientific and technological development, economies and societies have advanced and developed around the world. Yet in this short period, in the name of development and progress, human activities have damaged and depleted the natural beauty and resources that took millions of years to develop - thanks to science and technology. A world of consumption has scarred the land and strained the seas, eating away at the foundations of nature and threatening to destroy humanity's only means of survival.

2025

After one year of a full monitoring cycle in 2016, Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN) with its members, including TUSEV, published the regional report in partnership with European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL). The report summarizes the key findings from country reports including Turkey 2016 Report prepared by using the Monitoring Matrix methodology. The report identifies common issues across the Western Balkan countries and Turkey and brings key recommendations directed towards national governments and relevant European Union institutions to highlight the priorities for intervention in the creation of a more enabling environment for civil society.

2025

This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The fi ndings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily refl ect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifi cally reserved. Rights and Permissions

2025, Student Concept

ODF campaign is essential and inevitable as of the two points of (1. Proportion of Population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural. 2. Proportion of Urban Population with access to improved Sanitation) of 7C target (Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation) of 7th goal (Ensuring Environmental Sustainability) of MDG (Millennium Development Goals) has directly been addressing global Water, Sanitation and hygiene issues. As a result of the campaigns operated by Global Government and other INGOs and donor agencies, from 1990 up to the year 2012, the open defecation decreased from 24% to 14.3 % globally. And, nationally from 1990 up to 2015, the open defection practice decreased from 94 % to 18.05% as per status of national sanitation (Toilet) coverage.

2025, KOLOKIUM Jurnal Pendidikan Luar Sekolah

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2024, Revista de la CEPAL

socioeconómicos sobre la base de circunstancias exógenas. Se aprecia que de 1990 a 2006 disminuyó la desigualdad de oportunidades. Las ganancias obtenidas son: primero, la cobertura de los servicios sociales aumentó considerablemente, con una mejora general en términos de oportunidades; segundo, las brechas en las probabilidades de acceso entre los subgrupos poblacionales han mermado, proporcionando condiciones más equilibradas. Estos resultados deberían interpretarse como evidencia parcial de la evolución de las oportunidades. Asimismo, se constata una brecha ostensible en el índice de oportunidades en todo el país, lo que refleja diferencias en las tasas de cobertura y la distribución de oportunidades en las regiones. La reducción de la desigualdad es un hecho positivo, pero Chile todavía está lejos de alcanzar una distribución equitativa del bienestar.

2024, Space and Culture, India

The objective of this paper is to examine the achievements of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India Vision 2020 in the context of the slums of Varanasi city. India has been facing the problem of growing urban poverty due to rapid urbanisation. According to the Census of India 2011, about 65 million people live in urban slums, which are overcrowded, polluted, unhygienic, and deprived of basic services. This paper compares the goals and targets of UN MDGs and India Vision 2020 with the status of the slum dwellers of Varanasi city. The study is based on primary data, which includes survey of 150 households of five different slums of Varanasi city. The study reveals that more than 70% people are illiterate, less than 35% of population access government health facilities, only 36% household use tap water, etc. This comparison portrays a pathetic picture of slums and the inabilities to achieve both MDGs and national goals.Key words:MDGs, India Vision 2020, Slums, Poverty, Quality ...

2024

The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in particular. In addition, the dominant view identifies economic growth as the principal means to this end. But the policy objective of aid can be defined in many ways, and has in fact varied over time with shifting priorities within the international community about the ultimate ends of development and the means for advancing those ends. This paper argues that more attention should be given to conflict prevention as a policy objective of development aid and explores the implications of doing so for aid programme priorities and the international aid architecture in general. The paper shows that violent conflict is a major obstacle to achieving the MDGs; it identifies 64 worst performing countries and finds that the majority have experienced violent internal conflict, and/or are vulnerable because of the socioeconomic correlates of internal war. The paper then argues that development policy priorities and their support with aid can be deployed to reduce these risks. Conflict prevention is thus an important policy objective as a means to achieving MDGs as well as an end itself since security from violence is an essential aspect of human wellbeing and human security. Integrating this policy objective would imply adjustments that would need to be made in aid architecture.

2024, Sustainable Futures

Human Development and its regional disparity is an area of topical interest. In this paper, we consider space as an instrumental variable in understanding this disparity and explore spatial interdependence in human development across districts of West Bengal using alternate indicators of human development. This study uses both the standard United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) technique and an alternative methodology to construct a sub-national human development index. Spatial interdependence is measured using Moran's I coefficient and Local Indicators of Spatial Autocorrelation (LISA) cluster maps. Spatial regression is used to evaluate the spatial association between the Human Development Index as the dependent variable and a few independent variables. A high degree of clustering in all three dimensions of human development is observed among the southern districts of West Bengal. The pattern of cluster maps indicates the presence of both the growth pole process and the metropole-periphery process in the state. Spatial regression results indicate that the share of socially backward class population and urbanization rate are important variables affecting regional human development patterns. The findings of this study suggest policies targeted to promote social inclusion and urbanization linked with better access to economic opportunities in the lagging areas can help reduce regional imbalances.

2024, In Quest of Humane Development

Born in 1990, the Human Development Index (HDI) has gained immense acceptance across the globe and spawned more than 1000 global, regional, national, and subnational Human Development Reports (HDR) in its young life of 30 years. The idea is rooted in a long chain of discussion centred around what comprises development of the human society and how to measure it. The index, once formulated and regularly recorded and published by UNDP, has undergone transformations as well as horizontal branching out into related dimensions of gender development, gender parity, multidimensional poverty, inequality adjusted HDI, and the likes. However, its global usage and acceptance has also been its Achilles' heel in a sense that it relies on a uniform template-applied to all countries (or regions/sub-regions) without contextualising their geography or social history. Also, large and heterogeneous countries like India have sub-national regions that are at diverse stages of progress and so examining and comparing human development levels of these smaller administrative regions also becomes crucial. This is of utmost importance for two reasons. First, many of the Indian sub-regions are large enough to be countries by themselves. 1 Second, given the federal structural of Indian polity and the plurality of society, it

2024

An analogy between the model of an atom and poverty of an individual in a poverty field is presented to construe that poverty levels are quantized in similar notions as in the models of an atom. This analogy provides a rational explanation of the observed phenomena in society in part as well as it can be used to predict future observations. Concepts proposed in this paper may lead to a framework to quantify poverty, absolute or relative, and suggest enhanced collaboration between moral science and natural science to study poverty dynamics.

2024, Development Policy Review

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2024

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the hot spots for vulnerability to climate change with slow progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-4 on education. The region is also facing a sharp drop in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), putting previous progress made in education at risk. On the other hand, climate financing has been growing steadily but very little has been channeled to the education sector. Climate financing with sustained ODA is needed to progress on SDG-4 and create resilient education systems that can recover from climate events. Failing that could exacerbate the region's vulnerability and reverse the gains made in SSA.

2024, Development Policy Review

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2024, Social Science Research Network

2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

2024

Troell, and material developed by e.g. the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Amy Fraenkel, Shizuka Onishi and their colleagues), UNDP (Jamison Ervin and her colleagues), Sida, and many others not mentioned here,... more

2024, Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

This chapter considers key factors shaping the pursuit of gender equality and women's empowerment under the SDGs. In so doing, it examines some of the most significant concerns that may militate against the goals achieving these ends. These include, the legacy of the MDGs regime and in particular the limitations that have become apparent during its operation in progressing societal change through the goals, targets, and indicators, oriented approach pioneered therein and pursued in the successor SDG regime. The chapter also discusses the tensions inherent in the adoption of a discrete gender goal on the one hand and integration of gender under other goals on the other. The principal advantage of a discrete gender goal lies in according 'headline' status to the issue; integration in other goals however offers the potential to 'mainstream' gender coverage key substantive areas. The concomitant disadvantages of these approaches are potentially 'siloing' gender issues and dilution of focus respectively. The use of indicators and their limitations, particularly in light of current levels of information and communications technology and data challenges are interrogated. The chapter concludes by examining the implications of the international community's broader evasion of the interface between goals regimes and the global human rights agenda for gender issues. Discussion centres around the fact that, as gender concerns now enjoy strong coverage in human rights law along with the legal status that this invokes, divorcing the SDGs regime from such protection stands to act to the particular disadvantage of women, negating a key route to securing accountability for the impacts of state action/inaction on the ground.

2024

Using secondary data of Government Schools and literacy department for 10 years that is 2000-2010, this paper assesses the progress on the issue of gender equality within the framework of education related Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in district Quetta. The assessment is based on the selected indicators of goals by applying descriptive statistical tools such as ratio, mean and fixed chain methods. The major findings include; (a) the overall trend reveals positive change; (b) the pace of adult education is more biased against women; (c) the targets of literacy rate of children with 10+ years will hopefully be achieved; (d) the indicator to remove gender disparity related to net primary enrolment ratio will hopefully, be achieved; (e) the target of NER (Net enrollment ratio) will, perhaps not be achieved due to high drop out; (f) empowerment of woman through employment show bleak picture. The implications of findings for plan of action include: shifting more resources to primar...

2024, International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

This study explores the food security status of beedi workers in two villages in the Suti-II block of the Murshidabad district, West Bengal. The beedi industry is a significant source of employment, particularly for women, in the unorganized sector, and this research focuses on assessing food insecurity among these workers. A sample of 50 households was randomly selected for analysis using the Core Food Security Model (CFSM), which evaluates household experiences related to food access. The findings indicate that while most of the households are food secure, a small percentage, particularly those with children, experience food insecurity without hunger. Income levels are slightly higher in Village II (Mahesail) than Village I (Khidirpur), with households with children earning more in both villages. These results suggest that while food security is generally adequate, targeted interventions are needed to address the food insecurity experienced by some households. The study highlights the economic and social vulnerabilities of beedi workers, emphasizing the need for policy attention to improve their living conditions.

2024

Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous research institute within the UN system that undertakes interdisciplinary research and policy analysis on the social dimensions of contemporary development issues. Through our work we aim to ensure... more

2024

The share of manufacturing production to GDP is a strong indicator of the industrialization of the economy and a measure of value addition in the production system. It is an indication of the creativity and innovation in the economy because usually 80 % of R&D and innovation happens in the industrial sector. The data shows a worrisome trend. LLDCS have indeed experienced a process of deindustrialization. This is a serious impediment to their medium and long term growth and capacity to innovate.

2024

It also draws on discussions and presentations at a workshop in Cape Town, in February 2004, to which many Ford Foundation staff members and invited guests contributed, including participants from organizations that receive support from the Ford Foundation, staff from the Sustainability Institute (which hosted the workshop), leaders from the South African Homeless People's Federation and staff from the Community Organizations Resource Centre in Cape Town. Special thanks are due to Carl Anthony and his colleagues at the Ford Foundation for their support and their contributions to this report and to Joel Bolnick and his colleagues at the Community Organizations Resource Centre who not only contributed to this report but also organized the workshop. Special thanks too to Nina Behrman who copy-edited the text. The background papers can be obtained by e-mailing David Satterthwaite

2024, Journal Review

This publication assesses the government's attempts to lower maternal mortality through various health programs and examines the impact of socioeconomic factors on Brebes Regency's maternal mortality statistics. This research used a mixed methodology, utilizing multiple linear regression analysis as a quantitative way to evaluate the impact of family income, age, education level, and residence type on maternal mortality. Furthermore, this research employed qualitative analysis to assess how well government initiatives are being implemented to lower the rate of maternal death.