Full Coverage: Poverty

30.12.2005 RUAF is a global resource centre initiated by the international
Support Group on Urban Agriculture and is funded by: DGIS (The
Netherlands) and IDRC (Canada).

30.12.2005 As bulks of rural development outlays are employment-related, there is considerable scope for the various schemes to be streamlined and re-fashioned as an employment guarantee scheme.

29.12.2005 The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa in Collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development are organising the Second IDLELO Conference on Free and Open Source Software to be held at the Nairobi Safari Park Hotel in Kenya from the 23rd to 25th February 2006. IDLELO is a Zulu word for a common grazing ground.

29.12.2005 In Dorli village in Wardha, farmers simply put up signs announcing their whole village was for sale. It worked, with the local MP giving them Rs.10 lakh. Eslewhere, despair only deepens. Farm suicides have begun in rich Western Maharashtra, too.

28.12.2005 The phenomenal growth of mobile phones in Kenya and many other developing countries thought to be too poor to afford the technology is a proof that people believe it is crucial to their well being.

28.12.2005 The scheme, in vogue in Anantapur district, should be implemented in Kadapa district too, the Collector said while addressing (district Rural Development Agency) DRDA district samakhya meeting here. Loans of Rs. 70 crores would be disbursed among self-help groups in the next quarter, he said.

28.12.2005 In the controversial adoption of the 500 orphans of the quake-hit Uri and Tangdhar case, the J-K High Court (HC) today directed the state government to verify credentials of the Pune based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has adopted them.

28.12.2005 Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Bashir Ahmed Khan has said that 20,000 quake-related cases settled by the Lok Adalats in 34 days would have taken 22 years normally.

27.12.2005 National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) appeared to be keen to re-open sick dairies in Gujarat and as part of this process, inaugurated the Junagadh Dairy here on December 24.

27.12.2005 Globally, relevant information has become an indispensable resource in the interaction among civil society, individuals, governments and businesses. It holds the key to growth, development and competitiveness, and to uplifting standards of living. Information can be used in a significant way to improve the quality of life in poor local communities, and in so doing narrow the glaring gap between the “two worlds” in Southern Africa.

27.12.2005 Managing director of Parwaz Microfinance Institute Katrin Fakiri said that institutions of microfinance would greatly affect business of the usurers and would also help in protecting women from forced marriages.

27.12.2005 Widespread poverty and ignorance are forcing more than half the number of children of Danuwar community at Bhimtar village in Sindhupalchok out of schools. They can instead be found wasting their time fishing.

27.12.2005 It may require something close to divine intervention to tide over the post-tsunami habitat problems. Of the 100,000-odd families displaced by the tsunami in south India, over 92% still live in temporary shelters, makeshift tents and public buildings, in rented houses or with relatives. The recent rains have worsened the situation, virtually turning hundreds of tsunami-affected families into a floating population.

27.12.2005 Coastal communities across the Indian Ocean yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami that left 230,000 people dead, with ceremonies of tearful remembrance and hopeful thanksgiving.

27.12.2005 Loss of livelihood is typically the key shock factor that then generates a process that culminates in greater hunger and malnourishment.

26.12.2005 In this paper, the author shows social, cultural, political and economic diversity of rural India and the need for appropriating the ICT interventions according to such diversifications.

26.12.2005 Swaabhimaan 2062, an alliance formed with the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership of government, civil society organizations, public and private agencies seeks to harness the potential of ICTs for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The current Five Year Plan of Nepal also envisions that Nepal will have rural tele-centers in 1,500 VDCs to bring about development.

26.12.2005 War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. It campaigns for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice. Read the WTOlog by War on Want's Media Officer John Coventry.

23.12.2005 How has the country managed to deal with the food crisis, which at its height threatened five million people?

23.12.2005 The latest research of the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA, issued few days ago under the title “Child Abuse in the Albanian Family” has been now made available on line. All the interested parties should visit www.crca.org.al.