Linking Sustainability with Demand, Gender and Poverty LINKING SUSTAINABILITY WITH DEMAND, GENDER AND POVERTY

Information and Communications Systems as a Means to Reduce Poverty

Extreme poverty, experienced by approximately 1.2 billion people, is considered by many to be the most significant crises in the world today. To give focus to the task of poverty reduction, in September 2000, the United Nations has established eight Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. The goals cover many areas, including income, education, gender equality, children mortality, ...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran

Factors Influencing Rural Livelihood Diversification Activities among Women in Northern Region of Ghana

Livelihood sustainability remains a major challenge for rural households in Northern Ghana. Although farming has traditionally been the core livelihood strategy for most households, diversifying into non-farm activities remains a common livelihood strategy employed to sustain household basic needs, particularly for women, who because of their gender often face challenges in accessing land for f...

The impact of social cash transfers on household economic decision making and development in Eastern and Southern Africa

Apart from their well-documented impacts on human development and poverty alleviation, recent evidence suggest that social cash transfer programs may foster broader economic development impacts. These impacts come through changes in household behavior and through impacts on the local economy of the communities where the transfers operate. The householdlevel impacts follow three main documented ...

Re-thinking gender and energy: Old and new directions

Women/gender and energy has emerged as one of the critical pathways for linking energy interventions to the Millennium Development goals. Yet, despite many efforts, energy poverty is widespread, and gender inequality exits at every level of the energy sector. At the same time, most poverty assessments and research exclude energy. This paper is addressed primarily to researchers on gender and en...