Self-employment promoted through women’s
groups has often been cited as a promising intervention to
transition more women back to the labor force, especially in
South...
Type: ReportReport#: 148847Date: April 15, 2020Author:
Kakkar,Deepti
The main priority for the Democratic
Republic of Congo’s power sector is to increase access to
electricity. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a large
country with...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 147601Date: April 13, 2020
80 percent of Niger’s labor force is
engaged in agriculture and livestock, accounting for 40
percent of the GDP. However, productivity and yields are low
due to limited...
Roughly two billion people live in areas
that regularly suffer from conflict, violence, and
instability. Infrastructure development in those areas is
very difficult...
National Rural Livelihoods Mission,
supported by the World Bank, has been implemented in
Jharkhandover the past several years, and has built a robust
platform of community...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 151598Date: March 1, 2020
The Government of India (GoI) approved
the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) in June 2011
to implement a renewed demand-driven strategy of rural
poverty alleviation...
Type: ReportReport#: 148848Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
Layer farming is an income-generating
livelihood activity wherein egg-laying poultry birds are
raised by a household for the purpose of egg production on a
commercial...
Type: BriefReport#: 149101Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Newton-Lewis, Tom ;
Jha, Avadesh ;
Singh,Pratyush Ranjan ;
Nagpal, Phalasha ;
Bihari, Bipin
The main design principle behind self
help groups (SHGs) organizations of rural poor women at the
village level was to empower women by mobilizing them into
small groups,...
Small and marginal farmers in India
struggle for access to good quality inputs in farming of
crops (seeds, fertilizers, crop protection) and livestock
(stock species,...
JOHAR is a pioneer in enabling tribal
communities to be an integral stakeholder in development by
ensuring availability, accessibility and utilization of
water resources...
The  Integrated Economic Development of
Small Towns Project for China aims to improve public
infrastructure and services to contribute to the sound
development of...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 146560Date: March 1, 2020
The Second Public Employment for
Sustainable Agriculture and Water Resources Management
Project for Tajikistan aims to improve food availability and
food access for...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 146568Date: March 1, 2020
Access to adequate and timely credit at
affordable rates is critical for the rural poor to alleviate
high cost debt and invest in livelihood opportunities.
Despite the...
Type: ReportReport#: 148859Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The JOHAR project was initiated in 2017
to aid targeted rural producer households to diversify and
enhance their household income, and achieve a significant
increase...
Type: BriefReport#: 149095Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Bihari, Bipin ;
Khanuja, Jasmeet ;
Kothari,Anand Kumar Yogen ;
Newton-Lewis, Tom
This report aims to provide more
evidence on the linkages between forest uses and poverty in
Armenia with a focus on fuelwood. The report aims to answer
the following...
Type: ReportReport#: 147128Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Perge,Emilie Bernadette ;
Cerbu,Gillian Ann ;
Behal,Raisa Chandrashekhar
Rural India is primarily an agri-based
economy. Over-dependence on agriculture has meant declining
percapita rural income which has gradually initiated a shift
towards...
Type: ReportReport#: 148865Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
Jharkhand's livestock production is
in the hands of marginal and landless farmers with women
accounting for over 70 percent of the production. The JOHAR
project aims...
The launch of NRLM to address rural
poverty marks a paradigm shift in poverty alleviation
because unlike other programs that preceded it, the NRLM
focuses on training...
Type: ReportReport#: 148851Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The agriculture sector is the largest
employer in India, providing direct employment to more than
fifty percent of the nation’s workforce. Small and marginal
farmers...
Type: ReportReport#: 148861Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
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