COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
<p>Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP
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Linking climate change policies to human development analysis and advocacy
This guidance note has been prepared in response to the growing demand for guidelines to support the work of human development report teams and partners in integrating human development analysis and advocacy into more equitable, sustainable and climateresilient development planning and policy debates.
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Non-coastal districts more vulnerable to floods
If you think coastal districts have high relative vulnerability to flood, then you might be wrong. For, tribal dominated non-coastal districts like Gajapati, Kalahandi, Boudh, Koraput, Kandhamal, Jharsuguda, Nabarangpur and Sundargarh are with higher risk index because of the low exposure to the population.
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Government to empanel firms for R&R policy
BHUBANESWAR: The Government today decided to have an empaneled list of firms having expertise in the preparation of socio-economic feasibility report for resettlement and rehabilitation project affected people (PAP). THE Revenue Department will invite letter of consent from firms having experience of resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced families of at least two projects.
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Lost in comparison (editorial)
The Human Development Report (HDR) for 2009 (with data till 2007) has been published. Too often, there is fixation with India
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India 134th out of 182 countries
Vidya Subrahmaniam New Delhi: India ranks 134th out of 182 countries, the same as in 2006, in the 2009 Human Development Report released on Monday. China registers the largest gain in rank, moving up seven places to finish at 92. The United States dropped one place to end at 13.
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India 134 In Human Development Index
LIFE IN INDIA SUCKS, FINDS UN REPORT INDIA
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30 civic schools wiped off edu slate in 5 years
MUMBAI: In five years between 2002 and 2007, 30 BMC schools vanished from the city, stated a recently released United Nations Development Programme report on Mumbai.
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China's 'Cancer Villages' Bear Witness To Economic Boom
One needs to look no further then the river that runs through Shangba to understand the extent of the heavy metals pollution that experts say has turned the hamlets in this region of southern China into cancer villages.
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UNDPs bio-diversity boon
The launch of the UNDP project in Ranchi on Tuesday. Ranchi, Sept. 15: To conserve and record the state
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Face of urban poverty
Inclusive development is a much heard slogan today. But how can development be inclusive if the decision-makers in Chennai do not even know whom and what to include, wonders M G Devasahayam