Resources
White Paper 1 : Management of Essential Ecosystem Areas
Natural resources conservation is often being avoided in the context of development due to the fact that conservation tends to be considered counter productive to development. However, natural resources conservation issues are inseparable elements of sustainable development. Conservation as a concept may not yet be fully understood. Conservation areas are not limited to any administrative […]
USDOL Project EMPOWERs Woman to Read and Write
Alice’s household faces many challenges like any other single woman-headed household in her village. She has been unable to send any of her children to school, so none of them has been educated. She does not own a farm because within her husband’s culture, a woman can only inherit ancestral land from her father, not […]
REAL Course Pilot Takes Off
The United States Department of Labor’s (USDOL) funded project EMPOWER: Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women in Zambia is a four-year initiative aimed at reducing the prevalence of child labor through interventions that support four outcomes: adolescent girls engaged in or at high risk of entering child labor have increased […]
