A recent OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) report found that Mexicans work an average of 10 hours a day, longer than people in any of other OECD member country. (The average for all OECD members is 8 hours a day.) These figure include both paid and unpaid work...
Beyond the access vector, RES has also become the linchpin for anti-poverty and developmental interventions hoping to promote economic empowerment in rural communities. The relationship between RES and economic empowerment has long been a source of interest in the energy-development and energy-...
This expectation created by gender roles negatively affects women’s career development opportunities and decisions on promoting women. As described, women’s roles, characterized by communal qualities, fail to meet the expectations of male-related qualities favored in managers. In contrast, when women...
The process allows for the development of recommendations on creating a more gender-aware policy. A gender audit is not a financial audit. The International Labour Office (ILO3), which uses gender audits as part of its monitoring and evaluation of its gender mainstreaming approaches, considers an...
The Determinants of Decent Work in Moroccan Cooperatives and Implications for Public Action: Toward Public Action through Determinants In a context marked by growing inequalities and sustainable development challenges, Moroccan cooperatives represent an opportunity to reconcile economic ob... BE Azhari,M ...
World Health Organization Regional Office for SouthEast Asia, New Delhi, India Anjana Bhushan BRAC University, Brac James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Sabina Faiz Rashid Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Pakistan ...
As mentioned above, the territory of Gipuzkoa is located in the Basque Country,Footnote5a region in which the industrial sector has been fundamental for the development of its economy and its companies. Therefore, we think that the application of the recommendations of the Code could fit well wit...
Kathmandu, Nepal: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Google Scholar Leduc, B., Shrestha, A., & Bhattarai, B. (2008). Gender and climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas of Nepal. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) for WEDO, 8. ...
development actors need to consider questions such as which kinds of capacities are important for building resilience in a particular context for specific groups of people, and how best to support people in developing these capac- ities and responding to shocks and stressors in a way that protect...