In a landmark policy development, Odisha’s Ganjam District administration has promised to set up Women Support Centres (WSC) in each of the 22 Tahasils in the district, to help single women and women headed households to access allotment of land. The WSC will also work as a platform where such households can access other social security programmes of the government.
Ahmee participated in one of the project’s briquette production training sessions on 5th March 2012. After the training at the briquette factory, which is located in Baan Pang-Sa, she...
Worried at the growing adverse impacts of climate change on Bangladesh, youths on Saturday called upon the government to engage them in the development process to build a climate resilient country livable for women, girls and youth-the worst vulnerable classes.
Over 500 students from the country’s public and private universities gathered at Dhaka University to discuss the issue of Disaster readiness towards building a sustainable Dhaka city at a two-day Youth Conference, titled “Model UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Dhaka+20)” at the Senate Auditorium on May 11-12.
Chamoli district, in the upper reaches of the Himalayas, is endowed with natural beauty and abundant natural resources. Despite this, it remains backward.
In India, ActionAid work in 23 States and 1 Union Territory and supports over 90 long term projects and over 200 short term projects in partnership with more than 230 NGOs and community based organizations. Here, we provide a sneak peak into some of our ongoing projects
"Bio fuel is this marvellous idea that we should make food not in order to eat it but to burn it" - Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved* *****“We don’t drive cars or tractors. Then why...
