The mandate of the SCN is to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation. It will do this by refining the direction, increasing the scale and strengthening the coherence and impact of actions against malnutrition world wide, and raise awareness of nutrition problems and mobilize commitment to solve them at global, regional and national levels.
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A report by UN-Habitat reviewed by Tann vom Hove, City Mayors. 27 November 2008: The word transition perhaps best describes China: the world’s most populous country is transitioning from a predominantly rural society to an urban one. China’s urbanization process in the last two decades has been extraordinary: the urbanization level in the country has nearly doubled from 25 per cent in 1987 to roughly 42 per cent in 2007; it is estimated that by 2030, 60 per cent of the country’s population more...
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"Human development index (HDI) is extensively used to measure the standard of living of a country. India made a study progress in the HDI value. Extreme poverty is concentrated in rural areas of northern States while income growth has been dynamic in southern States and urban areas. This study was undertaken to assess the trends in HDI, human poverty index (HPI) and incidence of poverty among Indian states, the socio-economic, health, and diet and nutritional indicators which determine the HDI, more...
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CDIA was established to help Asian cities meet the challenge of development. While urban planning has improved in many Asian cities, there is often a “gap” between the strategic development plans that many cities have formulated (typically presenting a wish list of projects) and the requirement of potential financiers for considering only well-formulated infrastructure projects in order to consider funding the needed investments. The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), was establi more...
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'Urban Poverty in India takes stock of the present poverty scenario in India. It is divided in sections headlined issues and policies, women as marginalised subset among the urban poor, access to basic services, shelter for the urban poor, eradication and spatial distribution of urban poverty & urban poverty and Dalits. It attempts to identify workable practical measures to tackle urban poverty effectively. The problems requiring attention of urban planners, policy makers, technocrats, administr more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Pablo Gutman. Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and the environment that are at the core of the agenda of the social and cons more...
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AUTHOR: Duncan Green. PUBLISHER: Oxfam International. The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse – as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. From Poverty to Power argues that it requires a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets to break the cycle of poverty and inequality and to give poor people power over their own destinies The forces driving more...
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