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ผู้ว่าราชการจังหวัดของประเทศไทยกำหนดจะเข้าร่วมพิธีการลงนามในประกาศเจตนารมณ์เพื่อประเทศไทยที่ยั่งยืน (Statement of Commitment to Sustainable Thailand) ในวันที่ 6 มิถุนายน 2565 ณ ศูนย์ประชุมสหประชาชาติ กรุงเทพมหานคร เพื่อแสดงเจตจำนงที่จะพัฒนาขีดความสามารถและความตระหนักด้านการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืนภายในจังหวัด ผ่านการร่วมมือกับสหประชาชาติและพันธมิตรต่าง ๆ พร้อมสนับสนุนเจตจำนงอันแน่วแน่ของประเทศไทยในการบรรลุเป้าหมายการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน และความมุ่งหมายที่จะก้าวขึ้นเป็นประเทศที่มีรายได้สูง มีการพัฒนาที่ครอบคลุม ยั่งยืน มีภูมิคุ้มกัน และมีความก้าวหน้า ซึ่งสอดคล้องกับยุทธศาสตร์ชาติ 20 ปี และร่างแผนพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจและสังคมแห่งชาติฉบับที่ 13 และโมเดลเศรษฐกิจชีวภาพ-เศรษฐกิจหมุนเวียน-เศรษฐกิจสีเขียว (BCG)
วาระเชิงยุทธศาสตร์ที่สำคัญที่จะสามารถร่วมมือกับสหประชาชาติ ได้แก่ (1) การถ่ายทอดเทคโนโลยีเพื่อลดการปล่อยคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์และการพัฒนาขีดความสามารถ (2) การอนุรักษ์และปกป้องความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพ และส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวเชิงนิเวศที่ยั่งยืน (3) การจัดการของเสียอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพตามโมเดลเศรษฐกิจชีวภาพ-เศรษฐกิจหมุนเวียน-เศรษฐกิจสีเขียว การแก้ปัญหาการเผาชีวมวลด้วยแนวทางที่อิงธรรมชาติ และการลดมลพิษทางอากาศและพลาสติก (4) การสร้างระบบอาหารที่ยั่งยืนและลดการสูญเสียอาหาร การพัฒนาเกษตรกรรมยั่งยืน และการทำฟาร์มอัจฉริยะ และ (5) การเสริมสร้างความยืดหยุ่นให้ชุมชนและระบบนิเวศทางทะเลโดยการปรับตัวและการลดความเสี่ยงจากภัยพิบัติ
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
March 14, 2019. Nairobi Kenya. The 4th United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA 4. © NATALIA MROZ/ UNEP
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Tonga's first wind turbine at Nakolo village.Reports say that this single 11kW turbine can sustain the annual energy needs of 23 homes.It's too early to tell whether or not this is a sustainable project.
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank GRoup President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 101212-AM2012-MinSustainDevlpmnt023F
Deyanira Cordoba belongs to a family of coffee growers of Tablon de Gomez, in the of Nariño region of Colombia. As part of a UN Women project, she has learned about her economic rights, bodily autonomy and more. The future holds many possibilities for this talented artist and coffee grower, but whichever path she chooses, she feels she belongs with her community, in the mountains of Colombia, watching the coffee grow.
Two years after the historic peace agreement that formally ended five decades of conflict between the Government of Colombia and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), peace is intimately linked with economic empowerment, justice and decent life. For the coffee-growing women of Tablón de Gómez, life is safer, at last. Now they are working to make their lives better, growing coffee and sowing peace.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/5/from-where-i-stand...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
March 13, 2019. Nairobi Kenya. Geo 6 Event. The 4th United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA 4. © NATALIA MROZ/ UNEP
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank GRoup President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
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Photos from the WTO Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 photo gallery may be reproduced provided attribution is given to the WTO and the WTO is informed. Photos: © WTO/Jay Louvion
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 101212-AM2012-MinSustainDevlpmnt049F
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Sunset at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is an award-winning catalyst and model for community conservation, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and features on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Green List of successful protected areas.
Kenya, February 2017
The New Restoration Economy is working to make restoration profitable and capable of attracting private investment.
Learn more here.
Photo by Andrew Wu, World Resources Institute.
March 14, 2019. Nairobi Kenya. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the Sustainable Innovation Expo. The 4th United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA 4. © NATALIA MROZ/ UNEP
To ensure the sustainability of the project, the new technicians are also taught how to train other villagers in the maintenance of these lamps, and encouraged to set up electronics repairs shops, which will generate a regular income.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
More than a thousand households and a school with 292 enrolled children in a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) community in Barangay Nanga-an, Kabacan, North Cotabato gain access to safe and clean water. About 57 local workers built the water system, the majority of them former combatants. The level II water system has 22 tap stands where safe and clean water will flow.
Know more about the project implemented in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to promote peace and provide decent work, funded by the Government of Japan: bit.ly/ilowatsan
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Kabacan, North Cotabato, Philippines
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March 14, 2019. Nairobi Kenya. The 4th United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA 4. © NATALIA MROZ/ UNEP
The African mountains stand out as areas with favourable climatic and ecological conditions, in contrast to the surrounding lowlands that are generally much drier. As a consequence of this, the total average population density in all African mountains is more than double the density of the lowlands. The driving economic forces now have better knowledge about and access to the rich natural resources in the mountains, including hydropower, minerals, timber and agricultural soils.
In Uganda, participants have visited Mount Elgon and communities on its slopes to observe emerging micro-climate changes, their causes and effects so to discuss coping mechanisms and suitable adaptation strategies.
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March 13, 2019. Nairobi Kenya. Women’s Ministerial Breakfast. The 4th United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA 4. © NATALIA MROZ/ UNEP
A few times a year, Human Connections organizes GETs (Global Engagement Trips) for student groups, tourists, and other visitors eager to gain a better understanding of the local culture in Nayarit, Mexico. This particular GET group, from Northern Illinois University, participated in a week long program centered around social entrepreneurship, NGO management, and sustainable development.
Learn more about HC and our GET programs:
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 101212-AM2012-MinSustainDevlpmnt054F
A few times a year, Human Connections organizes GETs (Global Engagement Trips) for student groups, tourists, and other visitors eager to gain a better understanding of the local culture in Nayarit, Mexico. This particular GET group, from Northern Illinois University, participated in a week long program centered around social entrepreneurship, NGO management, and sustainable development.
Learn more about HC and our GET programs:
A worker at Armin Food Materials Production Company, a small pasta manufacturer located in the northern city of Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan, watches as spaghetti strips come out from a pasta-making machine. With assistance from the USAID-funded Assistance in Building Afghanistan by Developing Enterprises (ABADE) Program, Armin Foods is modernizing its outdated facilities, making it more efficient, increasing production and, most importantly, creating new jobs. The ABADE Program spurs economic growth in Afghanistan by assisting small and medium companies to innovate, expand, and modernize their businesses through equipment procurement and technical support. These leveraged partnerships encourage more direct investments by Afghan companies in Afghanistan.
Credit: Assistance in Building Afghanistan by Developing Enterprises (ABADE) Program/Sohrab Samanian
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 101212-AM2012-MinSustainDevlpmnt050F
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank GRoup President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 101212-AM2012-MinSustainDevlpmnt026F
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
March 12, 2019. Nairobi Kenya. Youth and Sports event at the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA 4. © NATALIA MROZ/ UNEP
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 101212-AM2012-MinSustainDevlpmnt013F
October 12, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan: Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu will lead a discussion with over 20 Finance Ministers and Vice-Ministers of Finance and International Development focused on green fiscal poliies and the reforms needed to achive inclusive green growth. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
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Day laborers working in a nursery for Melia volkensii. Seeds are sown into the ground and cultivated for several weeks; sprouted seedlings are collected for individual planting. Prized for its drought tolerance, this indigenous species is planted for the production of high quality timber even in semi-arid climates.
Kenya, February 2017
The New Restoration Economy is working to make restoration profitable and capable of attracting private investment.
Learn more here.
Photo by Andrew Wu, World Resources Institute.
Ambassador David D Nelson (first row at the right) follows the Mobile Money videoconference held at the George C. Marshall Center at the U.S. Department of State. Guests from the public and private sector were invited to the Embassy to participate on the discussion.
[US Embassy photo by Pablo Castro]
The APFSD is the most inclusive regional platform on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
The sixth Forum, as in previous years, served as a preparatory event for the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) and engaged member States, United Nations bodies and other institutions, major groups and other stakeholders in highlighting regional and subregional perspectives on the 2019 theme of the HLPF, “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.
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US Embassy Montevideo invited local government authorities, journalists and private sector specialists to follow the Mobile Money discussion and participate through a videoconference.
[US Embassy photo by Pablo Castro]
The APFSD is the most inclusive regional platform on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
The sixth Forum, as in previous years, served as a preparatory event for the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) and engaged member States, United Nations bodies and other institutions, major groups and other stakeholders in highlighting regional and subregional perspectives on the 2019 theme of the HLPF, “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. © ILO
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The Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre is the venue for the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group meeting and the Senior Arctic Officials' executive and plenary meetings held in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada from 28 February to 5 March 2015.
Newcastle Disease (ND) vaccinators in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha state in India can today look towards bright prospects. The demand for their services has not only spawned new employment opportunities within their locales, but has also helped farmers protect their poultry flocks which would routinely be ravaged by Newcastle Disease outbreaks. In addition, the chance to become a poultry vaccinator and the income that comes along with it has empowered rural women, who can now use their hard earned money to invest in a better future for their families. Access to ND vaccination training in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha has been facilitated by the Bhodal Milk Producers Co-operative Society (BMPCS), a local NGO, and Heifer International in partnership with non-profit Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed).
Thirty-seven-year-old, Govardhan Naik from Suryapada always wanted to set up his own business. A university graduate, he first heard of an opportunity to be an ND vaccinator through a friend. After a four day training course that covered vaccination and first aid, he ventured into the field as a trained vaccinator. This was about four years ago.
Govardhan gets his supplies of the ND vaccine from a market at a nearby town, Kosta. He has also procured a refrigerator to store the vaccines and a motorcycle to help him reach the farmers. He serves around 400 households vaccinating close to 5,000 chickens every month. Providing additional services such as deworming and first aid, Govardhan brings home a net income averaging INR 8,000 (US $ 122) monthly, which has positively contributed to the economic well-being of his family.
His work as a vaccinator has brought him recognition from the locals and several of his friends have now shown an interest in the occupation, with one of them now an active vaccinator. “I will continue as a vaccinator even after this current project ends,” he says, referring to the ongoing GALVmed sponsored initiative, much to the relief of numerous households who are grateful for his services and want him to continue.
The effects of the poultry vaccinators’ work on the local economy are visible. When Govardhan first began vaccinating, an average village consisting of about 20 households would have a maximum of 70-80 chickens. After the first year of vaccination, the number skyrocketed to over 1,000. Farmers’ earnings from poultry rearing increased.
“If you work as a vaccinator, you can have an independent enterprise,” he adds.
A vial of the ND vaccine costs between INR 75 (US $1.16) and INR 100 (US $1.55). One vial can vaccinate up to 100 chickens. A vaccinator can charge INR 2 (US $ 0.03) per vaccination. There is also additional income derived from services such as deworming and first aid. For example, Govardhan earns another INR 3,000 or (US $46) from these additional services.
The involvement of women as vaccinators has also contributed to their economic empowerment and participation in decision making within the family unit and their communities. Mamata Mandal, 42, from Tikayatpur village in Ras Gobindpur block, is one such vaccinator. Mamata first got to know about vaccination from Anup Behra, the team leader of Unnayana, a local NGO. Coming from a family that has traditionally reared poultry and having witnessed high mortality of the birds, she readily took up the occupation.
Mamata procures her supplies from a small shop, about 7 km away from her village. Carrying a cool box to store the vaccines, she serves around 250 households in a 3km radius and vaccinates around 5,000 birds. Her services get her an income of INR 3,000 (US $ 46) every month. “With this income I can school my children and buy agricultural inputs for the farm,” she says.
BMPCS started the programme with just 7,500 families in 2011. By December 2016, the NGO had already reached more than 175,000 households. Today BMPCS supports more than 320 vaccinators in the project area.
Heifer International’s project was launched in September 2015. By May 2017, they had served as many as 62,316 households. Today, Heifer International supports more than 218 active vaccinators in the field.
Newcastle disease vaccination has helped turn around the lives of many individuals in Mayurbhanj. The vaccinators stand at the frontlines in the fight against the deadly poultry disease and their services are benefitting many smallholder farmers. And with a stable demand for their services, the vaccinators can hope for a better future.
Written by: Deepak Bhadana and edited by Prasenjit De of Alternatives for GALVmed.
Photography by Prasenjit De.