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The overall objective of the project is to advance the sustainable development of rural areas in the Guba-Khachmaz economic zone through an economic development model that integrates agriculture and non-agriculture sectors (Summer 2016).
Moldova: Through the comprehensive inventory conducted, a computer-based carbon monitoring database was also developed by the project.
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Scenes from the event "What Can We Do to Empower Rural Women in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?" commemorating the 2014 International Day for Rural Women and held at United Nations Headquarters on October 15, 2014.
The event was co-chaired by Ambassador Guillermo E. Rischynski of Canada and Ambassador O. Enkhtsetseg of Mongolia and featured panelists: Talayibek Kydyrov, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the UN; Thomas Yanga, director - interagency partnership division (WFP) representing Rome-based agencies FAO, WFP and IFAD; Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director; Sarah Campbell, World Farmers Organization/ National Farmers’ Union Foundation.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The DGF meeting was held on 15 December 2011 to plan activities for DGF Phase 2. The group comprised the DGF partners: UNEP, ICIMOD, World Bank and Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS).
Photo credit: ©FAO/Tullia Baldassarri H. von H.
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To launch ODI's new event series - #GlobalChallenges - Professor Jeffrey Sachs discussed financing for sustainable development, focusing on the critical role of international public finance as a driver for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
Professor Sachs was joined by Romilly Greenhill (ODI), Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen (Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations), and Aggrey Tisa Sabuni (Economic Adviser to the President, South Sudan). The event was chaired by Kevin Watkins (ODI).
For more about the event, visit: www.odi.org/events/4089-financing-sustainable-development
For more about the #GlobalChallenges event series, visit: www.odi.org/events/4088-globalchallenges
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Caption:Bicycle-taxi in the streets of Amsterdam. Netherlands. April 2007.
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Khamis is a shepherd in the summer pastures areas of Azerbaijan (Ismayilli region). Thanks to the project "Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change", he learned how to manage his pastures in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner, while improving pasture/soil conditions and land management practices. This photograph was taken in the Summer of 2016. For more information, visit: www.climaeast.eu/clima-east-activities/pilot-projects/pil...
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Caption:Refuse incinerator. Waste processing centre. Seynod. France.
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Scenes from the event "What Can We Do to Empower Rural Women in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?" commemorating the 2014 International Day for Rural Women and held at United Nations Headquarters on October 15, 2014.
The event was co-chaired by Ambassador Guillermo E. Rischynski of Canada and Ambassador O. Enkhtsetseg of Mongolia and featured panelists: Talayibek Kydyrov, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the UN; Thomas Yanga, director - interagency partnership division (WFP) representing Rome-based agencies FAO, WFP and IFAD; Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director; Sarah Campbell, World Farmers Organization/ National Farmers’ Union Foundation.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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A girl lives with her family in a shelter built under the ILO emergency employment and livelihood recovery response. The ILO engaged typhoon-affected community members as workers and provided them with decent work opportunities including wages and social protection benefits.
Photo ©ILO / Minette Rimando
23 July 2012
Iligan City, Philippines
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Studies have shown that climate change will cause a shift of climatic zones in the ecosystems of Altai-Sayan, resulting in the migration of animals and plants. In response, a buffer zone of about 600,000 hectares of protected forests has been created between the Western and Eastern part of the region to protect the migration routes of globally threatened species, such as the snow leopard, lynx, European red deer, elk, argali, and more.
FInd out more about Adapting to climate change in Altai-Sayan
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The DGF meeting was held on 15 December 2011 to plan activities for DGF Phase 2. The group comprised the DGF partners: UNEP, ICIMOD, World Bank and Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS).
Photo credit: ©FAO/Tullia Baldassarri H. von H.
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The cost of disasters were summed up last night in dollars lost, people displaced, lives lost as one would expect at a meeting hosted by Columbia University with the theme "From Sendai to Rio -- Cultivating a Disaster-Resilient Society for Sustainable Development."
However, what also shone through in this major debate on the theme of disaster risk reduction in advance of the Rio+20 conference, were the unexpected ways in which disasters can affect our lives driven by new forces which Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, said "we are not ready for."
Read more: www.unisdr.org/archive/26190
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Scenes from the event "What Can We Do to Empower Rural Women in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?" commemorating the 2014 International Day for Rural Women and held at United Nations Headquarters on October 15, 2014.
The event was co-chaired by Ambassador Guillermo E. Rischynski of Canada and Ambassador O. Enkhtsetseg of Mongolia and featured panelists: Talayibek Kydyrov, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the UN; Thomas Yanga, director - interagency partnership division (WFP) representing Rome-based agencies FAO, WFP and IFAD; Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director; Sarah Campbell, World Farmers Organization/ National Farmers’ Union Foundation.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Studies have shown that climate change will cause a shift of climatic zones in the ecosystems of Altai-Sayan, resulting in the migration of animals and plants. In response, a buffer zone of about 600,000 hectares of protected forests has been created between the Western and Eastern part of the region to protect the migration routes of globally threatened species, such as the snow leopard, lynx, European red deer, elk, argali, and more.
FInd out more about Adapting to climate change in Altai-Sayan
Photo courtesy of UNDP in Kazakhstan
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at Sustainable Development and Conservation event in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, August 31, 2012. You can read the Secretary's remarks here: www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/08/197268.htm. [State Department photo by Ola Thorsen/ Public Domain]
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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.
Studies have shown that climate change will cause a shift of climatic zones in the ecosystems of Altai-Sayan, resulting in the migration of animals and plants. In response, a buffer zone of about 600,000 hectares of protected forests has been created between the Western and Eastern part of the region to protect the migration routes of globally threatened species, such as the snow leopard, lynx, European red deer, elk, argali, and more.
FInd out more about Adapting to climate change in Altai-Sayan
Photo courtesy of UNDP in Kazakhstan
Scenes from the event "What Can We Do to Empower Rural Women in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?" commemorating the 2014 International Day for Rural Women and held at United Nations Headquarters on October 15, 2014.
The event was co-chaired by Ambassador Guillermo E. Rischynski of Canada and Ambassador O. Enkhtsetseg of Mongolia and featured panelists: Talayibek Kydyrov, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the UN; Thomas Yanga, director - interagency partnership division (WFP) representing Rome-based agencies FAO, WFP and IFAD; Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director; Sarah Campbell, World Farmers Organization/ National Farmers’ Union Foundation.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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Caption:Iron scrap collection site. Seynod. France.
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Caption:Waste processing centre. Seynod. France.
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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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IFPRI hosted a policy seminar titled “Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement” on December 3, 2015. For more information, please visit: www.ifpri.org/event/economics-land-degradation-and-improv...
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Trekking through the jungle to reach the Penan people in Sarawak - visitors to the area arrive through our responsible travel and ethical tourism partner organisation Adventure Alternative, and we help the local community to benefit greatly from this, ensuring that the slow but steady flow of tourists contributes to a community led process of sustainable development.
Living Earth Foundation has been working in Nigeria since 1996, previously in partnership with the Living Earth Nigeria Foundation (LENF).
Living Earth Foundation has primarily worked in two key states in Nigeria; Bayelsa and Cross River State, located in the heart of the Niger River Delta on the southern coast of Nigeria. The Delta region is one of Nigeria’s most biodiversity rich areas; its mangrove forest is the largest in Africa and the third largest in the world. The area also contains Nigeria’s main oil reserves and since the discovery of oil in the region in 1956, major infrastructural developments including the building of roads and pipelines, along with an influx of migrant workers have taken place. Two million people now live in Bayelsa State and this, along with on-going development, is greatly impacting on the Delta’s ecosystem.
The natural resources of the Niger Delta are vital to the livelihoods of communities living there; communities generate income through livelihoods including farming, hunting, fishing and trading in forest products. As the oil industry has expanded, increased immigration and access to forests and fisheries has resulted in an over exploitation and unsustainable use of the Delta’s natural resources, threatening the livelihoods of the inhabitants in the area.
Living Earth’s community development and environmental education work enables communities to identify and address environmental problems whilst learning to manage their own resources.
Find out more here; livingearth.org.uk/projects/nigeria/
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.
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Caption:Waste processing centre. Seynod. France.
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21 April 2016 -- Opening Ceremony of General Assembly High-level Thematic Debate on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Photo exhibition at the Palais des Nations entitled "Shared Risks, Shared Responsibility: Opportunities for Cooperation".
This photo exhibit is an event to highlight existing practices and opportunities to build disaster resilient communities and nations, as part of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a ten-year plan endorsed by the General Assembly in 2005 to coordinate country efforts to reduce disaster risk.
It provides visual evidence of how countries are interpreting the HFA principles to reduce risk to protect and advance development, and the need for this important work to be fully integrated into sustainable development initiatives.
More info: www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/30989
Sun International donates much needed medical equipment to the value of half a million Rand to clinics in Alexandra townships. Find out more
Belarus: A water canal at Zvaniec fen mire is part of groundwater level regulating activities restoring and re-wetting the peatlands.
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Day three at the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development at the World Conference Center (WCC) in Bonn, March 03, 2017. © photothek/Inga Kjer.
Izabella Teixeira, Brazil's Minister of Environment at the UN Women Leaders Forum ahead of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Fabricio Barreto
Scenes from a side event during the 70th General Assembly: "Using Inclusive Partnerships to Deliver on the SDGs: the Role of Gender-Responsive Budgeting."
The side event built on a series of high-level meetings on transformative financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment and highlighted how inclusive partnerships can improve the effectiveness, quality and impact of financing for gender equality. It showcased country level application of gender-responsive budgeting as a key driver for increasing resources to achieve gender equality commitments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Moreover, the event will demonstrate the contribution of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) as a dynamic platform for fostering mutual learning and contributing to implementation of the SDGs.
The event was hosted by Malawi, Mexico and the Kingdom of the Netherlands as Co-Chairs of the GPEDC, as well as UN Women.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Nahla Sukkari has worked in the making of Fekha carpets for 35 years. “Ever since I started this work, it has provided for my children and me,” she said. “It meant we did not have to rely on anyone. Each piece motivates me to keep improving.”
The wool Nahla uses comes from the Hima community. Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management. Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.
Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.
With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management.
See more: youtu.be/vxDWsv6FZks
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
The thing is, everyone is trying to find ways to stop global warming through new technology.
Nothing wrong with this in itself, great, however it seems no-one is really speaking about the fundamental reasons global warming has come about.
We keep saying it has come about from burning too many fossil fuels, too many cows, too much carbon emission etc.
These are secondary causes, not first causes.
Very few people seem to be really addressing the reasons why we do these things in the first place.
We tend to take it as a given that we should do these things, and then try and find a better way to do them.
Thus the current mainstream attitude is still an effort to try and produce the same level of energy, the same level of consumer goods, yet somehow make all the technology ‘green’. We're still trying to have the cake and eat it too.
I have my doubts this can actually work, no matter how ingenious and devoted we are to the idea. The reason is this:
At the core level, the reason global warming has come about (not to mention other destructions of the earth) is because we are greedy and have produced an excessive amount of material goods, far beyond what we need for happiness and health.
It is easy to blame large corporations, however they can only exist if the individual supports them by buying their products, and we all demand the products of the large corporations, so as individuals we are all to blame.
No-one wants to hear this though because changing yourself seems too hard, we demand that governments enforce big business to change, we hope scientists will come up with new technologies.. and hope these things will solve everything whilst we keep acquiring.
The basic problem is what we have always been told through spiritual teachers down the ages... it is ego, which produces division and greed.
Ego has been at the core of all our wars, both personal and country. Ego demands, it wants to consume and enlarge itself. It does this on many levels; food, wealth, power, division, land acquisition, violence, ideas, identities. It does this on the personal level, and in group levels in everything from a football team to a national identity, any group where individuals gather part or all of their identity from the group.
There is a natural reason the ego has evolved, but we have barely examined it scientifically and dealt with the enormous range of problems it has produced in our societies.
If we change our technologies but don’t examine the very reasons we demand to acquire so much in the way of material possessions, we are not going to solve the problems, they will still be there in a new package. Or we will solve some problems as new ones grow, which is all we have ever done so far.
The reason that no-one is seriously speaking about the core reasons for global warming, is because deep down few people are prepared to actually change. We are scared of the planet dying and even governments are beginning to take small steps toward changing this situation, however we are only taking steps that involve keeping our current standard of acquisition and wealth. We keep speaking about economic impact, and never a word is said about spiritual impact, spiritual worth, or simply preserving beauty.
Governments still aren’t interested in beauty, only money. They will only change technology structures if there is money in it. Therefore nothing is really changing. The Australian government is STILL talking about 'sustainable development' which is one of the more transparently absurd philosophical ideas around. It doesnt take a huge intellect to realise that on a planet of limited size, development and acquisition cannot go on forever. Yet still almost no-one wants to stop!
So the change must begin at a very personal level, which is to try and understand why we demand so much personally, and does it truly bring happiness health and wisdom?
But few people want to seriously entertain the idea of having less, we are terrified of it in fact, because the entire structure of society has brought us up otherwise, the entire system is structured around economic wealth being the thing that holds us together. We are so brainwashed it has become nearly impossible to see another solution to finding happiness.
It is barely our fault however, we have been brainwashed relentlessly from the day we are born to look outward for happiness and satisfaction, never inward. It is this continual reaching outward to the material world that has produced our desire for so much, which is what is now causing the destruction of the ecosystem of an entire planet.
We need to address this first, or at least at the very same time that we are trying to make new technologies.
Solar power was used 1986 to completely energize the 80,000 square foot Barefoot College campus at Tilonia. The College campus now is totally self-sufficient with a 40 kilowatt solar energy unit meeting all its energy needs.
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.
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A new UNDP programme is now working to accelerate the demining process in a coordinated manner.
A girl lives with her family in a shelter built under the ILO emergency employment and livelihood recovery response. The ILO engaged typhoon-affected community members as workers and provided them with decent work opportunities including wages and social protection benefits.
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To launch ODI's new event series - #GlobalChallenges - Professor Jeffrey Sachs discussed financing for sustainable development, focusing on the critical role of international public finance as a driver for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
Professor Sachs was joined by Romilly Greenhill (ODI), Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen (Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations), and Aggrey Tisa Sabuni (Economic Adviser to the President, South Sudan). The event was chaired by Kevin Watkins (ODI).
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