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Women are listening attentively at the Water Users Association (WUA) meeting in Chhattisgarh, India. The farmers' harvests have improved due to the steady water supply and new planting techniques.
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Gender: www.adb.org/gender
Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River in Hazaribagh, Dhaka District, Bangladesh. The area is known for tanneries that provide work to the people, but they are also the reason for the pollution and poverty of the place.
ADB Photo | Abir Abdullah
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Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassawa flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Photo ID: AH-BJ-100917-5185 World Bank
Village scenes, including tying up cattle for the night, outside of Tamale, Ghana, June 23, 2006. Photo: © Jonathan Ernst/World Bank
Photo ID: JE-GH060624_34442 World Bank
A cocoa farmer shows his cocoa farm in the village of Adwenpaye, between Takoradi and Kumasi, Ghana, June 21, 2006. Photo: © Jonathan Ernst/World Bank
Photo ID: JE-GH060621_32916 World Bank
Properties built in a flood prone area in Popua Village. Popua Village is located on the outskirts of Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Tonga's small and open economy is vulnerable to external shocks and was hard hit by the global financial crisis. Development challenges include high levels of debt, limited employment opportunities, and low private sector investment levels.
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Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassava flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel / World Bank.
Photo ID: AH-BJ-100917-5279 World Bank
Engineers with workstations and various experimental devices at tech firm Cynapsys at the Tunis Tecnopark, Tunisia. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
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Furniture factory in a new industrial area near Gaza City, operated by Palestine Industrial Estates Development and Management Co. (PIEDCO). Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
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A shed in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State), Nigeria. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
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While in South Africa, Beyond Access visited the Masiphumelele library, which serves a population of more than 38,000 people — many of whom are young and unemployed.
Beyond providing internet access, the Masiphumelele library provides a range of services, including digital literacy and computer training, job readiness courses, tutoring and mentoring for youth, girl groups, and art programs.
Photo: Beyond Access
Farmer Sione Vaianginam with his children on their tractor in Nuku'alofa. Nuku'alofa is the capital of Tonga. Tonga's small and open economy is vulnerable to external shocks and was hard hit by the global financial crisis. Development challenges include high levels of debt, limited employment opportunities, and low private sector investment levels.
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Ragib Prodhan, 23, takes part in the welding training at the UCEP school under the Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP) in Chittagong. The program aims to scale-up qualifications of the labor force to contribute to the higher growth of priority sectors.
ADB Photo | Abir Abdullah
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The people in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State) have benefited greatly from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4684
The people in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State) have benefited greatly from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4710
Kazakh students playing the dombra. The dombra is a popular folk instrument in Kazakhstan.
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Workers unload ships docked at the port in Tema, Ghana, June 16, 2006. Photo: © Jonathan Ernst/World Bank
Photo ID: JE-GH060616_4338 World Bank
Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassava flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Photo ID: AH-BJ-100917-5213 World Bank
Pupils participate in a physical education class at Tutis Primary School in Oromia State of Ethiopia 26 November 2013. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2013/Ose
Mafi Fakaanga reading a book to her son during a visit by Lenny of Ma'a Fafine Moe Famili.
Ma'a Fafine Moe Famili (MFF) is a non-government organization established on April 2008 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga. MFF focuses their efforts on safeguarding human rights and enriching human development.
The Social Protection of the Vulnerable in Tonga aims to provide socioeconomic support to the vulnerable population to alleviate the impact of recent economic crises and weakening informal safety nets.
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Boy plays with brooms along the beach in Lepa, Upolu Island, Samoa. Samoa is well advanced in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Poverty has fallen faster than the targeted rate.
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Children play at their home in Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Kimbe is located on Kimbe Bay, which boasts of amazing coral reefs and diving expeditions.
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Children enjoying the day at the beach in Ebeye, an island within Kwajalein Atoll.
The Ebeye Water Supply and Sanitation Project is linking all households to upgraded freshwater and sewage facilities that reduce water leaks and sewage overflows.
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Social Development and Poverty
Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassawa flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Child helped by Ma'a Fafine Moe Famili (MFF).
Ma'a Fafine Moe Famili (MFF) is a non-government organization established on April 2008 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga. MFF focuses their efforts on safeguarding human rights and enriching human development.
The Social Protection of the Vulnerable in Tonga aims to provide socioeconomic support to the vulnerable population to alleviate the impact of recent economic crises and weakening informal safety nets.
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The people in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State) have benefited greatly from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4740
A Lubuk Beringin villager, Zoel, taps a rubber tree in the rubber forest near Lubuk Beringin village, Bungo district, Jambi province, Indonesia. Rubber plantations management on rubber agroforest form is a form of utilization and management of forest resource which is practised specifically by the Bungo community.
Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR
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The people in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State) have benefited from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4634
The people in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State) have benefited greatly from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4649
Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassawa flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank
Photo ID: AH-BJ-100917-5241
Women take part in the community decision making process under the Secondary Towns Infrastructure Development Project.
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The funeral of a chief in a fantasy coffin by Paa Joe in the village of Bortianor outside of Accra, Ghana, June 17, 2006. Photo: © Jonathan Ernst/World Bank
Photo ID: JE-GH060617_31102 World Bank
Man offering sakau extract, a traditional drink in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
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Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassava flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Photo ID: AH-BJ-100917-5195 World Bank
Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassawa flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. (Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassava flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Photo ID: AH-BJ-100917-5210 World Bank
Bapsfontein informal settlement. A farming area approximately 80km east of Johannesburg. The community now consists largely of foreigners such as Mozambiqians and Zimbabweans. It is a site where the Ekurhuleni Hosing Department is planning to construct affordable housing to replace the shacks and upgrade the area by installing services. 2007. Photo: John Hogg / World Bank
Photo ID: JH-ZA070827_0042 World Bank
The people in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State) have benefited greatly from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4383
Raufu Alaka is the chief in the fishing village of Orimedu (Lagos State), where people have benefited greatly from Nigeria's Fadama II project. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_100915_DSC_4530
Young pineapple plants grow at the Bomart Farms pineapple plantation in Nsawam near Accra, Ghana, June 19, 2006. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / World Bank
Photo ID: JE-GH060619_4688 World Bank
Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassawa flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have greatly benefited from Benin's national CDD project. Photo: © Arne Hoel/World Bank.
Children play at their home in Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Kimbe is located on Kimbe Bay, which boasts of amazing coral reefs and diving expeditions.
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Piece is the shop front of a business run by Eugenie Drakes. It specialises in indigenous craft from around Southern Africa. The women working in the shop have been nurtured by Eugenie, both are originally from the rural areas and are sisters. Beauty Maswanganyi is the shop manager as well as a contributing artist. 2007. Photo: © John Hogg/World Bank
Photo ID: JH-ZA070827_0118 World Bank