Filed under: Gender equality Health HIV Human rights Poverty Social inclusion
Is violence against women becoming the norm in Tajikistan? According to the Millennium Development Goals Women and Men in the Republic of Tajikistan (pdf) report, approximately half of all women in Tajikistan believe that violence by a husband against his wife is acceptable. The rates are even higher among rural residents. This is not acceptable…. Read more »
Filed under: Central Asia Development Environment Poverty
Imagine going to school and it’s five degrees Celsius in your classroom. Brrr! I learned from my colleague Martin Krause that the average classroom in Central Asia ranges from 4.3 to 6.9 degrees. This was during a discussion on sustainable energy in countries in the region, organized by the Turkish Permanent mission in New York… Read more »
Filed under: Central Asia Disaster response Environment Peace and security Poverty
Across the globe, many countries are experiencing severe drought, particularly major grain exporting countries in Europe. This is likely to affect everyone as the world’s breadbaskets will see much lower than average yields this harvest. Two of the largest exporters of grain in the Commonwealth of Independent States – Russia and Kazakhstan – will be hit hard, and it will… Read more »
Filed under: Central Asia Health HIV
We recently met with partners from Central Asia at the Technical Consultation on experiences and challenges in prevention of HIV in injecting drug users in the Central Asian Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) European region. The meeting was organized under the lead of WHO Europe in collaboration with the Ministry of Health… Read more »
Filed under: Central Asia Poverty
About 925 million people are undernourished (pdf) in the world and Central Asia is no exception. People living in Central Asia are severely impacted by fluctuations in food prices. The primary concern related to food security in the region is the relatively high level of poverty faced by Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (47.2 percent and 31.7 percent, respectively),… Read more »
Filed under: Disaster response
A recent policy brief on natural disaster risks in Central Asia has shed some light on earthquake risks in Central Asia. (See full report - Natural disaster risks in Central Asia: A synthesis) Central Asia is characterized by high seismic activity. Over the past sixty years many large earthquakes have caused large loss of life and significant… Read more »
Filed under: Climate change Disaster response Environment
Alessandra Bravi @alessandrabravi Last week’s policy brief, Natural Disaster Risks in Central Asia, based on a UNDP review of available risks assessments, has provided some interesting information on landslides in Central Asia. Landslides are one of the main natural hazards facing Central Asia. Their triggers vary, but they include the steepness of slopes – which has… Read more »
Filed under: Migration and remittances Poverty Social inclusion
Alessandra Bravi The latest data on remittances confirm what we predicted in our previous analysis: the bifurcated trend in remittance growth between countries in the former Soviet Union and in Europe in 2010 continued throughout 2011. Preliminary 2011 dollar remittance estimates for Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey show significantly lower growth in 2011 compared to the over 20… Read more »
Filed under: Development Human rights Social inclusion
Jens Wandel I just returned from an inspiring meeting in Poland with Mohammed Yunus whose perspective on social businesses are still fermenting into ideas for action. For now, this blog covers another light bulb which ignited in Poland: genuine inclusion of people with disabilities. Polish laws are strongly in favour of enriching the workplaces of people… Read more »
Filed under: Poverty Social inclusion
Janne Sivonen, Executive Director at Fairtrade Finland When a Finnish consumer buys Fairtrade products, in most cases that product comes from Africa or Latin America. But global poverty can be found closer to home, even in the countries that previously were our neighbors. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are ranked lower in terms of human development by UNDP… Read more »
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