Forging Partnerships to Provide Computer Literacy in Swaziland

2005 ◽  
pp. 305-309
Author(s):  
Cisco M. Magagula
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Global Population

The challenges facing the world, especially developing countries like Swaziland, are many and varied. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimates that over two billion people, out of a global population of six billion, do not have access to education. The majority of these people are found in developing countries. As many as 113 million children do not attend school. More than one billion people still live on less than US$1 a day and lack access to safe drinking water. More than two billion people in the world in developing countries in particular, lack sanitation. Every year, nearly 11 million young children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illnesses. The risk of dying in childbirth in developing countries is one in 48 (UNDP, 2003). In most developing countries, especially in remote areas, the situation is exacerbated by lack of electricity.

Forging Partnerships to Provide Computer Literacy in Swaziland

2008 ◽  
pp. 2394-2400
Author(s):  
C. M. Magagula
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Global Population

The challenges facing the world, especially developing countries like Swaziland, are many and varied. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimates that over two billion people, out of a global population of six billion, do not have access to education. The majority of these people are found in developing countries. As many as 113 million children do not attend school. More than one billion people still live on less than US$1 a day and lack access to safe drinking water. More than two billion people in the world in developing countries in particular, lack sanitation. Every year, nearly 11 million young children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illnesses. The risk of dying in childbirth in developing countries is one in 48 (UNDP, 2003). In most developing countries, especially in remote areas, the situation is exacerbated by lack of electricity.

Forging Partnerships to Provide Computer Literacy in Swaziland

2008 ◽  
pp. 2294-2307
Author(s):  
Cisco M. Magagula
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Global Population

The challenges facing the world, especially developing countries like Swaziland, are many and varied. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimates that over two billion people, out of a global population of six billion, do not have access to education. The majority of these people are found in developing countries. As many as 113 million children do not attend school. More than one billion people still live on less than US$1 a day and lack access to safe drinking water. More than two billion people in the world in developing countries in particular, lack sanitation. Every year, nearly 11 million young children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illnesses. The risk of dying in childbirth in developing countries is one in 48 (UNDP, 2003). In most developing countries, especially in remote areas, the situation is exacerbated by lack of electricity.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS IN DISSEMINATING PARLIAMENTARY INFORMATION IN ZIMBABWE: CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHALLENGES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Isaiah Munyoro ◽  
Archie L Dick
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
United Nations Development Programme ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
International Network ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

United Nations agencies and civil society organisations (CSOs) are working as development partners (DPs) with parliaments across the globe. They are engaged in activities to strengthen parliaments in both developed and developing countries. Data from a study that evaluated the performance of Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Constituency Information Centres (PCICs) showed that DPs play important roles in disseminating parliamentary information to constituents. This article analyses the contributions by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), and the challenges they face in Zimbabwe.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-190
Author(s):  
Philip Martin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Young People ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
Internal Migrants ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Nations Development

Much of the world’s extreme poverty is in rural and agricultural areas. Many young people living on farms in developing countries realize that they will never be able to climb the economic ladder and escape poverty if they farm as their parents and grandparents did. The bright lights of cities attract rural youth to urban areas at home and abroad, meaning that millions of people change both their residence from rural to urban and their occupation from farm to nonfarm each year. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated that there were four internal migrants who moved from agricultural to urban areas within their countries for each international migrant who left her country of birth and remained abroad a year or more (...

Internalisasi nilai-nilai transendensi untuk meningkatkan resilensi pasca tsunami di Aceh: Studi literatur melalui peran keluarga

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghozali Rusyid Affandi
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
United Nations Development Programme ◽  
Nations Development

Sepuluh tahun bencana tsunami di Aceh telah berlalu, tentunya banyak bantuan dari dalam dan luar negeri untuk perbaikan infrastruktur yang rusak akibat diterjang tsunami yang telah menewaskan lebih dari 100.000 orang dan total kerusakan diperkirakan mencapai lebih dari 4 juta dolar AS (United Nations Development programme Indonesia, 2007). Namun dampak secara psikologis seperti trauma, depresi karena kehilangan keluarga serta cacat fisik yang dialami tidak begitu saja hilang dari penyintas. Agar seseorang penyintas tsunami Aceh dapat berfungsi kembali dalam kehidup-annya setelah malapetaka yang menimpanya, dibutuhkan kemampuannya untuk bertahan, bangkit, dan menyesuaikan dengan kondisi sulit yang disebut dengan resiliensi. Ada banyak faktor protektif yang digunakan untuk menstimulasi, meningkatkan serta mempertahankan resiliensi para penyintas. Bisa jadi satu faktor protektif dapat secara efektif meningkatkan resiliensi di budaya tertentu, tetapi kurang efektif di budaya yang lain sebab ada batasan-batan budaya (culture bound) yang mempengaruhi pemaknaan konsep psikologi. Budaya Aceh yang berkenaan dengan kemampuan resiliensi penyintas tsunami adalah nilai-nilai Islami serta penerimaan terhadap kehendak Tuhan, yang berkaitan erat de-ngan konsep spiritualitas. Hasil beberapa penelitian menyebutkan bahwa faktor protektif yang berupa spiritualitas dapat meningkatkan resilensi seseorang. Oleh sebab itu, guna mempertahankan serta meningkatkan resiliensi, maka faktor protektif spiritualitas berlandaskan nilai-nilai Islami yang sesuai dengan budaya masyarakat Aceh perlu diinternalisasikan melalui keluarga dan sekolah. Penginternali-sasian spiritualitas tidak hanya berkenaan dengan pelaksanaan ritual Ibadah, akan tetapi lebih pada penguatan nilai-nilai transendensi.Kata kunci: resiliensi, transendensi, keluarga, budaya

Conference on the Role of Industrialisation in Developing Countries

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-442
Author(s):  
Ronald Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

At the fourth Cambridge conference on development problems, the role of industry was discussed by ministers, senior officials, economic advisers, and business executives, from 22 African, Asian, and Caribbean countries, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Have some, if not all, of Africa's new nations now reached the stage when it would pay them to put their biggest bets on quick industrialisation? Or must they go on putting most of their money and brains into bringing about an agricultural revolution first, before striving for industrial take-off? These questions started the conference off on one of its big themes.

Food security in the 21st century and in the role of biotechnology

foresight ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Pinstrup‐Andersen ◽  
Marc J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Adequate Diet ◽  
The World ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Global Food

Although global food production has consistently kept pace with population growth, the gap between food production and demand in certain parts of the world is likely to remain. More than 800 million people in developing countries lack access to a minimally adequate diet. Continued productivity gains are essential on the supply side, because global population will increase by 73 million people a year over the next two decades. In this article we assess the current global food situation, look at the prospects through to the year 2020, and outline the policies needed to achieve food security for all. Emphasis is on the role that agricultural biotechnology might play in reaching this goal.

Constitutional Analysis: A Proclamation of Children's Right to Protection, Provision, and Participation

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Tisdale Driskill ◽  
Paige LeForce DeFalco ◽  
Jill Holbert Lang ◽  
Janette Habashi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Developmental Index ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Constitutional Analysis

AbstractThe study of children's images as delineated in constitutional documents highlights the historical transitions that have occurred within and among countries, as manifested in the Convention of the Rights of the Child. As such, content analysis was administered to examine constitutional and amendment documents of 179 nation-states listed and recognized by the United Nations Development Programme in the Human Developmental Index. This analysis produced quantitative and qualitative data in which it described the ranking of each country and it's postulation toward children's protection, provision and participation as outlined by CRC. The findings provide greater understanding of the nation-state posture towards children as active rights bearers.

Infrastructures for Peace as a Path to Resilient Societies: An Institutional Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
United Nations Development Programme ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Reflective Essay

To prevent conflict and move away from fragility towards resilient societies, states increasingly adopt systematic efforts and institutionalised mechanisms to build the necessary capacities to manage conflict and promote peace. One such approach, ‘infrastructures for peace’, offers an inclusive and respectful response. This reflective essay describes the central features of infrastructures for peace and examines how they strengthen resilience within societies. It provides examples of such structures that are being supported by the United Nations Development Programme and its national partners, and examines how they have contributed to national governance and transformed conflict situations.

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