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Rural Skills Training

Generic Manual on Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE)

The Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) methodology ensures that training is linked to economic and employment opportunities, and that disadvantaged target groups, including poor women and people with disabilities, can realize these...

Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Works (TIM-Works) in Timor-Leste

Covers Timor-Leste's development challenges, the employment-intensive infrastructure works, and the Timor-Leste’s way forward.

Brief

Green jobs assessment in agriculture and forestry sector in Bangladesh

The concept of green jobs is a new one. It focuses on the climate change impacts on earth and searches the ways for sustainable economic and social development and environmental protection at national, regional and global level. This includes jobs...

Training Guidelines

Contracting Local Infrastructure Works

Support to sustainable rural infrastructure development services for poverty reduction in the Asia Pacific Region - ASIST AP (Final...

Project RAS/04/12/SID - Evaluation consultant: Ulf Brudefors

Sala set making

Training guide on wooden furniture (sala set making)

Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) builds on the experience gained in earlier community-based training (CBT) projects in Mindanao and in many other countries. These CBT projects proved to be very successful at creating livelihood...

Integrated rural accessibility planning

This brochure outlines the concepts of integrated rural accessibility planning, its strategy for implementation with particular reference to Sri Lanka.

Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning Project (IRAP) – Sri Lanka: A Component of UNOPS’ Community Access Programming (Final Evaluation...

Project SRL/07/02/ONU

ILO/BDS Zambia: Developing Business Service Markets for Micro and Small Enterprises in Zambia (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project ZAM/03/01/SID

Rural Development Programme for Timor-Leste (RDP): Skills Training for Gainful Employment (STAGE) (Mid-Term Evaluation Summary)

Project TIM/03/01/USA

Rural road maintenance: Sustaining the Benefits of Improved Access

Socio-Economic Technical Papers (SETP) No. 19

Empower rural women - end poverty and hunger: the potential of African cooperatives. Initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa

This leaflet provides an overview of how cooperatives can help to bridge gender gaps for positive development and poverty-reduction outcomes, and of possible action points for unleashing the potential of cooperatives based on examples from...

Creating Jobs: Capacity building for local resource-based road works in selected districts in NAD and Nias (Mid-Term Evaluation Summary)

Project INS/51/071/11

Cambodia shifting-cultivation report

Business Training for Entrepreneurs in Vietnam

Infrastructure for rural productivity

Philippines infrastructure for rural productivity enhancement: Tools for identifying rural infrastructure investment priorities

Infrastructure development supports agricultural growth upon which much poverty reduction efforts depend. Infrastructure also directly impacts on poverty through improved access to facilities good and services.