June 2020

1. 

   Publication

   India - Rapid assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on employment

   16 June 2020

   This rapid assessment considers the likely impact of the COVID crisis on enterprises and livelihoods and incomes of workers – regular and non-regular, protected and unprotected. It checks the policy responses to the economic crisis and examines initiatives to protect both enterprises and workers, especially the most vulnerable.

January 2014

1. Publication

   Reporting on Rural Issues

   27 January 2014

   This guide is a tool for people working in the media to think differently and report differently about rural areas. It provides key facts and figures about rural communities and issues, and aims to shatter some dominant stereotypes and negative clichés when covering rural issues.

2. Publication

   Chapter 8: Songaï, Benin

   27 January 2014

   Songhaï is an NGO empowering rural African communities, particularly farmers, youth, and women, by building their capacities to become agricultural, agribusiness, and handicraft entrepreneurs.

3. Publication

   Chapter 7: Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India

   27 January 2014

   The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is a membership-based organization created in 1972 from a combination of the labour, women, and cooperative movements, to organize self-employed women in the informal economy and assist their collective struggle for social justice, equality, and fair treatment.

4. Publication

   Chapter 5: The Nyamata Telecentre and the Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN), Rwanda

   27 January 2014

   Founded in 2004, the Nyamata Telecentre is a private enterprise whose goal is to stimulate rural development by providing access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the village of Nyamata, located near Rwanda’s capital Kigali.

5. Publication

   Learning from Catalyst of Rural Transformation

   27 January 2014

   This publication reviews 8 cases of "Catalyst" of rural transformation from different countries. It extracts lessons that remind us of the economic and development potential of rural areas, and most important, the central role of rural men and women, young people, indigenous populations and other groups to unleash that potential.