Publications on labour migration
February 2015
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Report III (Part 1B)
Giving a voice to rural workers
05 February 2015
January 2014
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
March 2011
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Rural Policy Briefs: Labour Migration Governance for Rural Development
16 March 2011
Migration provides many poor rural households with a livelihood strategy. However, it can also disrupt local employment, undermine family and community cohesion and engender dangerous and exploitative working conditions.
March 2010
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Gender and Rural Employment Policy Brief #6: Making migration work for women and men in rural labour markets
23 March 2010
Many poor rural households see migration to urban or other rural areas, or abroad, as a strategy to escape poverty or improve the quality of their lives. Migration patterns vary by continent and even countries within continents, and change over time. One of the most significant changes in the last half century is the increasing proportion of women migrating: today, they constitute half of the international migrant population, often migrating independently as the main economic providers for their families.