(2008) Depuis de nombreuses années, les bailleurs de fonds et les gouvernements concentrent leur attention sur la planification familiale en Afrique de l'Ouest, tant pour améliorer la santé maternelle et infantile que pour renforcer le développement économique.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 calls for full and productive employment and decent work for all. In our latest Population Bulletin, we explain how demographic trends will have a bearing on whether and how rapidly this and other SDG goals are achieved.
(2006) Over the past decade, a growing number of small population-environment field projects, funded principally by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have achieved not only their main goals—which varied from increasing child immunization and family planning to protecting mangrove forests—but also helped reduce poverty within project areas.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
In Burkina Faso’s Sahel Region, an administrative region in the northeastern part of the country, girls are more likely to drop out of primary and lower secondary school than girls nationally, resulting in lower girls’ educational attainment in the Sahel Region compared to the rest of the country.
(2001) Eco-tourism has emerged as one of the most important sectors of the international tourism industry. The United Nations, recognizing eco-tourism's potential role in sustainable development, has declared 2002 the "International Year of Eco-tourism."
(2011) What Works for Women and Girls: Evidence for HIV and AIDS Interventions synthesizes the vast research literature on program interventions (through the end of 2009) to provide clear evidence of what works and what seems most promising for women and girls that improve a range of HIV outcomes.
On this World Population Day, we’re examining the state of the care economy in the United States—and looking abroad for ways to strengthen it.
