Ways of supporting the processes of human development
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The multidimensional process of human development and ways to measure it:
The importance of social entrepreneurship approaches for human development:
Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities How actions to support human development involve spatial interactions from local to global scales |
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5. Create a JUSTIFIED argument for the top 3 most important SDG's for combating global inequality. 6. Create a JUSTIFIED argument for the top 3 most achievable SDG's for combating global inequality. |
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Watch the video and make notes on the most significant points raised.
Watch the video and make notes on the most significant points raised.
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Read pages 573 to 575 in your textbook. Make notes on the Index presented and complete Activity 1 on page 575.
Read pages 573 to 575 in your textbook. Make notes on the Index presented and complete Activity 1 on page 575.
Empowering women
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Read the information and watch the videos, making notes and answering the tasks and questions.
Read the information and watch the videos, making notes and answering the tasks and questions.
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Watch the video and consider the questions below.
Is Hans Rosling correct? Why? Why not?
How does the information Rosling gives agree with the case studies above?
Can you think of any criticisms of the argument presented? Methodology? Scale? Validity of data?
Watch the video and consider the questions below.
Is Hans Rosling correct? Why? Why not?
How does the information Rosling gives agree with the case studies above?
Can you think of any criticisms of the argument presented? Methodology? Scale? Validity of data?
The UN Capital Development Fund makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs). UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.
Watch the videos and explain how the UNCDF attempts to close the development gap through enabling capital flows in the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Watch the videos and explain how the UNCDF attempts to close the development gap through enabling capital flows in the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Empowering indigenous and minority groups
Despite the immense diversity of indigenous cultures, the challenges confronting indigenous peoples are often strikingly alike. Several issues come to the forefront across the continents:
- In addition to facing discrimination due to their ethnicity, members of indigenous communities often belong to linguistic minorities, causing hardship in education, employment and everyday life.
- Many lands once belonging to indigenous peoples have been encroached upon and settled by newcomers. With little legal protection, indigenous peoples can rarely recover the lands they traditionally occupied.
- Indigenous communities are often situated in remote, rural areas, where they lack infrastructure and access to larger markets.
- Indigenous communities have also played a historically important role in environmental protection. Traditional livelihoods in indigenous communities may depend upon plant and animal species and other parts of fragile ecosystems. Environmental damage therefore often most severely impacts their economies.
- Land reform and property laws have restricted many nomadic indigenous groups, often making their traditional occupations untenable.
- As they are often marginalised, even where they might constitute a national majority group, most indigenous and tribal peoples lack clout in national and even local government, and their interests and needs are often ignored by decision-makers.
- Years of discrimination have cast many indigenous people into poverty, thus further damaging their chances at empowerment and opportunities to improve their situation.
CHALLENGES FACED BY INDIGENOUS WOMEN
The intersection of ethnic and gender identities means that indigenous women often face multiple discrimination. Frequently excluded from decision-making at all levels, indigenous women number among the world’s most disadvantaged people.
Even in those indigenous societies where women were historically empowered, drastic changes in economic and political structures in recent decades have eroded women’s traditional opportunities for financial independence. The hardship caused by the destruction of traditional industries has often fallen unduly on women, robbing them of social safety nets and opportunities for employment. Indigenous women often face disproportionately high mortality rates, low literacy rates and high levels of poverty.
Even in those indigenous societies where women were historically empowered, drastic changes in economic and political structures in recent decades have eroded women’s traditional opportunities for financial independence. The hardship caused by the destruction of traditional industries has often fallen unduly on women, robbing them of social safety nets and opportunities for employment. Indigenous women often face disproportionately high mortality rates, low literacy rates and high levels of poverty.
EMPOWERING INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN BOLIVIA AND GUATEMALA
As a result of exclusion and discrimination, indigenous women are often the poorest of the poor. They struggle more to find decent work.
In Bolivia and Guatemala, the ILO and its partners are working to advance the rights of indigenous women, empower them economically and help them attain social justice.
In Bolivia and Guatemala, the ILO and its partners are working to advance the rights of indigenous women, empower them economically and help them attain social justice.
Microfinance
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Note the final conclusions and take aways given in the textbook.