Special Issue: “Gender and Energy”
Energy is an essential input for sustaining people’s livelihoods, improving productivity and reducing poverty. Close to 60% of the 1.6 billion people who still lack access to electricity are in Asia and the Pacific. While about 80% of people without electricity are in rural households, over 13% live in urban areas in Asia and this figure rises to 30% for urban slums of South Asia. As a result, the majority of the poor households in Asia rely on traditional biomass sources (fuelwood, charcoal, dung and agricultural wastes) for cooking and heating.
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ADB Events
RETA Workshop: Preventing the Trafficking of Women and Children and Promoting Safe Migration in the GMS
25–27 July 2007, Discovery Suites, Manila
Southeast Asia Department (SERD) Director General Arjun Thapan delivered the keynote address. Leading researchers and development practitioners discussed the research findings on drivers of human trafficking and government/NGO experiences in developing community-based safe migration initiatives.
KYRM: RSGS/RSDD team launch Russian version of country gender assessment
 24 August 2007
A team from the Gender, Social Development and Civil Society Division/Regional and Sustainable Development Department (RSGS/RSDD) met with Uktomkhan Abdullaeva, Kyrgyz Republic's Minister of Labor and Social Protection, for the launch of the Russian version of the Country Gender Assessment.
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CEDPA: International Women’s Summit on HIV/AIDS
4 to 7 July • Nairobi, Kenya
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) organized the event where thousands of women leaders gathered to share strategies and demand urgent action to put women and girls at the center of efforts to fight AIDS.
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