Artificial intelligence and human development
AI’s potential for enhancing development efforts is enormous, but we need to ensure its ethical and equitable use.
AI’s potential for enhancing development efforts is enormous, but we need to ensure its ethical and equitable use.
Nakacho was one of just a handful of women at this artisanal mining site who had managed to break away from the roles generally ascribed to her gender to become a part-owner of a mine shaft.
Land is an important source of security against poverty across the developing world, but, in many places, unequal rights to land put women at a disadvantage, perpetuates poverty, and entrenches gender inequality.
Popular participation, local democracy, grassroots organization — watchwords the world over for both social movements and development organizations.
Humanity is rediscovering the need for a harmonious relationship with the Earth.
The concept of sustainable development was set out in the Brundtland Report in 1987 and since has become part of the environmental and political vocabulary of the South and the North.
This books examines the failure of regional integration and cooperation to date in West Africa and explores some of the options for the revitalization of such initiatives.
This book is intended to assist both external and internal efforts to strengthen organizations and to provide a framework for documenting the effects of such efforts.
The right to housing is a basic human right. This was reaffirmed in June 1996 when governments from around the world gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, for Habitat II — the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements.
Farmers in the parts of Africa where population growth is near, or has exceeded, the carrying capacity of the land at current technological levels face a serious crisis. This crisis is the result of the breakdown of traditional farming systems.