'Aiming to help all community colleges unleash their potential for workforce and economic development the Office of Vocational and Adult Education of the U.S. Department of Education sought to identify ways college leaders can improve those programs and services that most directly affect the ability of citizens to compete in today’s increasingly demanding skill-based labor market, and the ability of employers to compete in today’s challenging global market.'
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'To mitigate a drinking water crisis in Kathmandu valley, the Government of Nepal initiated the Melamchi Water Supply Project in 1997, which will divert water from the Melamchi River to Kathmandu city’s water supply network. In the first phase, the Project will divert 170,000 cubic meters of water per day (at the rate of 1.97M3/sec), which will be tripled using the same infrastructure as city water demand increases in the future. The large scale transfer of water would have farreaching implica more...
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'Domestic wastewater management, including sewage treatment, requires support from government, the public and the private sector. Sewage treatment has been seen as an internal household issue. If each house has a latrine, sewage treatment must be adequate. If the latrine is connected to a septic tank, so much the better. Yet data tell a disturbing story of large numbers of people suffering from diarrhea, and polluted groundwater. Research shows that the root cause of these problems is sewage. De more...
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'Urban IDPs are often denied basic human rights; living in squalor and lacking physical security and freedom of movement. Without documentation urban IDPs are left unprotected by their national government and suffer as a result of insufficient food, water, healthcare and education. Women and children displaced in urban areas are vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence. Moreover, urban IDPs are unable to improve their situation, since limited access to livelihoods prevents them from becomi more...
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Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UNEP, wrote on 'ideas for development' blog : « Images of the Beijing sky-line, seemingly bathed in a soup of smog and haze have been never far from the world’s TV screens over recent days and weeks. International reporters with hand-held air pollution detectors have been popping up on street corners checking the levels of soot and dust...»
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'Urban transport is essential to social and economic development. It enables movement of oods to markets and provides mobility to people for economic and personal activities. But motorized transport also imposes social and economic costs, one of the most important of which is the deterioration of urban air quality. In the coming decades, the level of motorization is expected to increase rapidly with rising income in developing countries, and so will the relative importance of urban air pollution more...
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Water Association (IWA) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement at World Water Week to establish an Asia-wide partnership called WaterLinks that will help provide clean drinking water and sanitation throughout the region by coordinating, promoting and aligning efforts to create Water Operators Partnerships (WOPs). WOPs have proven their value in many parts of the world by successfully pairing, or 'twinning,' wa more...
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