C. Grass roots innovations and rural livelihoods

(e) Division of Peasant Women and Rural Organization, in the Ministry of Agriculture, which encourages productive projects run by peasant women.

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To create sound living conditions in the village (aul) on the basis of the optimized rural settlement, the State Programme for Development of Rural Areas for 2004 2010 has been under implementation since 2004.

Livelihood industries are those, which assure sustainable sources of livelihoods for the rural poor.

Action plan for rural women

Inadequate health care.

We are supporting governance, human rights and sustainable rural livelihoods.

Programmes have been set up to develop the rural economy and to integrate employment opportunities in rural areas.

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

Employment of women in rural areas

According to general estimates, only 20 per cent of the rural population are linked to the basic sanitation system.

(c) Sanitary rural housing

It is specifically for the purpose of expanding the rural population's access to family planning services that the Ministry of Health is employing the practice of training midwives who work in rural areas.

None of the rural areas in Lebanon were particularly remote, and there was no great distinction between rural life and urban life.

Living in the city is really different to living in the country.

Its Rural Women apos s Office drew up the Plan of Action 1996 1997 to secure equality in rural development, giving priority to

Extremely high fertility rates are still found among women with no education living in rural areas on the Pacific Coast the total fertility rate is estimated at 5, and this figure rises to 7.1 in rural areas.

She noted that most Gambians lived in the rural areas and asked whether the Gambia's ten year plan (1999 2009) contained strategic objectives to advance the status of rural women.

Based on 2003 figures, 46.2 of maternal mortalities are in rural areas.

Mr. R. Balakrishnan, Executive Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, India

Women take an active part in the public life of the village.

(b) Rural women have equal access to medical care, including family planning information, counselling and services.

In 1994 an agreement was signed between IICA, the National Planning Department and the Ministry on the introduction of the policy for the development of rural women.

Many women (heads of households, rural teachers and physicians) receive plots.

The total demand for Family Planning Services (PF) in the urban areas is three times greater (24 ) than in rural areas (8 ).

It is also envisaged that 100 per cent coverage for water supply and sanitation services in urban and rural settlements will be achieved in the same period.

Another IFAD project, on enhancing rural livelihood through the revival of traditional handicrafts, in Central and Eastern Europe empowers the rural poor, particularly women, through greater opportunities in production of handicrafts.

As a consequence of the rural exodus and the transformation of rural areas into small cities and villages, the rural population has decreased from 24 in 1991 to 18 in 2000 (IBGE, Demographic Census).

And then I thought out of curiosity I'd like to go and live and work and just see what a village is like.

Around 65 per cent of young people live in the rural regions.

Nearly 68 of the population lives in rural areas.

Everyday life in the village differs from that in the city, but the situation is gradually improving. Today, virtually all rural residents have electricity, and two thirds have gas.

A facilitating environment for livelihood activities, agricultural production and the re establishment of rural trading networks has contributed to conditions for sustained, broad based poverty reducing growth.

There are no obstacles preventing rural women from obtaining prenatal care or family planning services from medical organizations.

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The aim of the Corporation is to implement State programmes for lending to agricultural commodity producers and or farm product processing enterprises through a system of rural credit associations created with the participation of the Corporation in their registered capital.

In 1994 1995 the Government began the work of incorporating women in the National Rural Employment Plan, the Support Programme for Rural Micro Enterprises, the Emergency Rural Employment Programme, and the Job Training Programme.

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In order to improve rural infrastructure and standard of life the Rural Development and Agricultural Market Regulation Act provides for various state benefits to support people living in rural areas.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.