Microsoft Word - EVD-policy-brief2.4-layout.docx Eco-village Development as Climate Solution Policy Brief by INFORSE and CANSA, June 2015 Executive Summary More than half of the South Asian population of 1.7 billion people live in rural areas and many of the poverty problems of the region are in the villages. [...] Some of the policy issues to be addressed to allow development with EVD solutions are: Subsidy and policy reform: Subsidies to fossil-fuels and for grid extension are far higher than public financial and technical support for local, sustainable solutions. [...] In the short term a ‘Leapfrog Fund’ should be established from global mitigation finance to support South Asia in moving towards a low-carbon economy, with focus on EVD solutions, The UNFCCC climate-technology mechanism could contribute additionally to the facilitation of the exchange of knowledge, experience, and technologies,. [...] Availability of IWM services in the locality helps to increase in resilience of the community and also reducing the drudgery, especially of the women and girl children. [...] In these projects focus are on the how the development process, assisted by the capacity-building of ‘end users’, makes these interventions sustainable and enduring even after the withdrawal of the national organisations at the conclusion of the project period.
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