Villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, …
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IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 9 January 2025 English
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administrative posts and 561 health centres in 260 villages as of March 2019. FUNAE prioritised solar electrification …
Resolution Foundation · 8 January 2025 English
The age of the median person in the UK has risen from 33.9 years in 1974 to 40.7 years by 2022, with the share of the those aged over 65 …
rural villages (which refers to the group of local authorities dominated mostly by rural villages). A decomposition … decomposition shows that the drivers of ageing in villages since 2001 are lower rates of in-migration (both … of the country. For example, the birth rate in villages stands at 9.5 per 1,000 people compared to 14 … is a rising median age gap between cities and villages, but London is bucking this trend over the last … local authorities into ‘cities’, ‘towns’ and ‘villages’, where the classification is based on the type …
WHO: World Health Organization · 8 January 2025 English
The scale of destruction from the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes substantially increased health needs for the affected population, requiring a wide-ranging response from the Government of Türkiye and its partners. This …
services, multidisciplinary mobile teams visited villages every two days where they provided a wide range … container cities, or during visits by mobile teams to villages. The collected information was consolidated by … mobile teams (from both the MoH and TRC) visited villages every two days; this started on the fourth day …
BHR: Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law · 8 January 2025 English
Conducting information Regularly RMD, CS Number of In the process of implementation events in the field of human information In cooperation with the public organization rights with the involvement of …
Authorities; 40. LGA - Local Government Authorities of villages and communities (jamoats); 41. CS - Civil Society; …
J-PAL: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab · 8 January 2025 English
The socioeconomic measures that researchers and policymakers typically use to measure the benefits of electricity for households do not fully capture the ways in which electricity is valuable and beneficial …
were more closely analyzed by different types of villages, expenditures, firm growth, and industrial sector … large villages and villages with more economic activity, but not in small villages or villages not experiencing …
GWM: Global Water Monitor · 6 January 2025 English
The Global Water Monitor 2024 Summary Report provides a comprehensive assessment of global water resources and their variability throughout the year. This third annual report documents significant hydrological trends, extreme …
Thailand, rivers breached their banks, submerging villages and agricultural land. Myanmar bore the brunt … low- lying areas and cutting off access to remote villages. Hydrological disruptions exacerbated flooding … River burst their banks, inundating towns and villages, with flash floods washing away homes and livestock … Mount Mungalo. The landslide obliterated six villages, including Yambali and Kaokalam, resulting in …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 3 January 2025
nationwide? We study this by examining community targeting in both a high-stakes experiment, in which villages determined who would receive the Indonesian conditional cash transfer program – worth almost USD … as if they had used a fully up-to-date proxy means test. In both scale-ups, we also find that the villages gave additional weight to locally-valued characteristics beyond pure consumption, such as widowhood …
ACAPS · 3 January 2025 English
Blue Nile, South Kordofan, and West Kordofan states The conflict in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on one side and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and supporting militia …
Insecurity Insight 31/07/2023). advancing into villages (ACLED 16/09/2024). Clashes between the SAF and … targeting the ethnic Nuba communities in nearby villages (ACLED 15/03/2024). In April, armed (Phase 3) … allied with the RSF carried out brutal attacks on villages in Al Abbasiya, South Kordofan, famine in areas …
RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 2 January 2025 English
The Base seeks the violent replacement of the US government with “a white ethno- state” and is banned in other Western countries, but the EU ban in 2024 was the …
to bring displaced Tausugs back to their home villages. The Balik Barangay campaign has allowed the AFP … and 2) to squeeze the ASG out of the occupied villages. Despite the animosity between the locals and … military, assurances to bring them back to their villages paved the path towards cooperation. The locals … back to their home villages. In turn, displaced ASG forces fled out of the villages and into the mountains … military has begun employing troops drawn from local villages, who possess “better knowledge about the territory …
World Bank Group · 2 January 2025 English
This paper uses a rich set of geo-coded administrative and remotely sensed data on more than 1 million agricultural land transactions in Ukraine to explore how informality, size, and recent …
than individuals and on average lease land in 12 villages, consistent with studies showing that such entities … the notion that such land is located closer to villages’ settled area, making it more suitable for non-agricultural … that new leases were recorded in about 10,889 villages in Ukraine Of nearly 340,000 leases conducted … between 20% and 24% of cultivated land in the villages where transactions were recorded.17 Tenants who … land >50% 0.177 0.132 0.367 No. of villages tenant operates in 11.97 11.07 10.56 …