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

Renewable energy

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


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