Migrant workers still feel unable truly to integrate into cities, because their social safety net remains anchored to their rural origins.

With the increase in population, a shift away from the rural communities toward urban centres, this important cultural safety net is slowly diminishing.

The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the Twenty First Century (REN21) estimates that there are tens of millions of rural households served by renewable energy around the globe.

The use of labour intensive methods was helping to create jobs in rural areas while providing the improved road network that was required for economic growth.

Among these conjunctures or factors war was one of the most important ones, associated to lack of a strong network of social and economic infrastructures, particularly in the rural areas.

Their access to economic and legal information is limited because of the absence of relevant education, the absence in rural areas of a broad network of legal information centres, etc.

Uganda, with the support of Norway, launched an electrification programme in rural areas, where only 3 per cent of the population has access to stable electricity supplies.

(Rural Women)

BOSCO's long term vision is to provide innovative information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to foster social and economic development and peace building in rural communities of northern Uganda using a collaborative, web based approach.

There is virtually no information on Internet access by enterprises disaggregated by urban or rural areas, although it is likely that results for some countries have a strong bias towards urban areas.

Ms. Tan asked what the Government intended to do to expedite access in the rural areas to the supply of potable water, the sewerage system and public transport, and within what time frame.

Rural and agricultural development

Rural Women and Poverty

Integrating gender principles in all of the MDGs.

The Rural Health Project.

(c) Strengthening of domestic rural agricultural economies by actively contributing to integrated rural development planning.

This programme provides effective social safety net to 1.25 million poorest of the poor households, designed to meet basic nutritional requirements of the poor, covers urban as well as rural areas, recognises women as far as possible as the beneficiary in the household.

Rural women play a critical role in agricultural production and in the rural economies of developing countries.

Network

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.

Rural urban linkages

Article 14 Rural women

Article 14 Rural Women

Programme for the Development of Rural Areas

Unemployment in rural areas

Rural development and agriculture

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

Chapter 12 Rural women

The project's legal advisers, in collaboration with local authorities, conducted training for personnel in a network of 47 legal clinics which cover both rural and urban areas, with 30 per cent of the heads of local authorities continuing to cooperate with the legal advisers.

They have set up a referral network with the Somaliland Human Rights Network.

Besides membership in rural women's organisations, rural women also belong to other national women's organisations.

Suitably adapted, such mechanisms could also dramatically expand off grid renewable energy solutions across rural economies, providing reliable energy to billions of people and triggering a new green revolution in the countryside.

Intranet

Network cloud

Web cluster

Cisco Network

Ethernet bus

Internet network

Internet

The virtual organization exists within a network of alliances, using the Internet.

Rural Skills Training Programme

Food safety in rural areas Agro processing Information exchange soils, climate and conservation agriculture.

Associated Country Women of the World

Viable and integrated development of 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.