Income generating projects, Jordan

Income generating projects (Canada)

Income generation revolving loans (Japan)

Income generating activities are also required to provide opportunities for refugees, returnees and displaced persons to become self sufficient.

Other income from revenue producing activities and interest 740.8 795.0

Although considered revenue producing activities, they are not necessarily profit making, nor are they established for that purpose.

Women are also involved in activities that generate incomes through the self employment.

(v) Miscellaneous income and income derived from revenue producing activities.

Assisting women in income generating activities was pursued in Bangladesh and in Uganda.

Halting land degradation and promoting environmental rehabilitation should, to the extent possible, involve vulnerable and marginalized groups by creating opportunities for alternative income generating activities.

Income generation projects to support urban poor communities were developed for the Philippines and Tanzania.

Men usually control allocation of land and the income generating activities of the family.

15.7 of women participants in the labour force are those who are engaged in home based earning activities.

31. Living conditions in the refugee camps are at a minimal level and there are no prospects for the introduction of income generating activities.

The project apos s objectives include improving settlement planning and upgrading policies and procedures for the provision of improved basic urban services to the urban poor, and developing income generating and income support activities.

The Government had created additional opportunities for the gainful employment of females, through promoting cottage industries, food for work programmes and, where possible, redistributing productive resources.

43. In 1993, income generation projects were implemented for about 100 women, most of whom are heads of household.

These official camps, three of which are located on the periphery of the city, are characterized by poor water, sanitation and health facilities, very high malnutrition rates and little prospect of employment or income generating activities.

In Puntland and Mogadishu, projects in education, health and income generation amounting to 813,000 were completed.

Despite all the problems, women in almost every ethnic group in the Niger do carry out income generating activities.

Efforts are being made by the institutes to develop income generating activities but so far progress has been uneven.

The main activities to be undertaken are the setting up of income generating projects, assistance to persons at risk and the financing of scholarships.

It was indicated that programmes assisting women to undertake small scale income generating projects had led to an improvement of the situation of women together with that of their families.

The country's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) incorporated the gender perspective, and women were able to finance income generating projects using a variety of microcredit facilities.

29. Assistance will be provided to a small group of Burundian refugees, mainly urban refugees, in the form of counselling and financial assistance to begin carrying out income generating activities.

(d) Ensuring that new employment opportunities are designed to meet both need for income and performance of family responsibilities

Institutes that have not already done so should consider the possibility of offering income generating activities to their users in order to strengthen their financial viability.

13. Assistance aimed directly at job creation, either through income generation activities or crop production, will amount to some 75 per cent of the total appropriation for local settlement, with the balance allocated to education and infrastructural improvements.

To prevent the increase of prostitution linked to the urban migration of young women, efforts were being made to raise the living standards in rural areas and to encourage young women there to undertake income generating activities.

micro businesses, marketing, livestock raising

UNMIL has, for instance, conducted a mapping exercise of women's organizations involved in small income generating businesses to support their networking.

The initial phase of the project aimed at supporting 100 female headed households in Hebron municipality through the provision of shelter and opportunities to engage in income generating activities.

If the income derived from this kind of activity continues to be modest, ILPES will design other income generating activities, relying primarily on its advisory services.

A considerable number of children, especially in rural areas, are now engaged in domestic and remunerative activities (tending livestock, etc.).

26. Following the successes in Ghana, UNIFEM funded income generating activities in Côte d apos Ivoire and Malawi, where over 250,000 refugees from Mozambique remain.

Other revenue producing activities

(i) Public education programs that must be linked with income generating activities that eliminate the need to rely on scrap metal collection as the means to meet basic survival needs

Promoting women's activities by reducing workloads and income generating activities to enable mothers to relieve their daughters of household chores and petty trading duties so that they can concentrate on their studies.

Some of these programmes also aim at developing income generating activities among the schools and families to ensure stable local funding of and a supply of food for the feeding programmes.

It aims at enhancing the productivity of smallholders through environmentally sound methods and at creating income generating activities for those without or with little land, with special attention to the needs of women.

The quality of instruction in the centres has been improved through the preparation of programme user guides and training modules for instructors and students in the three NAFA centres, dealing with income generating activities.

UNIFEM is working together with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Government of Malawi and voluntary organizations to develop a pilot project to address the problem of limited opportunities for income generation in the Nsanje district.

41. In the United Arab Emirates, UNIFEM sent a mission to assist the Abu Dhabi apos s Women apos s Association with a review of their activities, with the aim of setting up an income generating programme for women living in poverty.

Ecuador had received credits from UNHCR to meet the social, educational and health care needs of the refugees in particular and to create income generating activities through local assistance projects intended to promote social integration.

UNESCO coordinates a project on strengthening the economic capacity of women for primary education in rural areas in Burkina Faso, covering preschool activities, literacy courses for women and income generating activities.