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Gender mainstreaming in the work of the World Bank Gender mainstreaming in the work of the World Bank - identifying the potentials and challenges Presentation at a panel organized by the World Bank as a side-event during the 46th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 4-15 March 2002 by Carolyn Hannan Director, Division for the Advancement of Women United Nations

Guidance - Regional Policy The European Commission has suggested a more results – oriented approach for EU cohesion funding in its legislative proposals for 2014 - 2020. Evaluating EU cohesion policy Guidance Documents for the 2014 – 2020 funding period Impact evaluation centre International Programs Data International Data Base (IDB) Find demographic indicators, population pyramids, and source information for countries and areas of the world with a population of 5,000 or more. World Population Summary Find the latest information on the World Population trends. Country Rankings Find historical and up-to-date Country Rankings based on the population size. Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: অমর্ত্য সেন; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. He is currently the Thomas W.

Committee and Expert Group on the EMFF - Fisheries European Commission Fisheries Accessibility tools Go to content Service tools Indicators This page in: Indicators Agriculture & Rural Development Aid Effectiveness Social choice theory Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some sense.[1] A non-theoretical example of a collective decision is enacting a law or set of laws under a constitution. Social choice theory dates from Condorcet's formulation of the voting paradox. Kenneth Arrow's Social Choice and Individual Values (1951) and Arrow's impossibility theorem in it are generally acknowledged as the basis of the modern social choice theory.[1]

Involuntary Resettlement Whereas 541 million people were affected (injured, homeless, displaced, evacuated or requiring immediate assistance) by natural disasters during 1970-1979, an estimated 2.3 billion will be affected by the end of this decade. Involuntary displacement occurs when the decision of moving is made and imposed by an external agent and when there is no possibility to stay. Involuntary displacement can be caused by environmental degradation, natural disasters, conflicts or development projects. It is associated with loss of housing, shelter, income, land, livelihoods, assets, access to resources and services, among others. Displacement affects not only those physically displaced but also the resident population (people who are not directly affected and thus do not move but feel the impact of losing their neighbors and resources) as well as the host population (those who receive displaced persons and could be positively or adversely affected by this situation).

20 Differences between Monitoring and Evaluation - Public Health Notes Monitoring and evaluation are important management tools that are necessary to track the progress and facilitate decision making for present and future interventions. However, there are lots of differences between them. Some major differences between monitoring and evaluation are listed below: References