NREGA has been devised as a public work programme and is focussed around a rights-based approach to development. Key focus is on providing income security to rural households through guaranteed wage employment; reduce/check distress migration from the rural to urban areas and create durable community assets (in the rural areas) to trigger an overall development of around six lakh Indian villages.
This European Synthesis Report explores skills development in response to the greening agenda at national, regional and local levels in six Member States: Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Spain, France and the UK.
It addresses the environmental challenges and skill requirements alongside anticipating such requirements in workforces and amid the job market.
A study on the skill requirements needed to relaize the potential of green jobs in Mauritius in order to make the transition to a greener economy in Mauritius. This study intends to analyze the creation of decent jobs as a consequence of the needed environmental and energy policies. Thus the growing importance of sustainability and the shift to a low-carbon economy requires deeper analysis into the human resources and skill requirements needed to accompany this transition.
Green jobs represent a new kind of employment which is not yet caught in the history and inertia of social inequity. This could represent an opportunity for a more equitable sharing of revenue between capital and labour. This opportunity may also help women into career path’s that will allow them to become more financially secure and support themselves and their families.
The recent study undertaken falls into this type of combined exercise, demanding a change towards a sustainable production model, and at the same time shedding light on what kind of jobs should be defended and which should not, and which policies to promote or reject. The paper sets the challenge of analysing and putting forward proposals for discussion from working women, advancing towards a gender perspective, as other studies on green jobs have included little or no reference to women workers.
Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges of the twenty-first century for developed and developing countries alike. Though developing countries have contributed the least to the causes of climate change, they stand to suffer more due to their vulnerability to extreme environmental events. Women and men working in sectors most dependent on the weather, such as agriculture and tourism, are likely to be most affected. Climate change, moreover, is not gender neutral. Women are increasingly being seen as more vulnerable than men to the effects of climate change because they represent the majority of the world’s poor and are proportionally more dependent on threatened natural resources. What is more, women tend to play a greater role than men in natural resource management – farming, planting, protecting and caring for seedlings and small trees – and in ensuring nutrition and as care providers for their families. Yet, in the long run, no one – women or men, rich or poor – can remain immune from the challenges and dangers brought on by climate change.