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Uganda: Poverty Rate in Rural Subcounties with Safe Drinking Water Coverage Below 20 Percent

October 6, 2009

Note: Seven subcounties in Kaabong District, all with safe drinking water coverage below 20 percent, are not shown in this map because reliable poverty estimates were not available for 2005.

Uganda: Rural Subcounties with Safe Drinking Water Coverage Below 60 Percent, 2008

October 6, 2009

This map highlights the rural subcounties with safe drinking water coverage rates below 60 percent.

Uganda: Proportion of Rural Subcounty Population with Safe Drinking Water Coverage, 2008

October 6, 2009

This map shows the proportion of the rural subcounty population with safe drinking water coverage.

Uganda: Poverty Density by Rural Subcountry: Number of People Below the Poverty Line Per Sq. Km, 2005

October 6, 2009

This map shows poverty density (defined as the number of poor persons per square kilometer) for rural subcounties.

Mapping a Healthier Future: How Spatial Analysis Can Guide Pro-Poor Water and Sanitation Planning in Uganda

Uganda Ministry of Health, Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, International Livestock Research Institute, World Resources Institute

October, 2009

This report presents maps and analyses designed to inform the policies surrounding poverty reduction efforts in Uganda and to help reach the 2015 national targets on safe drinking water and improved sanitation.

Stopping the Resource Wars in Africa

By Sarah McHaney and Peter Veit on August 10, 2009

Two upcoming Senate bills could have a big impact on the Democratic Republic of Congo, by exposing how its 10-year conflict is being funded.

Equity, Poverty, and the Environment

Equity, Poverty and the Environment (EPE) works to reduce poverty and promote sound management of environmental resources by ensuring equitable access to ecosystem goods and services, and fair distribution of natural resource benefits.

Poor in Senegal Denied Benefits of Forest Resources

By Jesse Ribot on March 17, 2008

In many developing countries, forestry policies systematically exclude the poor from the wealth of the forests around them. Senegal provides an interesting example of how even good policies can fail to deliver the benefits they are intended to provide.

Video - Foresters Collude with Merchants: Coercing the Mayor to Cut the Forest

By Jesse Ribot on February 12, 2008
Location: Senegal

These films show how Senegal’s Forestry service, forest merchants, and other government agents are blocking local governments from playing their legal role in forest management and use.

Immigration Linked to Degraded Ecosystem

By Karen Bennett on January 17, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Border security is not typically recognized as being tied to environmental changes, but in this recent article by The New York Times, the links are clear. It details how declining fish catches in northwest Africa are fueling immigration to Europe.

Framing Climate Change Risk in Portfolio Management

May, 2005

Policies to regulate greenhouse gases are being developed and implemented in major markets around the world. Because these new policies bring costs as well as opportunities, prudent investors will factor climate change risk into investment decisions.

World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, voice, and power

United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, World Resources Institute

July, 2003

This edition focuses on the importance of good environmental governance by exploring how citizens, government managers, and business owners can foster better environmental decisions that meet the needs of people and ecosystems with equity and balance.

A Watershed in Global Governance? An independent assessment of the World Commission on Dams

Navroz K. Dubash, Mairi Dupar, Smitu Kothari, Tundu Lissu

November, 2001

Analyses the World Commission on Dams (WCD) as a model for global public policymaking on contentious issues of environment, development and justice. Traces the WCD’s roots in the history of global commissions and civil society organizing.

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