The study entitled rural youth empowerment: a panacea to rural-urban drift in Ethiope-East Area of Delta State, Nigerians was carried out to x-ray the available economic opportunities for empowering rural youths to curb migration to the city. A purposive random sampling technique was used to select youths from communities with high number of youths who often travel. A sample size of 150 youths ...

Purpose of the study: The purpose study was to analyze socio-cultural constraints that affect different dimensions women empowerment in rural areas Punjab province. Political participation and self-esteem were taken as dominant characteristics among lots variables collectively define empowerment.
 Methodology: A mixed-method approach used empowerment. multi-stage random sampling technique ...

This article provides an example of a culturally responsive, community-based project for addressing social determinants of health in rural American Indian (AI) communities through: 1) empowering youth and community voices to set directions for HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy prevention and education efforts; 2) using Photovoice to promote healthy relationships amo...

There is an enormous stress on livelihood analysis of rural communities and their economies. Village common property resources (CPRs) have played a substantial economic role for the sustenance in rural areas of the drylands. The CPRs of drylands of western Rajasthan shows a varied range of habitats due to strong functional disparities in topographic, geomorphological, climatic, edaphic and phys...

formation and expantion of informal settlements are concequences of urban growth and zanjan isn't an exception to this regulation. najaf abad informal settlement has been formed and expanded on the bases of uncontrolled and exceeding rural immigration. this study aims to investigate role of social security in empowerment as well as elimination district problems of zanjan najaf abad. in the empo...

1- introduction despite a lot of plans for rural and remote areas in recent years, many of iran’s local community's health and medical needs are not enough supplied, yet. residents of rural and remote community’s situations show that health care services are weaker than urban centers and health and medical indexes in indigenous communities remain unacceptable. many rural and remote communities ...

For scores of years now, several microfinance organizations, non governmental organizations and other welfare organizations have, with a view to aiding the progress of communities rooted in poverty have been focusing on creating microentrepreneurs, besides taking several other measures. In recent times, business corporations have joined forces to combat poverty by taking up microenterprise deve...

introduction census data of iran show that about 68.5% (1956) to 29% (2011) of rural population has decreased over the past half-century. rural population has rapidly declined over the last half century and is influenced by several factors, one of which is rural- urban migration. although the percentage of rural to urban migration (20%) and urban to rural one (17%) from 1996 to 2006 show less d...