Ray Witlin News Today

People’s ability to afford electricity to light their homes or power their domestic appliances, pay for gas to cook or heat their homes, or buy fuel to run their businesses has been a concern for many poor and vulnerable households. In recent years, even middle-income households in developing and developed countries alike started feeling such pressures.

Without gender data, policy makers and other stakeholders cannot make fully informed decisions. The Strengthening Gender Statistics (SGS) project provides technical support to 12 partner countries to generate policy-relevant sex-disaggregated data.

Likely the world’s most popular garment, jeans use huge amounts of water to grow irrigated cotton, a major factor in destroying the Aral Sea. Today, the industry, though making sustainability pledges, still does much harm.