A tool used to perform gender analysis in order to understand the daily roles performed by women in relation to those by men and those performed by girls in relation to those by boys and how this promotes or retards development.
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Process of gathering and measuring information on different variables of interest in a systematic way that enables one to answer stated research questions, test hypotheses, and evaluate outcomes.
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Electronic documentation and storage of data in a central place.
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Obligation or responsibility to uphold the privacy of data/information provided by the respondent to avoid unauthorised disclosure.
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Systematic distribution of information or knowledge through various mechanisms to potential beneficiaries or users.
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Any process that converts data into information.
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are individual units, enterprises or organisations that generate data for either personal, administrative, statistical or development purposes. Data producers include: the National Statistics Office, Statistics units in Government MDAs, private sector organisations, NGOs, Civil Society Organisations and Training and Research
Institutions.
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are suppliers of the data produced. They include: MDAs, establishments or institutions in the public and private sectors, households, and various community groups.
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are recipients of the data produced. They include: Government MDAs, Regulatory Bodies, Private Sector Companies, NGOs, Researchers and Development Partners, International and Regional Organisations, Service institutions and the media.
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This involves minimum transfer of power. It amounts to shifting workload from the centre.
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Involves opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal
development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organise and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity
and treatment for all women and men.
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The transfer of legal, administrative and political authority to make decisions and manage public functions, from the central government to local governments. The major forms of decentralization include de-concentration, devolution, delegation and privatization.
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Measures the degree of inequality among the poor. The DPI measures the incidence of poverty, and degree of inequality among the poor using an aversion parameter which determines the proportionate decrease from the poverty line.
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A household where the husband is not present, and the wife becomes the main decision maker in his absence
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The collection of basic demographic, economic and social data for all persons who will have spent a specified night in the area. The enumeration of people is done at household or institution level (like a dormitory in a school, a ward in a hospital, a cell in a prison, etc.).
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The removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non- forest use.
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The extent of Local Government total budget resources on which they have discretion to allocate to different expenditure obligations.
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A household where the main decision maker is a female who has never been married is divorced or widowed.
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The collection of basic demographic, economic and social data for all the people who normally reside in the country. It excludes visitors from other countries, and includes residents that would be outside the country at the time of enumeration.
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The statistical study of human populations and sub-populations. It encompasses the study of size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, age and death.
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one whose values are influenced by changes in the values of other variables.
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The wear and tear of an asset during the reference period. It is also referred to as the gradual decrease in value of assets.
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The process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations (e.g. drought) as well as direct and indirect human activities, for example, overgrazing and intensive agricultural cultivation.
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A fall in price of a local currency in terms of other currencies. Less foreign currency can be bought with a unit of the currency that has been devalued. Devaluation makes exports cheaper abroad in terms of foreign currency and the imports dearer at home in terms of home currency hence it tends to improve the balance of trade.
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Involves a series of well-planned activities, which are intended to change/improve the well-being of an area.
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Documentation by a Government planning agency about the current national economic conditions, proposed public expenditures, likely developments in the private sector, a Macroeconomic projection of the economy, and a review of government policies.
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Documentation by a Government planning agency about the current national economic conditions, proposed public expenditures, likely developments in the private sector, a Macroeconomic projection of the economy, and a review of government policies
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The process of setting goals and objectives, mobilisation and judicious allocation of resources with the aim of achieving sustainable socio-economic development and poverty eradication in an area.
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A set of interrelated with specific objectives to address the identified needs and problems. Projects normally have a limited life span of between 3-5 years.
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The transfer of resources, tasks and decision making power to lower-level authorities which are largely or wholly independent of the central government, and democratically elected people.
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