A new project targeting 57,000 of Burkina Faso’s most vulnerable smallholder farmer households is to be be launched in Ouagadougou, and will help toward improving food security and incomes in the Boucle du Mouhoun, Cascades and Hauts Bassins Regions.
Councils could generate £320 billion for the country’s economy over the next 50 years if they were able to build a “new generation” of high-quality council housing, says the Local Government Association.
The United Nations food relief agency has urged Governments in West Africa to spend more money on school meal programmes as these investments not only contribute to a better future for children but also create local jobs around agriculture.
The UK jobs market continues to perform strongly but it is failing to filter through into wages as the pay squeeze continues, says the Resolution Foundation, responding to the latest labour market figures.
Driving up employment, wages and skills for people in all six boroughs in the Liverpool City Region must be the number one priority for the new metro mayor elected in May, according to the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has launched the Trident and jobs report which sets out the employment implications of cancelling Trident replacement.
Inner London is the only area of the country where the rate of job starts is higher than before the recession, according to a new TUC report published today.