Sentences with phrase «population without access»

Despite this, there is still a large percentage of the population without access to the legal services they need.

This analytical report on innovative sanitation financing recognizes the challenge facing the region, to halve the proportion of the population without access to sanitation by 2015.

Until then, we will continue to see a substantial population without access to basic shelter.

Myanmar has one of the lowest electrification rates in Asia, with more than 60 % of the population without access to a modern form of electricity, denying people the ability to work, weakening health and safety, education, and limiting the opportunity to rise out of poverty.

Across the 20 countries with the largest clean cooking access gaps representing 84 percent of the global population without access, annual finance committed averaged just $ 32 million, compared to the estimated annual investment need of at least $ 4.4 billion.

Significant reductions in the population without access to clean fuels and stoves for cooking come from countries with dedicated policy initiatives, in particular China, India and Indonesia.

It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.

SDGs are being developed to extend public health goals that were not achieved by the original Millennium Development Goals set by the UN in 2000, including cutting the proportion of the global population without access to safe sanitation in half by 2015.

Not exact matches

There are still many countries in Africa where infrastructure and development is limited to the capital and a few urban centres, while the rest of the population lives in squalor without adequate access to essential social services.

The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering against its objective, with criticism largely levelled at Target 7.C, which aimed to «halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation».

«This approach should facilitate outpatient blood collection for disease screening and monitoring, particularly for underserved populations, and also serve needs of researchers and clinicians without access to centralized testing facilities.

Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and access to food sources and trade; without human populations near natural bodies of water, there would be no concern for floods.

With the lower - performing population mixed in among high - achievers (but without the tutors and other resources wealthier children have access to), the DOE's continued failure becomes much easier to hide.

«Any agenda aimed at improving college access and success for Black undergraduate men — one of the most underrepresented populations in U.S. higher education — would be incomplete without the participation of policymakers at all levels,» says Harper.

This raises continuing equity issues for those students without ready access (currently estimated to be about 15 % of the teenage population).

If we agree that we require an educated, technically skilled population, then we have to find a way to provide access to higher education without penalizing the most at - risk segments of our society.

And of course there's the reality that explosive population growth in certain places, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, could be blunted without a single draconian measure, many experts say, simply by providing access to family planning for millions of women who already want it, but can't get it — whether or not someone gets a carbon credit in the process.

Kheterpal says on the Kickstarter page, «In places like Kenya, where 75 % of the population live without access to electricity, having the ability to read at night or charge up a mobile phone gives people the chance of a better education and also access to services like the revolutionary mobile phone banking system, M - PESA.»

The first is an almost exclusive focus on basic household electricity access, often in remote areas, without attendant attention to urbanizing populations, industrializing economies, etc..

A growing community of energy access entrepreneurs are trying to bring off - grid products to market in Tanzania, India and other countries with large populations without electricity.

And with large segments of the developing world without access to modern forms of energy, Mr. Annan says that meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population living on less than $ 1 a day would depend on providing these people with access to modern energy services for their basic needs and for income generation.

The International Energy Agency estimates that more than 1.2 billion people, or 14 percent of the world's population, lack access to electricity, and twice that many, 2.6 billion, live without clean cooking facilities.

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

In Papua, the location and relatively low population density of villages without access makes them prime candidates for mini - and off - grid technologies, powered mostly by renewables - based generation (predominantly solar and small - scale hydropower).

Based on a detailed country - by - country database updated for this Outlook, we estimate that in 2008 the number of people without access to electricity was 1.5 billion or 22 % of the world's population.

In the arid plains of Kenya, however, the resource has long been in short supply as nearly half the population is without reliable access to clean water.

One of the key talking points of the rally was that Bangladesh wants solar power not coal power as it attempts to bring electricity to the 70 % of its population which currently lives without regular access to electric power.

With the impending end of the CAP program are we, as a society, comfortable with one - fifth of the population being unable to access government publications without some degree of difficulty?

But as we're focusing more on the legal - access plight of moderate / middle - income folks, are we going to, without realizing, expand the «justice gap's» width and effectively conflate the low - and middle - income populations?

Once detained, detain the individual in a facility separate from general population and allow access to family members and legal counsel without the need for a prior appointment;

There is a huge amount going on in the Access to Justice world, which lacks the resources to meet the needs of its service population without effective use of technology.

«Offering limited - scope retainers to support clients through mediation has the potential to contribute a great deal to access to family justice, by serving a portion of the population who might otherwise go without legal counsel,» she writes.

Put simply, says Randall Ellis, senior director of government relations for the well - respected Houston FQHC Legacy Community Health Services, it takes the entire spectrum of providers, including Planned Parenthood, to meet the needs of the growing population of low - income people without access to reproductive and other basic health care services.

«The people most likely to experience reduced access to care would probably reside in areas without other health care clinics or medical practitioners who serve low - income populations.

Put simply, it takes the entire spectrum of providers, including Planned Parenthood, to meet the needs of the growing population of low - income people without access to reproductive and other basic health care services.

Sub-Saharan Africa has 13 % of the world's population, but a whopping 48 % of the global population is without access to electricity.