Videos

BUSICON Nigeria Limited and its partners are one of the world’s leading organizations in the Library Automation, Integrated Document Management Solutions, High Storage Equipment and Production Scanner Supply & Maintenance.

Peter Munga from the Equity Banking Group talks about its partnership with the Commonwealth Youth Programme and the importance of tackling poverty and helping microfinance initiatives by providing loans and training.

Working to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Pakistan highlights the complexities of empowering the citizen-consumer by implementing reform in the public obstetric and gynaecological health care sector of Pakistan. Every year approximately 30,000 women die from pregnancy related complications and a further 375,000 suffer severe post-natal injuries. These figures place Pakistans maternal death and morbidity rates as the highest in South Asia.

Investment in the infrastructure of India's water supply is desperately needed due to the low standard of water that is supplied to the city. In Mumbai drinking water is a luxury.

Rwanda is one of Africa's most ambitious nations that sees ICT as an enabling tool that is pivitol for development.

Having recently joined the Commonwealth, Rwanda hopes this will benefit the countries development. Rwanda has an optimistic future and is fighting poverty, embracing technology and investing in services. It was voted the top business reformer of 2009.

The video looks at the role of land ownership, subsistence farming, the caste system, climate, globalisation, lack of access to basic services, the plight of women. It shows the impacts of this poverty and what life is like in a poor rural area and goes on to look at various ways this poverty can be alleviated, including: providing better access to education, health, improving farming methods, micro-credit schemes aimed at women and care of the orphan Elders left behind as the young migrate to the city.

Short film focusing on 'Financing Gender' the focus of the 2010 Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting