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2013 • 256 pages

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Aid, NGOs and the Realities ofWomen's LivesA perfect stormEdited by Tina Wallace and Fenella Porter

Aid organizations have their origins in a desire to help the world’s poorest andmost marginalized people – but are they reaching these people? Factors arecoming together that put pressure on NGOs working in development: theeconomic crisis, the growing conditionality of aid, and increased competitionfor funding between NGOs. This creates ‘a perfect storm’ driven by a newlanguage of aid, policies and procedures leaving poor women behind. Thisbook explores how international NGOs are navigating these rapid changes thatchallenge their role and legitimacy, values, and overall purpose. The writerssee a crisis for NGOs as they are pulled further from those they claim to workwith; they also explore alternative ways of conceptualizing development, andof bringing about improvements for the most marginalized and increasingly‘unheard’ women.

This book is essential reading for development practitioners and those workingon women’s rights, as well as NGO staff , researchers, and students ofdevelopment studies.

‘This is a wake-up call to those in the development industry who are driving the current obsession with results.’ProfessorAndrea Cornwall, Department of Anthropology, Sussex University

‘Anyone with a personal or professional interest in development, let alone gender and development, should read thisimportant book.’Sylvia Chant, Professor of Development Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science

‘This book is far more than a critique. The authors also offer positive examples from around the world about howconversations, evidence and relationships can be approached completely differently.’Emma Crewe, Visiting Reader andResearch Associate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London

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The Complete Manual of Small-scaleFood ProcessingPeter Fellows

Small-scale food processing is important worldwide. For individual processors,it is highly accessible as a start-up business, especially for women; farmers andfishermen can readily diversify into processing to increase their incomes; andhigh added-value enables processors to earn an income from relatively smallscales of production. For policy makers: small-scale food processing can createemployment, increase food security and improve nutritional standards.Writtenby an experienced food technologist and author, this book providescomprehensive technical and business information on all aspects of small-scalefood processing in a single text. From how to assess the market, to primary andsecondary processing, packaging, managing food safety, and finances, the bookcovers all the technical details and up-to-date information needed by a foodprocessor. It is written in simple language suitable for the non-specialist andalso for people who have English as a second language.

‘This book is truly a “complete manual of small-scale food processing”. What makes it unique is that it is based on severalcase studies from all around the world. It has worked for many such small-scale food processors and will continue towork for others. This is a MUST read.

Peggy Oti-Boateng (PhD), Senior Programme Specialist for Science and Technology, UNESCO Office in Nairobi, KENYA.




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2013 • 168 pages


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Farmers' ChoiceEvaluating an approach to agricultural technology adoption inTanzaniaEdited by Helene Bie Lilleør and Ulrik Lund-Sørensen

Food security is an urgent international priority. However, agriculturalextension methods that relied on imposing centrally-developed technologicalsolutions have been ineffective, since small farmers in developing countriesoften cultivate marginal lands, working under constraints for which thesesolutions were not designed. Since 2006, a flexible agricultural extensionapproach has been implemented in Northern Tanzania, inspired by the FarmerField School approach, and offering farmers a ‘basket of technology options’from which farmers can pick and choose what serves their needs and resourcesbest. The focus is on extending improved low-cost farming techniquesadaptable to local conditions in a pragmatic and flexible process. Theinterventions are locally known as ‘RIPAT’,have received financial andtechnical support from the Rockwool Foundation. Farmers’ Choice outlines theRIPAT intervention, and examines how effective it has been.This evaluationshould be read by all those interested in improving the food security andincomes of poor farmers in the Global South: agricultural scientists,anthropologists, staff of NGOs, researchers and students of developmentstudies.

‘An innovative contribution for evaluating one of the most critical and strategic issues for smallholder agriculturaldevelopment in Tanzania.’Professor Kjell Havnevik, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala

‘A paradigm example of how comprehensive use of methods enriches our understanding of small-scale farmers andenables us to see how they can generate change and secure food production.’Associate Professor Liv Haram, Departmentof Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology




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Poor People's Energy Outlook 2013Energy for Earning a LivingPractical Action

The political profile of energy access is unprecedented. Globally, the UNSustainable Energy for All Initiative has ensured that the issue is nowrecognized as central to international development dialogue. In manycountries, however, poor people’s energy access is yet to be given sufficientpriority and fails to be acknowledged as a key enabler in improving health,education, and other community services.As a contribution to creating a new energy narrative, the Poor people’s energyoutlook (PPEO) highlights what matters to poor people. It prioritizes theirperspectives and those of practitioners working with them. PPEO 2013, thethird in the series, focuses on delivering energy at community level,illustrating the difference that improved energy services and supply can maketo health, education and infrastructure, including access to water, and streetlighting. The report makes the case for energy for community services;encouraging greater investment in, and integration of, this often neglectedarea of energy provision.The report returns to the concept of Total Energy Access, a multi-tier approachto measuring energy supply, and the Energy Access Ecosystem Index, a toolfor analysing policy, capacity and finance, and their potential for progress, atnational level. Both concepts, introduced through the PPEO series, offerinnovative and effective ways of refocusing debate, and supporting thedelivery of energy services that poor people need, want and have a right to.First-hand perspectives of poor people living with limited or poor-qualityenergy services are central to this report, focusing specifically on fieldresearch from Bangladesh, Rwanda and Bolivia.The Poor people’s energy outlook 2013 will be of interest to anyone seekingto understand better the interaction between energy access and communityservices, both energy sector professionals and development practitionersalike.

‘The new PPEO report is extremely important, providing useful insights into the linkages between energy access andcommunity services – an area which has been largely overlooked.’Dr Marlis Kees, GIZ‘Life without energy is death. This book is a “must read” for all development partners, individuals, governments, andNGOs that want a better and safer world.’Dr Sam Agbo, Head of Health and HIV, Save the Children‘Having been neglected for too long, energy access is finally where it belongs – at the centre of attention of thedevelopment community.’Michael Franz, EUEI-PDF Project Manager




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2013 • 224 pages


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Who Counts?The power of participatory statisticsEdited by Jeremy Holland

Local people can generate their own numbers – and the statistics that resultare powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Since the early 1990sthere has been a quiet tide of innovation in generating statistics usingparticipatory methods. Development practitioners are supporting andfacilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up tosector and national-level policy processes. Statistics are being generated inthe design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment ofdevelopment interventions.Through chapters describing policy, programmeand project research, Who Counts? provides impetus for a step change in theadoption and mainstreaming of participatory statistics within internationaldevelopment practice. The challenge laid down is to foster institutionalchange on the back of the methodological breakthroughs and philosophicalcommitment described in this book. The prize is a win–win outcome in whichstatistics are a part of an empowering process for local people and part of areal-time information flow for those aid agencies and governmentdepartments willing to generate statistics in new ways. Essential reading forresearchers and students of international development as well aspolicy-makers, managers and practitioners in development agencies.

‘This is a timely compilation of ground-breaking work which adds up to a powerful agenda for transformation. This bookshows how we can quantify the qualitative, build the active agency of excluded groups and generate participatorystatistics that have greater rigour and legitimacy than most conventional statistics.’ David Archer, Head of Programmes,ActionAid

‘This important collection shows how the process of organising to “count” can help people mobilise for action, as well asproducing reliable information at scale. Holland’s introduction is a great summary of the range of practice – taking onnew development such as ICTs and approaches to standardisation of data from participatory exercises at scale, as well asshowing the depth of experience that now exists in participatory statistics.’ Andrew Norton, Director of Research,Overseas Development Institute




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Performance ManagementA Handbook for small business banks and microfinanceinstitutionsPrinny Anderson

Performance Management equips staff at financial institutions across emergingeconomies with frameworks and tools to manage people effectively. Tosustain the business of financial institutions, leaders and managers must focuson ‘performance’. This means helping staff to maintain quality, efficiency,productivity, cost-effectiveness, and ethical business practices. It also meansmanaging people and the way they work so that they handle as manytransactions as they can, open as many deposit accounts as they can, andprocess as many high-quality loans and repayments as they can.

Performance Management covers all areas of performance management forbanking and microfinance. It discusses strategic and operational considerationsand setting up a performance management system. It includes frameworks andadvice on interviewing and creating job descriptions. Areas in sustainingperformance include training, coaching, incentives, performance evaluation,career development, promotion, and succession planning. Finally, it coverspositioning an institution for sustaining high-quality performance managementinstitution-wide.

Arising from years of experience in banks and microfinance institutionsthroughout developing economies, this book provides insights, approaches,and examples particularly relevant for professionals in these markets. It shouldbe read by staff of banks and microfinance institutions, as well as NGOs and aidagencies engaged in promoting microfinance.

‘This is a book for bank and finance professionals written by a professional who clearly understands the discipline ofperformance management and the environment of banking and finance. The book is pragmatic, focused, comprehensiveand eminently readable … a “must read” for leaders in this field.’Robert M. Fulmer, PhD, Vice-Chair, World Business Academy and co-author of The Leadership Advantage: How the BestCompanies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success

‘Performance Management is a straightforward and engaging book that equips HR professionals with the practical adviceand systemic insight to make performance management a strategic tool for achieving the business goals of the financialinstitution, and the human mission of giving women and men access to the financial services they need to move out ofpoverty.’Judy Rosenblum, past president and adviser to Duke Corporate Education

‘This handbook for banks and microfinance institutions provides tools to turn over mountains of hardship facing anyleader dealing with financial services in difficult-to-reach markets, to discover a goldmine of success on the other side.’Bold Magvan, Chief Executive Officer, TenGer Financial Group LLC




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Delivering Energy forDevelopment

Raffaella Bellanca, Ewan Bloomfield,Kavita Rai, Mattia Vianello, EmmaWilson and Annabel Yadoo

At the outset of 2012 – the UnitedNations’ International Year ofSustainable Energy for All – access tomodern energy services remains low ornon-existent for approximately **billion of the world’s population. Energypractitioners worldwide are facing thechallenge of delivering access tomodern energy services where povertyand lack of infrastructure makes it mostdifficult. Rising awareness aboutclimatic change and the notion of energysecurity for future generations are alsobeing channelled into the debate. Thisbook aims to provide an overview ofexisting energy delivery systems, as wellas a guide to practitioners on the keyissues integral to the success or failureof energy programmes in middle- andlow-income countries. The authorsconsider how markets develop, whichservices are pivotal in supporting theprocess, and what overarching factorsenable change to take place. The aim ofthe book is to provide practicalguidance on how to replicate and scaleup the successful delivery of energy tothe very poor and is expected to be ofuse for energy development policymakers and practitioners.

2013 • 128 pagesISBN 9781853397622 Paperback£15.95 • €23.95 • $31.95ISBN 9781853397615 Hardback£29.95 • €44.95 • $59.95

DharaviDocumenting Informalities

Edited by Jonatan Habib Engqvist andMaria Lantz

Redevelopment plans threaten thelivelihoods of hundreds of thousands ofpeople who live and work in Dharavi, acity within the city of Mumbai. InDharavi houses and workplaces havedeveloped over generations. Markets,alleys and the landscape itself werecreated as a result of actions and hardwork, through negotiations and mutualneeds. Memories of these struggles,stories and dreams all intertwine inDharavi. This chronicle twists theinformal society toward a formal one. Itaims to show the creative power of thegrassroots and encourages politiciansand other stakeholders to listen to thedemands and to provide forinfrastructure and services. This bookdispels the idea that a ‘slum’ can onlybe a location for despair. Dharavi:Documenting Informalities revealsthriving communities, innovativearchitecture and powerful grass rootspolitics. By moving beyond abstractconcepts such as globalization andpost-colonialism, Dharavi: DocumentingInformalities gives detailed, personalaccounts of the many ways in which weare all linked to Dharavi’s people andindustries. Essays by Saskia Sassen,Arjun Appadurai and Sheela Patelcomplement maps, photographs,drawings and interviews made by agroup of artists and architects from TheRoyal University College of Stockholm

2013 • 304 pagesISBN 9781853397103 Hardback£39.95 • €49.95 • $59.95

Disaster Risk Management andReconstruction in LatinAmerica

Barbara Montoro and Pedro Ferradas

Recent earthquakes have highlighted theimportance of good disaster planning.Adequate risk assessment and riskreduction strategies, and improvedresponse and reconstruction work havebenefited from the documentation ofpast disasters. This practical manualoffers an up-to-date resource coveringboth methodological and technicalaspects of disaster mitigation. Impactscan be significantly reduced byimproved disaster contingency andmitigation planning, involving adequaterisk assessment and the implementationof risk reduction strategies. It is basedon Latin American experiences ofdisaster response and planningprogrammes, and particularlyemphasises the importance ofcommunity-based participatoryprocesses. The experience of pastdisaster events, most notablyearthquakes and floods, is used to showhow local knowledge has been used todevelop community responses that bothhelp to raise awareness of dangers andalso help prepare for improved futuredisaster response and reconstruction.Previously published in Spanish, thisrevised manual contains many practicaldiagrams and illustrations of buildingreconstruction case studies followingearthquakes and is an importantresource for all involved inhumanitarian disaster response andplanning.

2013 • 128 pagesISBN 9781853396724 Paperback£19.95 • €29.95 • $39.95

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Food SovereigntyTowards democracy in localized foodsystems responding to a changingenvironment

Michael Windfuhr and Jennie Jonsén

Food Sovereignty is the policyframework for the governance of foodand agriculture and has emerged fromthe social movements of food providersas a countervailing approach at local,national and international levels. FoodSovereignty puts food providerscentre-stage and prioritises the humanright of consumers to nutritious foods,sourced as locally as possible, ratherthan internationally tradeablecommodities. It builds knowledge andskills that conserve and develop localfood production and rejects proprietarytechnologies that facilitate corporatecontrol. In this new edition, MichaelWindfuhr describes the development ofthe Food Sovereignty policy frameworkand shows how it addresses themultiple crises and rapidly changingenvironment for securing future foodsupplies. He builds on the outcomes ofthe Nyéléni 2007 Forum for FoodSovereignty and outlines the basicassumptions, providing a comparativeanalysis of the limitations of theconcept of food security, analyses howFood Sovereignty relates to the currentand prospective challenges for ruraldevelopment, food and agriculturalpolicies, and discusses possible policyconstraints to the adoption of the FoodSovereignty policy framework.


Frontiers in Participatory RuralAppraisal and ParticipatoryLearning and ActionPRA and PLA in Applied Research

Amitava Mukherjee

Community participation or people'sparticipation in the process ofdevelopment has entered into thedevelopment lexicon permanently. Newmethods, tools, and approaches(variously called Participatory Learningand Action, Participatory RuralAppraisal or its earlier incarnationRapid Rural Appraisal) to enlist people'sparticipation has been invented,improvised and developed bydevelopment practitioners all over theworld. This book is a unique exercise inexploration and synthesis,demonstrating and documenting theexperiments which have revealed thatthe participatory tools, methods andapproaches can be very efficiently usedin several fields of human exploration.Each chapter, dealing with these issues,describes both the process followed inthe application of participatory toolsand methods in the respective field andthe synthesis of the theory ofparticipation with practice as well. Thisbook will be an invaluable guide topractitioners, researchers, academicsand students of development economicsand poverty planning.


Hygiene EvaluationProceduresApproaches and Methods for AssessingWater- and Sanitation-Related HygienePractices

Edited by Astier M. Almedom, UrsulaBlumenthal and Lenore Manderson

This handbook provides practicalguidelines for evaluating water andsanitation related hygiene practices forthe purposes of project planning,monitoring or impact assessment. Themain focus, therefore, is on the practicalconcerns of field personnel working inwater supply, sanitation, and health /hygiene education projects. It is alsodesigned to make qualitative researchskills accessible to practitioners withlittle or no previous training in socialsciences and emphasizes how to gather,review, and interpret qualitativeinformation. The use of a variety ofsources and methods is advocated asthe best way to obtain complete andreliable information on the issues understudy.


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Barefoot Guide to Working withOrganisations and SocialChange

Edited by The Barefoot Collective

This is a practical, do-it-yourself guidefor leaders and facilitators wanting tohelp organizations to function and todevelop in more healthy, humane andeffective ways as they strive to maketheir contributions to a more humanesociety. The guide includes tried andtested concepts, approaches, storiesand activities. Its purpose is to helpstimulate and enrich the practice ofanyone supporting organizations andsocial movements in their challenges ofworking, learning, growing and changingto meet the needs of our complex world.Although it is aimed at leaders andfacilitators of civil societyorganizations, this manual will beuseful to anyone interested in fosteringhealthy human organization in anysphere of life. In this book the authorsoffer a perspective on why organizationsexist, the real roles they play, and on theimportance of supporting thesovereignty of local organizations andsocial movements for meaningful socialchange. The manual provides some toolsfor reading organizations, includinghow organizations tend to move throughvarious phases of development, how wemight facilitate change and thechallenges we face in implementing orsustaining change.


Rural Women in South Asia

Edited by Jaya Arunchalam and U.Kalpagam

This book highlights the commonalitiesand differences in rural women'sexperiences across the South Asiaregion. It argues that the low status andweak empowerment of rural women isdue to the structural conditions ofpoverty and inequality in the region, thesocial and cultural shaping of genderideologies, and the multiplepatriarchies and caste and classdominance through which poor womenexperience power relations. However, asense of optimism pervades as countryexperiences reflect the renewedconcerns and commitments about ruralwomen's empowerment in both statepolicy and the significant snowballingof social activism in the region. Theessays in the book reiterate andimportance of both poverty alleviation,providing decent work opportunities,investing in education and health, andinvolving women in decision makingand governance such that theirsubstantive empowerment is fostered byenhancing their capabilities,entitlements and choices.


Understanding OrganizationalSustainability through AfricanProverbsInsights for Leaders and Facilitators

Chiku Malunga

African cultural heritage, passed onfrom generation to generation has beenthe source of guidance for Africancommunities in times of peace,uncertainty, birth, life and death. In thisbook the power of traditional wisdomcontained in African proverbs isdirected at organizational developmentand change. The result is a fresh newperspective on organizationalmanagement with important lessons forleaders, consultants, volunteers andexpatriates working or preparing towork in Africa. Rooted in provenpractice, the book specificallyaddresses the needs of leaders andconsultants in African organizationsseeking to implement performanceimprovement and organizationalchange, and contains proverb-drivenassessment templates for use inworkshop situations.


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Value Chains in DevelopmentEmerging Theory and Practice

Edited by Linda Jones

Value chain development can identifyand address the sector-specificbottlenecks that hinder the developmentof an industry. Value Chains inDevelopment charts the rise of valuechain analysis from the sub-sectorapproach, through classic businessdevelopment services, and includes howto assess value chains, measurepotential competitiveness and facilitatemarket-based interventions. Selectedfrom among the best papers on thissubject in Enterprise Development andMicrofinance (formerly Small EnterpriseDevelopment journal), 14 papers takethe long view of a discipline that hasrecently become an essential tool foreconomic progress in developingcountries. In her introductory chapterthe editor discusses what we can learnfrom past trends and more recentdevelopment. These critical readings areessential background for students andpractitioners of the market-basedapproaches to development.


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2013 • 224 pages


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Achieving Water SecurityLessons from research in water supply, sanitation, and hygiene inEthiopiaEdited by Roger Calow, Eva Ludi and Josephine Tucker

Achieving water security remains an elusive goal yet the benefits of investingin water, sanitation and hygiene to achieve basic water security and alleviatepoverty are clear. Households benefit through a range of livelihood impacts;economies benefit from greater economic activity and over the longer-term,households and economies benefit through greater resilience to climatechange and shocks. So why are governments and their development partnersstruggling to meet water and sanitation targets? What factors make it difficultto sustain services at scale? And how can policies and plans for delivering andsustaining services for poor people be strengthened in the face of multiplepressures, including climate change? This book addresses these questions anddraws conclusions for policy and practice, linking findings with currentinternational debates on service delivery in rural areas. This book should beread by government agencies, donor organisations and NGOs, as well asacademics and researchers in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector.Published in association with ODI.

‘Water security matters, and it matters most to the most vulnerable individuals, households, communities and nations.Ethiopia is home to many millions of people who are anything but water-secure. This publication shines a light on suchpeople, and it provides numerous inter-disciplinary insights into the causes of water insecurity and into some of themeasures which are needed to relieve that insecurity. There are too few research programmes of this type which focuson situations of real need in the world, and which grapple with the difficult issues associated with the relief of povertyand vulnerability. I warmly welcome this contribution to the literature, and hope that this work will inform the practicesand policies of government and development partners in Ethiopia.’ Richard C. Carter, Visiting Professor, CranfieldUniversity, UK

‘Consolidating these findings from the RiPPLE programme into a single volume to address water security in Ethiopia hasgenerated an essential primer and benchmark in realizing domestic water supply and sanitation in Africa’s second mostpopulous country. Being informed by five years of research and learning, this is a valuable insight into a criticaldimension of Ethiopia’s future security.’Melvin Woodhouse, Associate Director, LTS International, UK

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Savings Groups at the FrontierEdited by Candace Nelson

Savings Groups reach those rarely served by mainstream financialinstitutions.Maximum transparency, a profitable structure for saving, access tosmall loans and an annual lump sum of capital are the hallmarks of the SavingsGroup methodology. The outcome: empowered groups, made up mostly ofwomen, who manage themselves as tiny financial institutions. Today there areSavings Groups in 60 countries with more than 6 million members, the result ofinitiatives carried out by dozens of international and local NGOs. Savings Groupsat the Frontier explores the issues that will shape the future of Savings Groups.What are the costs, required inputs, and anticipated outreach of these groups?How does replication take place? How sustainable are the groups? Is it feasibleto integrate financial and non-financial services? Are linkages to the formalsystem desirable? What is the impact of groups on members and theirhouseholds? How can performance be managed? This book addresses issues,not from the perspective of the financial institution, but in support of groupmembers and savers who are managing their own financial services.

This book is essential reading for all those concerned with extending financialservices to the poor: NGO and microfinance managers, bankers, policy makers,researchers and students.

‘The number of “savings groups” – local savings-and-loan clubs promoted and refined by NGOs and others – is growingfast, and their potential to help millions of poorer people manage their money better is clear. This well-written bookskilfully balances the thrill of witnessing an exciting new movement emerge with a sober and carefully documentedassessment of the challenges it faces.’Stuart Rutherford OBE, founder of SafeSave, author of The Poor and their Money

‘Nelson and friends provide a refreshing view of a niche in the microfinance industry where saving, rather than lending,is featured. The savings groups, so ably discussed in this book, are proving to be an inexpensive way of providingfinancial services to poor people, particularly in rural areas. ‘Three features of the book appealed to me: the emphasis onsavings as a way of easing poverty; the recognition that informal finance provides valuable lessons for those designingprogrammes for poor people; and the solid body of knowledge that exists about how to design, promote, and supportsavings groups.’Dale W. Adams, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University

‘Microfinance has for too long been focused on ‘microcredit’, that is, getting poor people into debt. We are at lastrealizing that savings must be the starting point for financial inclusion, and saving money, like losing weight, is mosteasily done in groups. This book shows us what should have been the beginning of microfinance.’Malcolm Harper,Emeritus Professor of Enterprise Development, Cranfield University, UK

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Toward ResilienceA guide to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptationMarilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett and Amy Hilleboe

Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate ChangeAdaptation is an introductory resource for development and humanitarianpractitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impactsof climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technicalstaff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks tostrengthen staff understanding of the basic approaches and principals that canbe applied to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptationinitiatives. It also provides practical guidance on how to integrate disaster riskreduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle and adaptactivities to a range of contexts and development and humanitariansectors.This guide includes examples from practitioners’ experiences thatillustrate good practice and learning, and suggests tools and resources thatpractitioners find useful. This book is a core resource developed as part of theEmergency Capacity Building (ECB) project. The ECB Project is a collaborativeeffort comprised of six agencies: CARE International, Catholic Relief Services,Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision International.Available in Spanish ISBN 9781853397882 and French ISBN 9781853397875.

'This guide is an easy-to-use resource that provides guidance for NGO staff and partners alike to tackle the issues ofdisasters and climate change. Not only does it provide 10 common sense principles for integrating disaster risk reductionand climate change adaptation in practice, it highlights the needs of vulnerable populations including children, so thatthey can be part of the process of building disaster and climate resilience.”Dr Nick Hall Head of DRR and CCA, Save theChildren

'For vulnerable communities in the Pacific that are already experiencing the profound impacts of disasters and climatechange, this guide is a fantastic resource. Not only does it recognize the importance of involving local people to build ontheir existing strengths to prepare for disasters and adapt to climate change, it provides practical guidance for identifyinghigh-risk groups (including children, young people, women, older people, and those with disabilities) and how to workwith them effectively. Congratulations on a great resource.' Maria Tiimon, Pacific Outreach Officer, Pacific CallingPartnership, Edmund Rice Centre

'While others still find it difficult to climb out of their silos and blink in the sunlight, the civil society organisations andINGOs that use these rigorously produced ‘good enough’ guidelines will come much, much closer to providing a fullyintegrated approach to disaster risk, climate change and livelihood enhancement. Once again ECB has produced awinner!' Dr Ben Wisner, Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, University College London

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The Challenges of Urban EcologicalSanitationLessons from the Erdos Eco-Town Project, ChinaArno Rosemarin, Jennifer McConville, Amparo Flores and Zhu Qiang

The need for improved sanitation around the world is becoming a crisis, andthe situation is particularly critical in urban and peri-urban areas in developingcountries. Here the population is growing rapidly, and where sanitation isprovided, the means to treat and dispose of waste safely is neglected, withhuge environmental and public health consequences. Sanitation solutions areneeded that are safe for the user and interlinked with other urban serviceswhich can treat waste as a resource. This book describes an attempt to createmodern, multi-storey urban dwellings that incorporate ecological sanitationinto their design, resulting in a clean living space, and deriving safe agriculturalinputs from human organic waste. The book highlights the experience ofimplementing the Erdos Eco-Town Project in Inner Mongolia, China. Thisremains the largest urban project of urine-diversion dry toilets in the world anddescribes the technical design, daily operation and maintenance, costs andbenefits compared to conventional systems, as well as the challenges inachieving acceptability with users.

This book should be read by engineers, policy makers, researchers and NGOstaff working in the field of water supply and sanitation. Published inassociation with Stockholm Environment Institute.

‘Project failures can contribute to learning as much as any success stories. The sanitation sector has many failures butthese are largely unreported. This book is a courageous effort to help us learn from the Erdos project; what can go wrong,so that we can be wiser for our next project. Thanks for the learning opportunity.’ Jack Sim, Founder, World ToiletOrganization

‘Radical sector innovation often encounters great challenges. This book provides a rich and fine-grained account of whyand how the acceptance of dry toilet technology in a newly planned neighbourhood in Erdos Eco-Town, China, failed tomaterialize. It thus contributes important learning for future initiatives in providing more sustainable ‘closed-loop’solutions for urban areas.’ Chris Luethi, Eawag-Sandec, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

‘The Challenges of Urban Ecological Sanitation is an excellent account of the best of intentions, diligently pursued, butstill flawed in practice. The book sets out a way forward, and lessons learnt, that are an important addition to the effortsto find sanitation solutions which ‘close the loop’, return nutrients to the soil, save water in scarce areas, and preventfaecal contamination in flood-prone areas. The book is a must-read for those concerned, with social engineering, andlesser known technologies, in the developing world.’ Shantha Sheela Nair, Vice Chairman State Planning Commission,Tamil Nadu, India

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Climate Change and ThreatenedCommunitiesVulnerability, Capacity, and ActionEdited by A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor and David W. Brokensha

Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenousgroups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generallyunacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and otherclimatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes,accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. This bookargues that planners and researchers of climate change mitigation andadaptation must take into account the knowledge and capacity of rural people,and engage them as active participants in the design and governance ofinterventions, not as a matter of courtesy, but because it is their right. Thisbook presents 15 case studies and a variety of approaches to document thecapacities and constraints to be encountered among communities facingchanging climates in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India,Indonesia, Italy, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Sudan,United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. It explores human interactions inenvironments ranging from subarctic tundra to equatorial rain forest, fromoceanic lagoons to inland mountains.

It is important reading for policy makers and academics in climate changeadaptation, anthropology and development studies.

‘Climate Change and Threatened Communities is a timely wake-up call and reminder of the local-level practical,theoretical and ethical issues raised by climate change. Scholarly and accessible, it illuminates the rights, interests,needs, and capacities of the many vulnerable and marginalized communities threatened by climate change. For allconcerned with how communities can adapt to the mounting stresses, shocks, and uncertainties of climate change,Climate Change and Threatened Communities will be a rich source of insight.’ Professor Robert Chambers, Institute ofDevelopment Studies, University of Sussex

‘This unique and significant book has global importance.’ Thayer Scudder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, CaliforniaInstitute of Technology

'It is not only an up-to-date contribution to the current debate on global climate change, but also a fantastic handbook forstudents.’ L. Jan Slikkerveer, Professor, Faculty of Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands

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Every Last DropRainwater harvesting and sustainable technologies in rural ChinaZhu Qiang, Li Yuanhong and John Gould

Over the past two decades a quiet revolution has been taking place in thecountryside of China where hundreds of millions of people have been liftedout of poverty. This book focuses on some of the practical actions and cleveruse of appropriate technologies which have been at the heart of this positivegrassroots-driven change in rural Gansu Province. Key to this has beenmobilizing the population and their expeditious use of rainwater harvestingboth to dramatically improve crop yields and provide households with reliabledomestic water supplies. Since Gansu is semi-arid and stored rainwater ascarce resource, ingenious systems of providing crops with just the rightamount of supplementary irrigation at critical periods have been developed.Challenges such as lack of fuelwood have been overcome by the developmentof simple low-cost solar cookers; the construction of low-cost greenhousesallows for the collection of rainwater and its use in efficient drip irrigationsystems. The real significance of this case study is that most of the approachesdescribed are based on universal principles of sustainable development.

This book is recommended reading for engineers, planners, staff of NGOs,academics and students in the water, energy, and agriculture sectors.

‘In terms of its scale, its long-term approach and the severity of the environmental constraints it had to face, the Gansuwater programme is of global significance. The technologies and approaches used will be of interest to many outsideChina, even if the conditions they face are less severe. This book is a major source of tested techniques in the fields ofwater supply and agriculture for semi-arid lands, solar energy and erosion control. I happily commend it.’ Dr TerryThomas, Head Development Technology Unit, Warwick University, UK, and author, researcher and consultant in tropicalrainwater harvesting

‘Every Last Drop shows that great strides can be made against the severe challenges of water shortage and soilconservation, without large expenditures, by using the best of traditional technologies combined with modern scienceand innovation. Millions of people are living better lives thanks to the sometimes simple but effective techniques ofcapturing rainwater for domestic use and agriculture. Required reading... and a strong case for more demonstrationprojects!’ David Bainbridge, Agroecologist, California

‘This book is an important addition to the literature on rainwater harvesting. It demonstrates in simple andunderstandable terms how the use of rainwater both for domestic needs and agriculture has developed in GansuProvince and is practised today. There are very many comparable situations all over the world and we all can learn muchfrom Gansu. Now, not only those who have seen with their own eyes but also readers of this book will turn into believersof the huge, yet untapped potential of rainwater harvesting.’ Hans Hartung, expert in rainwater harvesting

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From Poverty to PowerHow active citizens and effective states can change the worldDuncan Green

Seismic events have convulsed global markets since 2008, when this book wasfirst published, and world news has been full of stories reflecting a profoundsense of uncertainty about global futures. In response, this new edition ofFrom Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapterwith an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and foodcrises.

From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power,opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable orgovernment aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. Theforces driving this transformation are active citizens and effective states. Whyactive citizens? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in decidingtheir own destiny and holding the state and the private sector to account. Whyeffective states? Because history shows that no country has prospered withouta state structure that can actively manage the development process. There isnow an added urgency: climate change. We need to build a secure, fair, andsustainable world within the limits set by scarce resources and ecologicalrealities.

Second edition published in association with Oxfam GB.

'This book is invaluable for anyone who wants to understand both the shocking injustices of the way the world is run andthe means by which they can be put right. It rightly casts development as a matter of democracy, empowerment andredistribution. The new material in this edition, including its work on the food and financial crises and the Arab Spring,ensures that it remains as relevant as ever.' George Monbiot, Journalist

‘A tour de force…At once shocking, realistic and radical, this book takes us further on the road to understanding thechallenges of development and what needs to be done…It should inform and inspire all who are committed to policy andpractice for a better world.’ Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies

‘Oxfam’s great strength is that it channels the moral outrage that global poverty evokes into effective action based onsolid research. From Poverty to Power is a comprehensive look at development in this tradition.’ Dani Rodrik, John F.Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

‘A unique blend of solid academic understanding, serious activist experience, and political acumen.’ Ha-Joon Chang,Department of Economics, University of Cambridge

‘This book does justice to raising the spectre of inequalities...between the world’s richest and poorest people andcountries. It contributes to a better understanding of what to do to reduce global poverty.’ Bineta Diop, ExecutiveDirector, Femmes Africa Solidarité

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Gender, Roads, and Mobility in AsiaEdited by Kyoko Kusakabe

Poor roads and transport infrastructure are key factors in the marginalization ofwomen and other disempowered groups, but there is little understanding ofthe many ways in which a lack of mobility affects people’s lives. In South-eastAsia, huge strides are being made in highway development and regionaleconomic integration. The complex interplay of factors makes the connectionsdiscovered both interesting and challenging for study. Do roads necessarilybring economic opportunities and prosperity? How does the possible change inmobility transform the lives of women and marginalized groups? How does thedifferential impact of these changes on people depend on geographical, social,and historical factors and people’s own capacities to make optimum use of thenew resource? Gender, Roads, and Mobility in Asia brings together stories fromdifferent points of transformation and what emerges is a nuanced picture ofhow people’s own positions and capabilities – gender, age, ethnicity, literacy,and education – influence the impact of the infrastructure development ontheir lives.

This book should be read by policy makers, transportation planners,development practitioners and researchers, and academics in the areas ofgender and development studies and transportation planning andmanagement.

‘Finally, a book that does not compromise the complexity of mobility in a transport context. Drawing on mobility ascapability, Gender, Roads, and Mobility in Asia brings a variety of much-needed Asian voices to the growing discourse ofmobility and social justice, underscoring how the free movement of some is often guaranteed by the immobility ofothers..’ David O. Kronlid is Docent of Ethics and Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden

‘Explosive growth in infrastructure across Asia has implications which extend far beyond transport logistics. This bookshould be of considerable interest to development planners and regional specialists across a range of disciplines.’ GinaPorter, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK

‘This book successfully demonstrates the need to support women’s capability as part of the core objectives of transportdevelopment.’ Sonomi Tanaka, Principal Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development), Asian DevelopmentBank

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2012 • 146 pages


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A Handbook of Small-scale EnergyTechnologiesPractical AnswersEdited by Neil Noble

Gaining access to modern forms of energy remains a crucial butunder-recognised aspect of poverty reduction in the Global South. PracticalAction has long been recognised as a leading authority on energy access, withdecades of development programme and project experience worldwide uponwhich to base its policy and practice recommendations. To mark the UN Yearof Energy in 2012, Practical Action is publishing some of its best practicalbriefings and case study material for the benefit of energy developmentpractitioners around the world.

A Handbook of Small-scale Energy Technologies collects together in a singlehandy volume the best of the Practical Action’s briefing papers on thegeneration, delivery and use of energy from the longstanding Technical Briefsseries. From decentralized energy solutions such as micro-hydro to improvedwood-burning stoves, the briefs are based on technologies adoptedsuccessfully in a range of countries and over many years. Each of the briefingspresented in this book has been drawn up by technical experts in the subjectand incorporates the lessons acquired from many years of learning andreview.

This is the first in a new series of Practical Answers handbooks that providebrief how-to guides on a variety of practical subjects for internationaldevelopment workers.

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Provocations for DevelopmentRobert Chambers

Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues – or fashionable ones towin research proposals? How do poor people define their poverty? How canwe use aid budgets most effectively? Are many of our actions against povertysimple, direct… and wrong? Provocations for Development is an entertainingand unsettling collection of writings that questions concepts, conventions andpractices in development. It is made up of short and accessible writings byRobert Chambers reflecting on the evolution of concepts like participation andof organizations like the World Bank. Besides provocations, there is mischief,verse and serious fun.

The book is organized into four sections: Word Play, irreverently examinesvocabularies of development and how words are instruments of power;Poverty and Participation challenges concepts of poverty, presentsempowering breakthroughs in the current explosion of participatorymethodologies; Aid, is critical of past and present procedures and practices inaid and points to feasible changes for doing better; For our Future touches onvalues, ethics, gender and participation, immersions, hypocrisy, andparadigms, and sees hope in children. The final provocation invites readers tofind answers to the question ‘what would it take to eliminate poverty in theworld?’

‘An intoxicating cocktail of thought and practice, people and things, Chambers pokes and provokes us to reflect on thehubris and hypocrisy with which the “development profession” is stuffed. I shall mine this book – like a rich, nutty fruitcake – to help me understand the messy, iterative world of which we’re part.’ Camilla Toulmin, Director, InternationalInstitute for Environment and Development, London

‘May development scholars and practitioners use Chambers’ Provocations to put the post-World War II era of the“paradigm of things” to rest once and for all … and to give space for his better way forward. This book is a gift todevelopment scholars and practitioners. Read it, reread it, maybe even read parts aloud, and ponder.’ Robin Broad,Professor, American University, Washington, and co-author of Development Redefined: How the Market Met its Match

‘A smorgasbord of delightful provocations: Robert Chambers at his best – irreverent, sharp and illuminating!’ Gita Sen,Professor, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, India ‘Prepare to be provoked! This book is seriousfun, and should be read, skimmed or otherwise engaged with by anyone with an interest in making a positive differenceto international development work.’ David Lewis, Professor of Social Policy and Development, London School ofEconomics & Political Science, UK

‘Development studies as a field of inquiry and prescription has become becalmed in recent years, stuck in its owntruisms and assumptions. Sadly, few people seem to have noticed. For 40 years, Robert Chambers has been challengingcomplacency and simply-plausible thinking that lacks empirical justification or ethical rigour. His writings are alwaysworth reading...’ Norman Uphoff, Professor of Government and International Agriculture, Cornell University

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Sustainable CitiesLocal Solutions in the Global SouthEdited by Mélanie Robertson

As urbanization, environmental degradation, and poverty become increasinglyurgent problems, understanding the links between sustainability and povertyreduction is imperative. A sustainable urban future for all requires raising thequality of life of the most vulnerable. Existing at the margins of urban life,low-income residents of cities in the global south are subject to numerousenvironmental burdens and are too often excluded from mainstreamdevelopment and planning. In the face of these challenges, communities haveproven to be remarkably resilient and innovative. This book attempts to showhow this potential can be harnessed, by showcasing sustainable solutionsdeveloped by the urban poor themselves and present the findings ofparticipatory action research projects funded by IDRC’s ECOPOLIS. The studies,conducted in the growing urban and peri-urban areas of Peru, Senegal,Bangladesh, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Thailand, and the Democratic Republic ofCongo, outline concrete strategies for sustainable urban living and design,developed in partnership with low income city dwellers.

The book will be useful and inspiring to students, researchers, developmentpractitioners, and policy-makers alike. Published in association with IDRC.

‘What I found most valuable was the variety of interventions presented and the recognition that empowering localcommunities is essential for sustainable cities.’ Virginia Maclaren, Chair, Department of Geography and Program inPlanning, University of Toronto

‘This book is an excellent testimony to the necessary integration of disciplines and actors so as to achieve urbansustainability.’ Oumar Cissé, Director of the Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (IAGU), Dakar

‘This book presents an original look at one of the biggest challenges of the coming decades.’ Alain Olivier, Professor ofInternational Development, Université Laval, Canada

‘By engaging with a diverse number of initiatives in the urban Global South, the book offers great insights into the agencydeployed by ordinary women and men in shaping environmentally sustainable urban futures.’ Adriana Allen, SeniorLecturer, Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College, London

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Communicating FinancialManagement with Non-financePeopleA manual for international developmentworkers

John Cammack

Strong financial management skills areessential to promote high programmestandards in international developmentorganizations. Many non-finance peoplefind numbers and financial techniquesdifficult, however, NGO managers andother staff are responsible for soundfinancial management and without fullunderstanding their programmes will beat best less effective, and at worstvulnerable to going unfunded. Justproviding more skills training does notaddress all the issues. Poorcommunication about financialinformation, by both finance andnon-finance people, often seems tocause a block. This book helps peoplespeak and write financial informationbetter, avoiding jargon, and preventingtheir listeners from ‘switching off’. Itexplains why messages about financemay not be received as they wereintended when working cross-culturallyand outlines how information can betailored to different audiences. Itoutlines how to design training sessionsthat improve understanding andcollaboration between finance andnon-finance people, including partnerorganizations, trustees, and staff. Thisbook shoud be read by non-finance andfinance managers and staff withinnon-profit organizationsinternationally, as well as otherorganizations.


Minimum Economic RecoveryStandards

The SEEP Network

The origins of the Minimum EconomicRecovery Standards are rooted in pastcrises, such as the Indian Oceantsunami and the 2010 Haiti earthquake,and the increasing prevalence ofprolonged complex emergencies, suchas in Ethiopia and Afghanistan. Thesecrises highlight the need for strategiesthat 1) support the stabilization and/orre-emergence of enterprises as a sourceof income and employment for affectedpopulations, and 2) support thedevelopment and strengthening ofinstitutions to support the stabilizationand coping mechanisms of householdsto weather these crises.Theprogrammatic focus of the MinimumEconomic Recovery Standards is onstrategies and interventions designed toimprove income, cash flow, assetmanagement, and growth amongcrisis-affected households andenterprises. These Standards weredeveloped for practitioners experiencedin humanitarian situations, but lessfamiliar with economic recoveryinitiatives, or experienced in economicdevelopment, but unaccustomed tocrisis environments, and those workingin multiple sectors in crisisenvironments: health, education,infrastructure, or HIV and AIDS.

Also available in French ISBN9781853397974 and Spanish ISBN9781853397998


We Work at HomeThe training manual

Edited by Kate Jehan

A training manual designed to assistorganizations or individuals tofacilitate the building of independenthome-based worker organizations.Home-based working is defined as paidemployment in the home or in a buildingor yard near the home, for exampletraditional crafts, making clothes andshoes, or basic clerical work. Millionsof women around the world take up thisform of employment. However, there israrely a regular supply of work,home-based workers do not usuallyhave any rights such as the right to aminimum wage, social security or apension. These workers are rarelycounted in official statistics orrecognized by trade unions. Drawing onexperience in Asia, Latin America, andEastern Europe, this practical manualoutlines training in "mapping", asuccessful strategy for organizing andempowering home-based workers. Itpresents ideas, activities, and handoutsaround which a wide range of trainingsessions may be built.

2012 • 340 pagesISBN 9781853397158 Spiral bound£24.95 • €37.95 • $49.95

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Candlemaking for ProfitA practical guide for small-scaleproducers

Robert Aley

Candlemaking is a traditional craftwhich can be converted into a modernsmall business with viable markets inmost countries around the world. Thisbook includes instructions on how todetermine the feasibility of acandlemaking business, and advises onessential business planning. It givesdetailed and specific guidance in thecritical areas of pricing, marketing andselling. Candlemaking for Profit coversthe various materials and methods usedin candlemaking. It includesstep-by-step illustrations to explainmethods appropriate for small-scaleproduction. It advises on different waxtypes, wicks, dyes and scents and givesadvice on dealing with materialsuppliers. The methods illustratedinclude dipping, moulding, pouring andhow to make container candles. Findingworkshop space is also covered, withinformation about costs of premises,workshop layout, stock control andsafety. The book explains how to keepahead through design and innovation. Itincludes advice on how to generatecreative ideas, respond to market trendsand safeguard intellectual property.This is a simple and clear practicalguide for those who are looking for abusiness start-up or who want toconvert their candlemaking hobby into aprofitable small business, whetherliving in an economically rich ordeveloping country.


Decentralized Energy Accessand the MillenniumDevelopment GoalsAn analysis of the development benefitsof micro hydropower in rural Nepal

Gwénaëlle Legros, Kamal Rijal andBahareh Seyedi

Decentralized, off-grid power suppliessuch as micro hydropower can beperceived as expensive investments bypoor countries like Nepal. Can theseinvestments be justified by the benefitsthat electricity brings to villages inremote mountainous regions? This bookdescribes research into the developmentgains brought to such villages,measured in terms of progress towardsachieving the millennium developmentgoals. Indicators relating to income,education, gender equality, maternaland child health and environmentalimpact were measured in villagesbenefiting from micro hydropower,compared with neighbouring villageswithout an electricity supply.Decentralized Energy Access and theMillennium Development Goalsprovides conclusive evidence of thesetransformative benefits andrecommends that Nepal, and countrieslike it, scale up investments in itsmicrohydropower programme.

Published in association with UNDP andAEP, Nepal.


Designing and Building Miniand Micro Hydro PowerSchemes

Luis Rodriguez and Teodoro Sanchez

Small hydro power installations havethe potential to provide a renewablesupply of energy to people in remote,hilly communities, far from the nationalgird. This book is based on the authors'considerable experience of installinghydroelectric schemes that produce upto 500kW for powering smallcommunities. The book describes notonly the electro-mechanical equipmentand how it is installed, but also thecorrect setting of the installation andhow to design and build the channelsleading up to the turbine so as tooptimize performance. These civil workscan be carried out by local manpower,using materials that are usuallyavailable locally. Chapters cover themain components of small hydroelectricplants from the intake and the headracechannel, via the conveyance channel, tothe forebay tank, penstock, turbine, andgenerator. This practical manual is amajor new addition to the resourcesavailable for micro-hydro power projectand programme managers worldwideand represents excellent value for sucha detailed technical referencehandbook.


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Expanding Energy Access inDeveloping CountriesThe role of mechanical power

UNDP and Practical Action Consulting

Mechanical power has long beenrecognised as crucial for some of themost fundamental services required forhuman development. For centuries,water pumping, food processing, andmanufacturing , amongst otherproductive uses, have been enhanced bythe application of mechanical power.Recent technological advances inmechanical power have furtherenhanced productivity and reduced thedrudgery of human labour associatedwith these tasks. However, in spite of theundoubted importance of mechanicalpower in meeting every day energy needsat a local level, it is generallyunder-appreciated to the point thatthere is an almost complete lack ofofficial data and documentation of itsrole. Expanding Energy Access inDeveloping Countries surveys the varietyof mechanical power applications andoptions available, and argues that theyshould be given more consideration bypolicy makers and practitionersresponsible for improving energy accessfor poor communities worldwide. Thispublication will be of interest to anyoneseeking an overview of mechanicalpower and its use in pro-poordevelopment work and should berequired reading for programmeplanners at national and local level.


From Vulnerability toResilienceA framework for analysis and action tobuild community resilience

Katherine Pasteur

From Vulnerability to Resilience – V2R –is a framework for analysis and actionto reduce vulnerability and strengthenthe resilience of individuals,households and communities. Theframework sets out the key factors thatcontribute to peoples’ vulnerability,namely, exposure to hazards andstresses, fragile livelihoods, futureuncertainty and weak governance. Itprovides detailed explanations of thelinkages between those factors, as wellas ideas for action to strengthenresilience. The framework wasdeveloped to address the need to workin a more integrated way to tackle thecauses and consequences ofvulnerability. The book is intended toprovide guidance to the reader, ratherthan to dictate a set way of doing things.The material can also be adapted to suitcommunication to other audiences suchas community-based organizations. Theissues and principles highlighted in thisbook are of relevance to a wideaudience including practitioners (NGOsand local government staff),researchers, and policy makers workingin the fi elds of livelihoods, disastermanagement and climate changeadaptation.


Gender and the EconomicCrisis

Edited by Ruth Pearson and CarolineSweetman

The current global economic crisis isexpected to lead to millions more peoplebeing pushed into extreme poverty. Theeffects are profoundly different forwomen and men, and the existing genderinequalities and power imbalancesmean that additional problems arefalling disproportionately on those whoare already structurally disempoweredand marginalised. The economic crisisis the latest element in a complex web ofshocks and longer-term traumasaffecting women, men and their familiesin developing countries. These includefood and fuel shocks, changing climaticconditions, and the HIV pandemic. Formany people living in poverty, thesecrises are experienced as onemultifaceted crisis, which hasaccentuated alreadyexisting underlyingchronic concerns in both the productiveand the reproductive (care) economiesof the world. While these issues remainlargely invisible to mainstreameconomists and policymakers, they arecritical to the development of effectiveand sustainable responses to the crisis.Contributors to this book map theemerging impact of the economic crisison women, men and their families indifferent contexts, and suggest policyand practice changes.


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Gender, Faith, andDevelopment

Edited by Emma Tomalin

Faith-based organizations have longbeen involved in charitable anddevelopment activities. However, theemerging openness to thinking aboutand engaging with religion indevelopment raises some importantquestions. Does religious engagement indevelopment policy and practice riskharming already fragile genderrelations? What are the challenges andopportunities in negotiating therelationships between religion, gender,and development? Gender, Faith, andDevelopment presents ten chapterswhich explore in different ways therelationships between religion, gender,and development. Subjects coveredinclude attitudes towards sexualbehaviour in areas with a highprevalence of HIV and AIDS; householddisputes over the control of export cropincome in Kenya; constraints onwomen’s time among tourist lodgeowners in Nepal; the difficulties ofintroducing Western models of genderequity to those in Muslim societies whosee feminism as a threat; and changes inabortion legislation in Latin Americancountries. This book is essential readingfor undergraduate and postgraduatestudents, lecturers, and researchersworking in development studies, genderstudies, political science, sociology, andreligious studies. It will also be ofinterest to development policy makersand practitioners, voluntary sectorworkers, and social movement activists.


More People, More TreesEnvironmental Recovery in Africa

William Critchley

Over 20 years ago, concerned famers’groups in Kenya and Burkina Faso beganto adopt new measures to conserve soiland water and to re-establish trees intheir fields. Two videos, Looking afterour Land and Building on Traditions,recorded the new participatoryapproaches for land conservation beingdeveloped at that time in variouscountries. More People, More Treesreturns to the same communities, andsome of the same people, in Kenya andBurkina Faso to document developmentssince the original filming. The filmshows spectacular changes: mostobviously more trees planted andprotected by the people themselvesaided and encouraged by continuingcommunity projects. More People, MoreTrees thus highlights a demonstrablesuccess story for communityparticipation in agricultural change inBurkina Faso and Kenya. In this film, thelandscapes tell their own story, but sodo the local people. The accompanyingbook expounds upon the powerfulmessages in the film and describes thetechnologies employed by thecommunities, provides hard data tosupport their testimonies, and looks atthe current challenges of soilconservation in the context of climatechange.

2011 • 200 pagesISBN 9781853397172 Mixed media product£15.95 • €23.95 • $31.95

Poor People's Energy Outlook2012Energy for Earning a Living

Practical Action

Access to energy is essential for poorpeople to earn a decent living, to worktheir way out of the vicious cycle ofpoverty and subsistence. Whether youearn off the land, from a small business,through a job in a larger enterprise orthrough the supply of energy itself,energy is important. Poor People’sEnergy Outlook 2012 examines thelinkages between energy access andbetter opportunities for earning a living,while recognising that there are manybarriers which must be overcome on thepath from improved energy access toincreased incomes. This second reportin the PPEO series also revisits thedefinition of energy accessreintroducing the concept of TotalEnergy Access as a progressiveframework to measure how people useenergy in a healthy and productive way.The complementary Energy Supply Indexencompasses how people makeincremental improvements to the qualityof their energy supply. The Energy AccessEcosystem approach is presented,describing the interconnected web oforganizations working on energy accessand the system of which they are a part..PPEO 2012 will be of interest to anyoneseeking to better understand energyaccess and its role in development at ahuman scale. It should be requiredreading for the international energysector and programme planners atnational and local levels.


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Rammed Earth StructuresA Code of Practice

Julian Keable and Rowland Keable

Ramming earth has been a method ofconstruction for centuries in many partsof the world and the technique canproduce buildings that are strong,durable, safe and desirable. Becauseearth is an abundant and cheapresource, rammed earth buildings areoften very economical. To achieve thebest results the right techniques for theselection and testing of soils must beused to protect walls from waterdamage and shrinkage. This book aimsto show how high standards can beachieved and the criteria on whichrammed earth structures and buildingtechniques can be judged. Since the fi rstedition of this book was published, thestandards described in Rammed EarthStructures has been adopted as aBuilding Standard in Zimbabwe. Furtherprogress is being made extending theuse of rammed earth as an offi ciallysanctioned building material across allSADC countries. This book is nowtherefore becoming an important guideand resource for those wishing toemploy this economical and low-carbonbuilding material in the construction ofpublic as well as private buildings inAfrica and elsewhere.


Sharing the LoadA guide to improving the welfare ofworking animals through collectiveaction

Lisa van Dijk, Joy C. Pritchard, SubirK. Pradhan and Kimberley L. Wells

Promoting the welfare of workinganimals is important not only for thesake of the animals themselves, but forthe livelihoods of their owners. Sharingthe Load aims to stimulate collectiveaction among animal-owningcommunities to improve the health andhusbandry of their draught and packanimals, by applying the methods ofcommunity facilitation and collectiveaction to the pursuit of animal welfare.Since 2005, the Brooke has beenpioneering the integration of animalwelfare science with best practice fromthe international development sector tobuild communities’ responsibility forsustained improvement in the welfare oftheir working animals. Sharing the Loaddocuments the outcome of four years’development of this process andincludes field-based participatorymethods and tools designed specificallyfor this purpose, using livelyillustrations and text boxes inaccessible language on the theory ofdevelopment practice and animalwelfare science. Sharing the Load shouldbe read by anyone who has directcontact with working animals and theirowners, including veterinarians,community-based animal healthworkers, government extension workersand the staff of rural developmentNGOs.


Small Farmers, Big ChangeScaling up impact in smallholderagriculture

Edited by David Wilson, Kirsty Wilsonand Claire Harvey

Support for smallholder agriculture isseen as increasingly important, both toboost the food security and incomes ofthe rural poor and to provide food forurban populations. But to achieve scalein agricultural interventions, NGOs mustmove beyond a project-by-projectapproach and instead enable farmers toengage with market players. SmallFarmers, Big Change considers learningfrom the experience of Oxfam’s globalagricultural scale-up initiative as wellas from wider agriculturalmarkets-based programming. This bookincludes very practical examples ofachieving wider change in smallholderagriculture, through influencing policyand investment decisions, linkingsmallholders into markets and valuechains, and innovating serviceprovision for small farmers. The casestudies outline what steps were taken tofacilitate new types of farmerorganization and alliances with anemphasis on promoting equitablelivelihoods and developing ruralwomen’s economic leadership. Drawnfrom Africa, Latin America and Asia, thecases include information aboutchallenges faced and what remains tobe done in the future. This book shouldbe read by the staff of donor agencies,policy makers, NGO practitioners,academics and students of developmentstudies and the environment.


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Strengthening RuralLivelihoodsThe Impact of Information andCommunication Technologies in Asia

Edited by David J. Grimshaw andShalini Kala

Enthusiasm amongst internationaldevelopment agencies about harnessingthe potential of information andcommunications technologies (ICTs) fordevelopment has waned as observershave recently questioned the impact andsustainability of such interventions. Bypresenting the findings of researchspecifically designed to measure impacton livelihoods, Strengthening RuralLivelihoods offers new evidence for thedevelopment benefits of ICTs. The bookpresents an overview of six researchprojects within the ‘KnowledgeNetworking for Rural Development inAsia Pacific’ (ENRAP) researchprogramme. It asks if ICTs enabledfarmers to sell beyond local marketsand at better prices, and whether therehave been social gains in linkinggeographically disparate householdsand social networks. The authors haveprovided significant new insights intohow to overcome the challenges ofmainstreaming ICTs into rurallivelihoods and more effectivelymeasuring its effects. This book willappeal to academics, civil societyorganizations, practitioners andstudents who are interested in whatworks and what doesn’t work whenapplying ICTs to rural livelihoods.


Supporting Rural Water SupplyMoving towards a Service DeliveryApproach

Harold Lockwood and Stef Smits

Collectively, billions of dollars havebeen invested in the provision of ruralwater supply systems in developingcountries over the past three decades.Although progress is being made andrates of coverage are increasing, usersoften find that, once installed, watersupply systems are poorly maintainedand eventually break down, leavingthem with an unreliable and disruptedwater supply. Supporting Rural WaterSupply takes a critical look and askswhy we have been unable to provide asustainable water service to ruralpeople for so long? What are the criticalsuccess factors in the areas where therehas been good progress? How can wesupport the adoption of a servicedelivery approach to rural water supply– one that moves beyond implementinginfrastructure projects to delivering areliable and indefinite service? Thisbook brings together findings from 13country studies which were carried outas part of a global learning initiative –Sustainable Services at Scale, orTriple-S. It offers insights into wayscountries and individual organisationscan move towards a service deliveryapproach step by step. Published inassociation with IRC.


Uncertain FuturesAdapting development to a changingclimate

Jonathan Ensor

Community-based adaptation is a newconcept whose meaning is still to befully understood. Most agree thatcommunities should be supported torespond to the challenges they face, andsome see this as the goal ofcommunity-based adaptation. Bycontrast, Uncertain Futures proposesthat community-based adaptation mustalso address inevitable futureuncertainty by supporting the ongoingability to change. In this view, attentionis focused on adaptive capacity, throughwhich communities are able to makechanges to their lives and livelihoods inresponse to emerging environmentalchange. Uncertain Futures argues thatas greenhouse gas emissions continueto accumulate, a ‘business as usual’approach to development practice isincreasingly inadequate and theimportance of securing adaptivecapacity becomes more urgent.Uncertain Futures examines thischallenge, and invites readers to rethinkdevelopment policy and practice interms of how adaptive capacity can bebest supported. This book should beread by the staff of donor agencies,policy makers, NGO practitioners,academics and students of developmentstudies and the environment.


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The Aid ChainCoercion and Commitment inDevelopment NGOs

Tina Wallace, Lisa Bornstein andJennifer Chapman

The Aid Chain explores the role offunding conditions in shapingco-operation and resistance as aidmoves from donors, to NGOs, to localcommunities. Significant proportions ofaid flow through the non-governmentalsector but questions are increasinglybeing asked about the role of NGOs andwhether they can deliver on theirambitious claims. This study examineswhether the existing aid processeswidely used by donors and NGOs areeffective in tackling poverty andexclusion. Findings from fieldwork inUganda, South Africa and the UK areused to show how the fast changing aidsector has, in the context of a dynamicpolicy environment, encouraged themainstreaming of a managerialapproach that does not admit of anyanalysis of power relations or culturaldiversity. This increasing definition ofthe roles of NGOs as essentiallytechnical, limits the extent of the verydevelopment that the organizations wereinitially established to promote.

'This disturbing and dramaticallyimportant book has been crying out tobe written. It is a stark revelation ofuncomfortable realities from which weoften try to hide...Anyone working in anaid organization who is serious aboutachieving the MDGs has to read thisbook, and to act on its lessons.' RobertChambers


Aiding Peace?The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict

Jonathan Goodhand

While NGOs’ role in advocacy andagendasetting is fairly widely accepted,their peacebuilding activities are morecontroversial and have come underincreasing scrutiny—not least from theNGOs themselves. As the number ofNGOs, and their role in conflictsituations, has grown exponentially,they have found themselves increasinglystrained to find an appropriate balancebetween competing demands for relief,development, human rights and peacework, and between their own roles andthat of other international and nationalactors.In this important study, which is firmlygrounded in seven case studies,Goodhand ably situates the role ofNGOs in peacebuilding within thedynamics of contemporary conflicts andthe evolving complexities ofinternational peacebuilding. His studypromises to become a valuable resourcefor the Peacebuilding Commission andother practitioners in their interactionwith civil society. It also stands to makea significant contribution to currentdebates about the appropriate role ofexternal actors in peacebuilding andour collective understanding of what itgenuinely takes to build peace.


Deconstructing DevelopmentDiscourseBuzzwords and Fuzzwords

Edited by Andrea Cornwall andDeborah Eade

Writing from diverse locations,contributors critically examine some ofthe key terms in current developmentdiscourse. Why should language matterto those who are doing development?Surely, there are more urgent things todo than sit around mulling oversemantics? But language does matter.Whether emptied of their originalmeaning, essentially vacuous, or hotlycontested, the language of developmentnot only shapes our imagined worlds,but also justifies interventions in realpeople’s lives. If development buzzwordsconceal ideological differences orsloppy thinking, then the process ofconstructive deconstruction makes itpossible to re-examine what havebecome catchall terms like civil societyand poverty reduction, or blandaid-agency terms such as partnership orempowerment. Such engagement is farmore than a matter of playing wordgames. The reflections included hereraise major questions about how wethink about development itself.


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DharaviDocumenting Informalities

Edited by Jonatan Habib Engqvist andMaria Lantz

Redevelopment plans threaten thelivelihoods of hundreds of thousands ofpeople who live and work in Dharavi, acity within the city of Mumbai. InDharavi houses and workplaces havedeveloped over generations. Markets,alleys and the landscape itself werecreated as a result of actions and hardwork, through negotiations and mutualneeds. Memories of these struggles,stories and dreams all intertwine inDharavi. This chronicle twists theinformal society toward a formal one. Itaims to show the creative power of thegrassroots and encourages politiciansand other stakeholders to listen to thedemands and to provide forinfrastructure and services. This bookdispels the idea that a ‘slum’ can onlybe a location for despair. Dharavi:Documenting Informalities revealsthriving communities, innovativearchitecture and powerful grass rootspolitics. By moving beyond abstractconcepts such as globalization andpost-colonialism, Dharavi: DocumentingInformalities gives detailed, personalaccounts of the many ways in which weare all linked to Dharavi’s people andindustries. Essays by Saskia Sassen,Arjun Appadurai and Sheela Patelcomplement maps, photographs,drawings and interviews made by agroup of artists and architects from TheRoyal University College of Stockholm


From Poverty to PowerHow active citizens and effective statescan change the world

Duncan Green

Seismic events have convulsed globalmarkets since 2008, when this book wasfirst published, and world news hasbeen full of stories reflecting a profoundsense of uncertainty about globalfutures. In response, this new edition ofFrom Poverty to Power has been fullyrevised and now includes a new chapterwith an in-depth analysis of the humanimpact of the global financial and foodcrises. From Poverty to Power arguesthat a radical redistribution of power,opportunities, and assets rather thantraditional models of charitable orgovernment aid is required to break thecycle of poverty and inequality. Theforces driving this transformation areactive citizens and effective states. Whyactive citizens? Because people living inpoverty must have a voice in decidingtheir own destiny and holding the stateand the private sector to account. Whyeffective states? Because history showsthat no country has prospered without astate structure that can actively managethe development process. There is nowan added urgency: climate change. Weneed to build a secure, fair, andsustainable world within the limits setby scarce resources and ecologicalrealities.

Second edition published in associationwith Oxfam GB.


How Africa WorksOccupational change, identity andmorality

Edited by Dr Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Occupational change is generallyassumed to accompany ‘development’and to be a necessary part of achievingimproved standards of living. Butoccupational change goes beyondindividuals’ economic activities andincome-earning to redefine their socialidentity and contribute fundamentally tothe reconfiguration of the ethicalfoundations of local communities andnation states. The search for alternative,viable livelihoods in times of economiccrisis involves age-old occupationalpursuits and work hierarchies erodingand new occupational identities andethics coalescing. Social trust is put tothe test as novel work situations andmobility patterns emerge. How AfricaWorks identifies the influence ofchanging work modes on the moraleconomy and social dynamics of thecontinent. Probing how occupationalchange alters identity and mouldsconsensus towards a new socialmorality, this book challenges the viewthat development is secured through amarket or alternatively a state-led path.Case studies reveal a wealth of insightsinto the interaction between states,markets, communities and households,and illustrate how material reality andethical values transform in unexpectedways. This book is important reading forstudents, academics and policy makersworking on Africa.





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The State They're InAn Agenda for International Action onPoverty in Africa

Matthew Lockwood

Two years on from the Gleneagles G8:What has been achieved? What haschanged? In July 2005 the first edition ofMatthew Lockwood’s The State They’re Inasked the key questions of the moment:What are the roots of poverty in Africaand what should now be done about it?How can a better understanding ofAfrican politics contribute to an entirelynew policy agenda for aid, trade, anddebt? This new edition continues toinvestigate these issues, now placing thearguments in the context of the MakePoverty History campaign of 2005, andthe outcomes of the G8 summit inGleneagles in July 2005 and the WTOsummit in Hong Kong in December 2005.It broadens the scope of the first editionto address the American approach toaid and the new 'transformationaldiplomacy' agenda. Finally, with'governance' now centre stage of policydebates on Africa, this edition clarifieshow the arguments in the book differfrom the standard approaches togovernance, and why those approacheswill not work. Lockwood draws on asubstantial body of research to arguethat much thinking on Africa - from bothofficial donors and from internationalNGOs alike - is flawed, because thatthinking either does not recognize ordoes not draw out the implications ofthe central role of politics and the statein Africa’s development problems.



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Whose Reality Counts?Putting the first last

Robert Chambers

In this sequel to Rural Development:Putting the last first Robert Chambersargues that central issues indevelopment have been overlooked, andthat many past errors have flowed fromdomination by those with power.Through analysing experience - of pastmistakes and myths, and of thecontinuing methodological revolution ofPRA (participatory rural appraisal) - theauthor points towards solutions. Inmany countries, urban and rural peoplealike have shown an astonishing abilityto express and analyse their local,complex and diverse realities which areoften at odds with the top-down realitiesimposed by professionals. The authorargues that personal, professional andinstitutional change is essential if therealities of the poor are to receivegreater recognition. Whose RealityCounts? presents a radical challenge toall concerned with development,whether practitioners, researchers orpolicy-makers, in all organizations anddisciplines, and at all levels fromfieldworkers to the heads of agencies.With its thrust of putting the first last itpresents a new, exciting and above allpractical agenda for future developmentwhich cannot be ignored. This is athought-provoking book and it wouldinterest all those concerned with therealities of the poor in the developingworld.





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Alms BazaarAltruism under fire - non-profitorganizations and internationaldevelopment

Ian Smillie


Arriving Where We Started25 years of Voluntary Service Overseas

Michael Edwards


BangladeshWhose ideas, whose interests?

Geoffrey Wood


Barefoot BookEconomically appropriate services for therural poor

Edited by Marilyn Carr


Barefoot RevolutionA report to the Club of Rome

Bertrand Schneider


Breaking the ChainsCollective action for social justice amongthe rural poor in Bangladesh

Bosse Kramsjo


Building CredibilityThe Foundation for Fundraising

Elizabeth Westman Wilson


Building Fundraising Programsto Attract Community Support

Elizabeth Wilson


Building Structures and Skillsfor Fundraising



Challenging the ProfessionsFrontiers for rural development

Robert Chambers


Disappearing Peasantries?Rural labour in Africa, Asia and LatinAmerica

Edited by Deborah Bryceson,Christobal Kay and Jos Mooij


Doing the Rights ThingRights-based development and LatinAmerican NGOs

Maxine Molyneux


Experience of PovertyFighting for respect and resources invillage India

Tony Beck


Fundraising Close to Home3 Volume set



Hungry for HopeOn the cultural and communicativedimensions of development in highlandEcuador

Carmen Hess


Learning from Gal OyaPossibilities for participatory developmentand post-Newtonian social science

Norman Uphoff


The Life IndustryBiodiversity, people and profits

Edited by Miges Baumann


Negotiating the Seed Treaty

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Other PolicyThe influence of policies on technologychoice and small enterprise development

Edited by Ton de Wilde, Thomas Henkand Stewart Frances


Policy Entrepreneurship forPoverty ReductionBridging Research and Policy inInternational Development

Edited by Julius Court and SimonMaxwell


Reaching the UnreachedChallenges for the 21st century

Edited by John Pickford


Science and TechnologyLessons for development policy

Edited by Robert E Evenson andGustav Ranis


Social Progress and SustainableDevelopment

Neil Thin


State of World Rural PovertyAn enquiry into the causes andconsequences

Edited by Idriss Jazairy, MohiuddinAlamgir and Theresa Panuccio

1992 • 542 pagesISBN 9781853391484 PaperbackISBN 9781853391477 Hardback£29.95 • €44.95 • $59.95

Supporting Citizens InitiativesBangladesh's NGOs and society

Richard Holloway


Time To ListenThe human aspect in development

Laurence Taylor and Peter Jenkins


Towards Village IndustryA Strategy for Development

L Berg, K Nimpuno and R Zwananberg


When Aid is No HelpHow projects fail, and how they couldsucceed

John Madeley


World Guide 2003/2004An alternative reference to the countries ofour planet

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Barefoot Guide to Working withOrganisations and SocialChange

Edited by The Barefoot Collective

This is a practical, do-it-yourself guidefor leaders and facilitators wanting tohelp organizations to function and todevelop in more healthy, humane andeffective ways as they strive to maketheir contributions to a more humanesociety. The guide includes tried andtested concepts, approaches, storiesand activities. Its purpose is to helpstimulate and enrich the practice ofanyone supporting organizations andsocial movements in their challenges ofworking, learning, growing and changingto meet the needs of our complex world.Although it is aimed at leaders andfacilitators of civil societyorganizations, this manual will beuseful to anyone interested in fosteringhealthy human organization in anysphere of life. In this book the authorsoffer a perspective on why organizationsexist, the real roles they play, and on theimportance of supporting thesovereignty of local organizations andsocial movements for meaningful socialchange. The manual provides some toolsfor reading organizations, includinghow organizations tend to move throughvarious phases of development, how wemight facilitate change and thechallenges we face in implementing orsustaining change.


From Vulnerability toResilienceA framework for analysis and action tobuild community resilience

Katherine Pasteur

From Vulnerability to Resilience – V2R –is a framework for analysis and actionto reduce vulnerability and strengthenthe resilience of individuals,households and communities. Theframework sets out the key factors thatcontribute to peoples’ vulnerability,namely, exposure to hazards andstresses, fragile livelihoods, futureuncertainty and weak governance. Itprovides detailed explanations of thelinkages between those factors, as wellas ideas for action to strengthenresilience. The framework wasdeveloped to address the need to workin a more integrated way to tackle thecauses and consequences ofvulnerability. The book is intended toprovide guidance to the reader, ratherthan to dictate a set way of doing things.The material can also be adapted to suitcommunication to other audiences suchas community-based organizations. Theissues and principles highlighted in thisbook are of relevance to a wideaudience including practitioners (NGOsand local government staff),researchers, and policy makers workingin the fi elds of livelihoods, disastermanagement and climate changeadaptation.


A New Weave of Power, Peopleand PoliticsThe Action Guide for Advocacy andCitizen Participation

Edited by Lisa VeneKlasen andValerie Miller

This field manual provides a well-testedapproach for promoting citizenparticipation. It breaks down thetraditional boxes separating humanrights, rule of law, development, andgovernance, and reconnects them inorder to create an integrated approachto rights-based political empowerment.A New Weave of Power, People &Politics combines concrete andpractical 'action steps' with a soundtheoretical foundation to help usersunderstand the process of advocacyplanning and implementation. This is an'Action Guide' that builds on theauthors' 50 years of combinedexperience in advocacy, gender, humanrights, popular education, and socialchange. These collective experienceswere gathered in Asia, Africa, LatinAmerica, the Middle East, Europe, theformer Soviet Union, and North America,and they range from participatoryresearch and community development,to neighbourhood organizing and legalrights education, to large-scalecampaign advocacy. It goes beyond thefirst generation of advocacy manuals todelve more deeply into questions ofcitizenship, constituency-building,social change, gender, andaccountability.


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Provocations for Development

Robert Chambers

Do we use obscure words to impress ourcolleagues – or fashionable ones to winresearch proposals? How do poorpeople define their poverty? How can weuse aid budgets most effectively? Aremany of our actions against povertysimple, direct… and wrong?Provocations for Development is anentertaining and unsettling collection ofwritings that questions concepts,conventions and practices indevelopment. It is made up of short andaccessible writings by Robert Chambersreflecting on the evolution of conceptslike participation and of organizationslike the World Bank. Besidesprovocations, there is mischief, verseand serious fun.

The book is organized into four sections:Word Play, irreverently examinesvocabularies of development and howwords are instruments of power; Povertyand Participation challenges conceptsof poverty, presents empoweringbreakthroughs in the current explosionof participatory methodologies; Aid, iscritical of past and present proceduresand practices in aid and points tofeasible changes for doing better; Forour Future touches on values, ethics,gender and participation, immersions,hypocrisy, and paradigms, and seeshope in children. The final provocationinvites readers to find answers to thequestion ‘what would it take toeliminate poverty in the world?’


Training for TransformationA handbook for community workersBooks 1-3

Edited by Anne Hope and SallyTimmel

Three volumes designed to assistworkers in the field who areencouraging the development ofself-reliant creative communities. Thebook has as its basic philosophy thebelief that we should all participate inmaking this world a more just place tolive in. Training for Transformationintegrates the approach of Paulo Freireand how to put his method into practice,Manfred Max Neef's understanding offundamental human needs, groupmethods which are essential forparticipatory education, organizationaldevelopment, which stresses how tobuild structures which enable people tobecome self reliant, and social analysisto help groups find the root causes ofproblems.


Training for Transformation (IV)A handbook for community workers Book4

Edited by Anne Hope and SallyTimmel

Training for Transformation Book 4 is apractical and accessible workbook forcommunity development workers. Itrecognises that the only changes whicheffectively transform the lives of poorpeople are those in which they havebeen active participants and focuses onfive issues which have become more andmore prominent in the concerns ofcommunities throughout the world: theenvironment; gender and development;ethnic and racial conflict; interculturalunderstanding; building participatorygovernance. Each section contains arich selection of relevant materialdesigned to stimulate interest anddebate, including simulations, real lifestories, telling statistics, news articlesand poetry and drama from localcommunities. The authors have drawnon their direct experience of working oncommunity development programmes inSouth Africa and the USA, as well asfeedback from many other countrieswhere the Training for Transformationapproach has been adopted. Trainingfor Transformation Book 4 will be idealfor adult education workers, socialworkers, community developmentworkers, church workers and tradeunion educators, and all organizationsand individuals concerned with theprocess of transforming society.





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Where There is No ArtistDevelopment Drawings and How to UseThem

Petra Rohr-Rouendaal

A simple to use catalogue, containing awealth of illustrations, with a uniquecombination of written text and visualaids. Second Edition now with FREEdouble CD-ROM (fixed to inside backcover). Visual aids can provideinformation, provoke discussion anddiscovery, and make difficult ideas easyto understand. They can also improvethe accessibility of a book or a postersimply by making it look moreinteresting. The book contains morethan 1,200 drawings (over 700 new tothis second edition) relating to a widerange of educational and health issues,along with advice on copying, enlarging,and otherwise changing the illustrationsto make them appropriate to aparticular situation, without usingspecial equipment. There is also adviceon pre-testing materials, to make suretheir message will be understood by theintended audience.'Petra Rohr-Rouendaal's drawing style issimple and expressive, relying on closeand regular observation of the peopleand the objects that make up her world.It is an accessible style, well suited tothe requirements of illustrations fordevelopment.'Bob Linney, Health Images





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Bridging Research and Policy inDevelopmentEvidence and the change process

Julius Court


Building in Partnership with theMaasai

Nashetu-E-Maa


Co-operative OrganizationAn Introduction

B Youngjohns


Complex Problems, NegotiatedSolutionsTools to reduce conflict in communitydevelopment

Michael Warner


Copy BookCopyright free illustrations fordevelopment

Bob Linney


Educating for RealThe training of professionals fordevelopment practice

Nabeel Hamdi


How To Run a SmallDevelopment Project

Edited by Geneva Group


Human Rights of Street andWorking ChildrenA practical manual for advocates

Iain Byrne


Inside NGOsLearning to manage conflicts betweenheadquarters and field offices

Naoki Suzuki


Managing for a ChangeHow to run community developmentprojects

Anthony Davies


Managing the GlobalizedEnvironmentLocal strategies to secure livelihoods

TiiaRiitta Granfelt


Manual of Practical Managementfor Third World RuralDevelopment AssociationsTwo-volume set

Fernand Vincent


Manual of Practical Managementfor Third World RuralDevelopment Associations.Organization, administration,communication

Fernand Vincent


Manual of Practical Managementfor Third World RuralDevelopment Associations.Financial management

Fernand Vincent


Mastering the MachineRevisitedPoverty, aid and technology

Ian Smillie


Methods in DevelopmentResearchCombining qualitative and quantitativeapproaches

Edited by Jeremy Holland and JohnCampbell


A Networked ResearchApproachA guide to conducting research in anetwork setting

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Networking for Development

Paul Starkey


Office Management forCo-operativesA self teaching text

Nicky May


Sharing Power for DevelopmentExperiences in Local Government andDecentralisation

Lilith Schaerer and Karin Fueg


Skills For LifeExperience of training in three developingcountries

Dennis Frost


Survival of the FitterLives of some African engineers

John Powell


To the Hands of the PoorWater and trees

Robert Chambers, N Saxena andTushaar Shah


Vocational Training in theCommunityThe design, implementation and qualitycontrol of integrated training

Reinhard Skinner


Wealth Ranking in SmallholderCommunitiesA field manual

Barbara Grandin


Work of a Co-operativeCommitteeA programmed learning text

Peter Yeo


You Pay for What You GetFrom budget financing to result basedpayments

Markus Arbenz


An Introduction to Co-operativesA programmed learning text

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Building Back BetterDelivering people-centred housingreconstruction at scale

Edited by Michal Lyons and TheoSchilderman

The devastating impact of disasters onthe world’s population is on theincrease, influenced by climate change,urbanization, and persistent high levelsof poverty, among other factors. There isa growing demand for reconstruction atscale. This book asks whetherlarge-scale reconstruction can beparticipatory and developmental; canrebuilding be truly people-centred,contributing to breaking the cycle ofpoverty and dependence? Canreconstruction reduce people’svulnerability to disasters and othershocks? Building Back Better examinesthe context for reconstruction, andshows how developments in the fields ofhousing, participation and livelihoodshave changed and enriched approachesto reconstruction. It then goes on toexplore the practice of implementinglarge-scale reconstruction throughin-depth case studies of recentprogrammes in Sri Lanka, Pakistan,Indonesia and India. The book intendsto inform policy, programme design,practice and evaluation. It will be ofinterest to agencies regularly involvedin reconstruction, to consultants andspecialists involved, to aid agencies, tothe authorities in countries regularlyfaced with disasters, as well as tostudents, academics and researchers.


Emergency Market Mappingand Analysis ToolkitPeople, markets and emergencyresponse

Mike Albu

Markets are a crucial component of howpeople survive. Understanding howmarkets are disrupted in emergencies iscritical to any analysis of hunger, and tofood and livelihood security. TheEmergency Market Mapping andAnalysis Toolkit (EMMA) is a guidancemanual to assist front-line staff to makerapid assessments of market systems inthe first few weeks of a crisis. Itspurpose is to improve early responseplanning so that resources are usedeffectively, and so that opportunities arenot missed to bolster future recovery inthe local economy. This toolkit can helpprevent lasting damage to thelivelihoods, jobs and businesses onwhich people’s long-term securitydepends. EMMA is designed forgeneralists, as well as specialist staffworking in the food security, shelter,water and sanitation sectors. It takesthem through ten practical steps so theycan both understand the importantmarket aspects of an emergencysituation, and communicate thisknowledge promptly and effectively todecision-makers. The focus is on simplevisual, graphical and largely qualitativeways of describing the impact of theemergency on people and on the criticalmarket systems upon which they mostrely. The manual also includes a freeCD-ROM of the Toolkit andsupplementary materials.

2010 • 232 pagesISBN 9781853396991 PaperbackISBN 9781853397288 Spiral bound£19.95 • €29.95 • $39.95

Engineering in EmergenciesA practical guide for relief workers

Edited by Jan Davis and RobertLambert

Engineering in Emergencies is a hugelysuccessful practical handbook for allrelief workers involved in givinghumanitarian assistance. It provides theinformation needed to implement aneffective engineering response in theaftermath of an emergency. The secondedition of Engineering in Emergenciesmaintains the practical content of thefirst edition but has been revised andupdated to reflect developments inhumanitarian relief in recent years. Thecombination of 'hard' topics, such aswater and sanitation, and 'soft' topics,such as managerial skills and personaleffectiveness, has been retained fromthe original edition and the bookexpanded to include two new chapterson security and telecommunications.The new second edition will be availableboth as a book and as a handy CD-ROM,especially designed to be light andeasily portable for relief workers in thefield. Engineering in Emergencies isdeveloped in collaboration with theagency RedR - Engineers for DisasterRelief, based in Westminster.


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The Humanitarian CompanionA guide for international aid,development and human rights workers

John Ehrenreich

Humanitarian workers -- working intheir own country or overseas -- facemany common challenges. This bookwill help them, and those training them,prepare both practically andemotionally for the wide range ofchallenges, dangers and insecuritiesthat are an everyday part of their work.

Written with both the new humanitarianworker and the experienced veteran inmind, the book deals in turn with themain stages of a humanitarianassignment. It starts with issues toconsider before you start out, then dealswith safety and security in the field,staying healthy, managing stress, copingwith the trauma of others, and dealingwith returning home at the end of anassignment. An extensive appendixincludes a checklist of 'what to do andwhat to take with you', a brief first aidmanual, and other practical informationand advice.

This book will be a welcome companionfor all humanitarian workers, and anessential tool for those training them.


Lessons from AcehKey considerations in post-disasterreconstruction

Jo da Silva

The Indian Ocean tsunami on 26December 2004 devastated the coastlinein Aceh province on the northern tip ofIndonesia leaving 167,000 people deadand over half a million people withouthomes. This resulted in anunprecedented humanitarian response.Over the next three years the DisastersEmergency Committee (DEC) MemberAgencies collectively constructed almost20,000 houses in Aceh, in addition tonumerous schools and health centres. In'Lessons from Aceh' their experiencesare used as a case study to illustrate thepractical realities of delivering asuccessful programme and the range ofissues that need to be considered;highlighting best and worst practicewhilst recognizing that there is validityin different approaches within the sameresponse. 'Lessons from Aceh' istargeted at senior managers,decision-makers and programmeadvisers to help them make informeddecisions, manage expectations andreduce risk in future responses. It willalso be of interest to built environmentprofessionals, researchers or policymakers. An important theme throughoutis the way in which reconstruction canact as a catalyst to recovery, contributeto long-term development and reducevulnerability to future disasters. InAceh, the most successfulreconstruction programmes have left alegacy that is much more than justbricks and mortar.


Livestock EmergencyGuidelines and Standards

Edited by LEGS

Livestock play a crucial part in people’slivelihoods throughout the world andwhen humanitarian emergencies arise,rapid assistance is needed to protectand rebuild the livestock assets ofaffected communities. The LivestockEmergency Guidelines and Standards(LEGS) are a set of internationalguidelines and standards for the design,implementation and assessment oflivestock interventions to assist peopleaffected by humanitarian crises. LEGSexpands the commitment in the Spherehandbook – the Humanitarian Charterand Minimum Standards in DisasterResponse – towards supportinglivelihood assets, by presenting clearand practical options for supportinglivestock during and followingdisasters.LEGS provides guidance on theidentification of appropriate livestockresponses, followed by detailedinformation on a number ofinterventions, namely: destocking,veterinary services, the provision offeed, the provision of water, livestockshelter and settlement, and restocking.Each technical chapter containsminimum standards, key indicators, andguidance notes, together withdecision-making tools and a discussionof key cross-cutting issues.

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Managing Humanitarian Relief

Eric James

Responding Effectively to humanitariandisasters is far from straightforward,and relief workers often find themselvesin a world of uncoordinated , highlycompetitive agencies working withcross-cutting purposes. ManagingHumanitarian Relief is aimed at reliefworkers charged with putting together aprogramme of action to help people inextreme crisis. It provides humanitarianrelief managers with a singlecomprehensive reference for all themanagement issues they are likely toencounter in the field. The book isorganized in two parts. First, it providesan outline of different reliefprogramming sectors: food andnutrition, health, water and sanitations,and shelter. Second, it presents 20separate management topics that areessential for overseeing programmes.It’s easy-to-use format includeschecklists, tables, diagrams, sampleforms, and no-nonsense tips frompractitioners to help readers inemergency situations.


Toward ResilienceA guide to disaster risk reduction andclimate change adaptation

Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrettand Amy Hilleboe

Toward Resilience: A Guide to DisasterRisk Reduction and Climate ChangeAdaptation is an introductory resourcefor development and humanitarianpractitioners working with populationsat risk of disasters and other impacts ofclimate change. It is aimed at programmanagement, advisory and technicalstaff of development and humanitarianorganizations, and seeks to strengthenstaff understanding of the basicapproaches and principals that can beapplied to disaster risk reduction andclimate change adaptation initiatives. Italso provides practical guidance onhow to integrate disaster risk reductionand climate change adaptation into theprogram cycle and adapt activities to arange of contexts and development andhumanitarian sectors.This guideincludes examples from practitioners’experiences that illustrate good practiceand learning, and suggests tools andresources that practitioners find useful.This book is a core resource developedas part of the Emergency CapacityBuilding (ECB) project. The ECB Project isa collaborative effort comprised of sixagencies: CARE International, CatholicRelief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam,Save the Children and World VisionInternational.Available in Spanish ISBN9781853397882 and French ISBN9781853397875.


Uncharted TerritoryLand, Conflict and Humanitarian Action

Edited by Sara Pantuliano

Disputes over land often start conflicts;and land is often a key issue whenrefugees and internally displacedpeople attempt to return home when theconflict is over. Access to land affectspeople’s choice to return and theirprospects of recovery. Yet humanitarianagencies largely neglect these widerissues on the basis that they are toocomplex and politically sensitive, andthat they lie in the mandate ofdevelopment or human rightsorganizations. Uncharted Territorybridges the humanitarian and landtenure divide and seeks to understandhow housing, land and property issuescan and should be practicallyincorporated into humanitarianresponses. The book explores thetheoretical nexus between land, conflictand humanitarianism, discusses thechallenges for a more integratedresponse, and presents the findings ofcase studies from Angola, Colombia,Rwanda, and Sudan. This book shouldbe read by humanitarian aid workers,policy analysts, academics, andgovernment officials in developingcountries.





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Beyond ReliefFood Security in Protracted Crises

Edited by Luca Alinovi, Günter Hemrichand Luca Russo


Development in Disaster-PronePlacesStudies of vulnerability

James Lewis


Disaster Mitigation,Preparedness and ResponseAn audit of UK assets

David Sanderson


Disaster Risk Management andReconstruction in Latin America

Barbara Montoro and Pedro Ferradas


Extreme EmergenciesHumanitarian assistance to civilianpopulations following chemical,biological, radiological, nuclear andexplosive incidents -- a sourcebook

Anthea Sanyasi


Famine Early Warning andResponseThe missing link

Margaret Buchanan-Smith and SusannaDavies


Hygiene Evaluation ProceduresApproaches and Methods for AssessingWater- and Sanitation-Related HygienePractices



Hygiene PromotionA Practical Manual for Relief andDevelopment

Edited by Suzanne Ferron, Joy Morganand Marion O'Reilly


Mitigating the MillenniumProceedings of a seminar on communityparticipation and impact measurement indisaster preparedness and mitigationprogrammes.

Jane Scobie


Nutrition MattersPeople, food and famine

Helen Young and Susanne Jaspers


Rising from the AshesDevelopment strategies in times ofdisaster

Mary Anderson and Peter J Woodrow


Rural Vulnerability to Famine inEthiopia1958-77

Mesfin Wolde Mariam


Understanding VulnerabilitySouth Asian perspectives

Edited by John Twigg


EMMA: le guide pratiqueAnalyse et cartographie des marchés enétat d’urgence

Mike Albu

2011 • 272 pagesISBN 9781853397288 Spiral boundISBN 9781853396991 Paperback£19.95 • €29.95 • $39.95

Livestock EmergencyGuidelines and Standards (BulkPk x 24)

Edited by LEGS

2009 • 6,528 pagesISBN 9781853397806 Multiple copy pack£180.00 • €270.00 • $360.00




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Emergency Market Mapping andAnalysis Toolkit (Bulk Pk x 20)People, markets and emergencyresponse

Mike Albu

2010 • 4,680 pagesISBN 9781853397813 Multiple copy pack£250.00 • €375.00 • $500.00

Vers la Résilienceun guide pour la Réduction des Risquesde Catastrophes et l’Adaptation auChangement Climatique

Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett andAmy Hilleboe

2013 • 200 pagesISBN 9781853397875 PaperbackISBN 9781853397868 PaperbackISBN 9781853397882 Paperback£12.95 • €19.95 • $25.95

Hacia la ResilienciaGuía para la Reducción del Riesgo deDesastres y Adaptación al CambioClimático

Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett andAmy Hilleboe

2013 • 192 pagesISBN 9781853397882 PaperbackISBN 9781853397868 PaperbackISBN 9781853397875 Paperback£12.95 • €19.95 • $25.95




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Particip

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From Clients to Citizens

Allison Mathie and GordonCunningham

Communities worldwide act on theirown initiative, drawing on their ownresources of leadership and solidarity,and in spite of poverty, to achieve theirown goals. Development practitionershave too often viewed poor communitiesas helpless and disadvantaged, andhave encouraged their dependency. Yet ifinstead communities are recognized ashaving social and cultural as well asmaterial assets, and these are what helpthem to overcome obstacles, then theircapacity to negotiate externalassistance on their own terms can bestrengthened. From the Moroccanvillages that secured irrigationinfrastructure with the help of returningmigrants, to the Egyptian youth leaderswho wanted a soccer pitch for theirvillage, and the indigenous women’scooperative in Ecuador that now exportsmedicinal plants, this book describescase studies of communities that firstbuilt on their own assets, before seekingassistance from outside. What are thecommon factors that help all thesecommunities mobilize? Do outsideorganizations have a role to play whencommunities take charge of their owndevelopment? From Clients to Citizens isaimed at community workers,researchers and policy makers whowant to take a fresh look at communitydevelopment.


Frontiers in Participatory RuralAppraisal and ParticipatoryLearning and ActionPRA and PLA in Applied Research

Amitava Mukherjee

Community participation or people'sparticipation in the process ofdevelopment has entered into thedevelopment lexicon permanently. Newmethods, tools, and approaches(variously called Participatory Learningand Action, Participatory RuralAppraisal or its earlier incarnationRapid Rural Appraisal) to enlist people'sparticipation has been invented,improvised and developed bydevelopment practitioners all over theworld. This book is a unique exercise inexploration and synthesis,demonstrating and documenting theexperiments which have revealed thatthe participatory tools, methods andapproaches can be very efficiently usedin several fields of human exploration.Each chapter, dealing with these issues,describes both the process followed inthe application of participatory toolsand methods in the respective field andthe synthesis of the theory ofparticipation with practice as well. Thisbook will be an invaluable guide topractitioners, researchers, academicsand students of development economicsand poverty planning.


Methods for CommunityParticipationA complete guide for practitioners

Somesh Kumar

This book combines the concept,practice and application ofparticipatory rural appraisal (PRA) in acomprehensive manner. The authorviews PRA as a means of opening up newways of approaching various problemswithin the development process. Hedefines it as a growing body of methodsto enable local people to share, enhanceand analyse their knowledge of life andconditions in order to plan, act, monitorand evaluate their actions. The basicpremise of PRA is that poor andmarginalized people are capable ofanalysing their own realities and thatthey should be enabled to do so. Thebook provides examples fromexperiences, material with directions foruse, as well as possibilities forinnovation. It is rich in insight fromactual practice in the field, and containsuseful tips on the best practices whichreaders and practitioners will findextremely valuable. The final partprovides a summary of the concept ofPRA. Somesh Kumar joined the IndianAdministrative Service (IAS) in 1989,after a brief stint as a psychologist inthe Ministry of Defence, Government ofIndia.


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Springs of ParticipationCreating and Evolving Methods forParticipatory Development

Edited by Karen Brock and JethroPettit

Learning from others in the form offusion and adaptation of existing toolsand approaches is very much part ofevolving new participatory methods,and is a key component of the process ofcreating fresh approaches to newchallenges. Springs of Participationbrings together the experiences andreflections of a group of practitioners ofparticipatory methodologies, who workin diverse situations and countries, inorder that both academics andpractitioners can themselves learn howto develop effective and sustainable newmethods. This book discusses a wideand rich range of participatory methods.The first part of the book focuses onReflect and the Internal Learning System(ILS). Both have evolved considerablyover a number of years. In the secondpart of the book, the authors reflect onwhat enables and constrains creativity,adaptation, and innovation, usingexamples of many differentmethodologies to illustrate theirdiscussions. These reflections comefrom two broad perspectives: frominnovators who have all workedprincipally as independent developmentconsultants and advisors, and fromresearchers. These two commonpositions in the world of developmentand aid give rise to different challengesin creating and using participatorymethodologies.


Voices from the Margins

Roger Lewins, Stuart Coupe andFrancis Murray

Describes the work of Practical Action inintroducing consensus-based planningapproaches in villages that are pooreven by Bangladesh standards, where 90per cent of people live under the povertyline and over 60 per cent are illiterate.These methods work on raising the voiceand confidence of the poor at the locallevel within their communities, and theresults have been spectacular: openingup new income generation and resourcemanagement and influencingopportunities for marginalizedcommunities in flood-prone areas.Highly useful in countries that reject therole of NGOs in governance or humanrights, and in planning for disasters andhumanitarian interventions. Essentialreading for programme staff of nationaland international NGOs, governanceand rural development advisors in thenational and multilateral agencies,Ministry officials, and researchers andstudents in universities anddevelopment institutes.


Who Counts?The power of participatory statistics

Edited by Jeremy Holland

Local people can generate their ownnumbers – and the statistics that resultare powerful for themselves and caninfluence policy. Since the early 1990sthere has been a quiet tide of innovationin generating statistics usingparticipatory methods. Developmentpractitioners are supporting andfacilitating participatory statistics fromcommunity-level planning right up tosector and national-level policyprocesses. Statistics are being generatedin the design, monitoring andevaluation, and impact assessment ofdevelopment interventions.Throughchapters describing policy, programmeand project research, Who Counts?provides impetus for a step change inthe adoption and mainstreaming ofparticipatory statistics withininternational development practice. Thechallenge laid down is to fosterinstitutional change on the back of themethodological breakthroughs andphilosophical commitment described inthis book. The prize is a win–winoutcome in which statistics are a part ofan empowering process for local peopleand part of a real-time information flowfor those aid agencies and governmentdepartments willing to generatestatistics in new ways. Essential readingfor researchers and students ofinternational development as well aspolicy-makers, managers andpractitioners in development agencies.


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Action and KnowledgeBreaking the monopoly with ParticipatoryAction Research

Edited by Orlando Fals-Borda


Fertile GroundThe impacts of participatory watershedmanagement

Edited by Fiona Hinchcliffe, JohnThompson, Jules Pretty, Irene Guijt andParmesh Shah


Grassroot HorizonsConnecting participatory developmentinitiatives East and West

Edited by Richard Morse


Learning from ChangeIssues and experiences in participatorymonitoring and evaluation

Marisol Estrella


Myth of CommunityGender issues in participatorydevelopment

Edited by Irene Guijt and Meera KaulShah


Pathways to ParticipationReflections on PRA

Andrea Cornwall and Edited by GarettPratt


People's ParticipationChallenges ahead

Orlando Borda


Power and ParticipatoryDevelopmentTheory and practice

Nici Nelson


Power, Process andParticipationTools for change

Edited by Rachel Slocum


Speaking OutWomen's economic empowerment inSouth Asia

Marilyn Carr


Stepping ForwardChildren and young peoples participationin the development process

Edited by Victoria Johnson


Who Changes?Institutionalizing participation indevelopment

Edited by James Blackburn and JeremyHolland


Whose Voice?Participatory research and policy change

Jeremy Holland


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Economic

Development

Communicating FinancialManagement with Non-financePeopleA manual for international developmentworkers

John Cammack

Strong financial management skills areessential to promote high programmestandards in international developmentorganizations. Many non-finance peoplefind numbers and financial techniquesdifficult, however, NGO managers andother staff are responsible for soundfinancial management and without fullunderstanding their programmes will beat best less effective, and at worstvulnerable to going unfunded. Justproviding more skills training does notaddress all the issues. Poorcommunication about financialinformation, by both finance andnon-finance people, often seems tocause a block. This book helps peoplespeak and write financial informationbetter, avoiding jargon, and preventingtheir listeners from ‘switching off’. Itexplains why messages about financemay not be received as they wereintended when working cross-culturallyand outlines how information can betailored to different audiences. Itoutlines how to design training sessionsthat improve understanding andcollaboration between finance andnon-finance people, including partnerorganizations, trustees, and staff. Thisbook shoud be read by non-finance andfinance managers and staff withinnon-profit organizationsinternationally, as well as otherorganizations.


Fuelling Economic GrowthThe Role of Public-Private SectorResearch in Development

Edited by Michael Graham and JeanWoo

The private sector is playing anincreasingly important role in thefunding of scientific research. As publicsector research declines in the countriesof the north and the south, research anddevelopment carried out by the privatesector becomes more important forinnovations that have economicpotential. In some cases networksbetween local firms and multinationalscan support learning which leads toeconomic growth. What are the policieswhich support such partnerships andwhat are the institutional arrangementsthat foster research? Seven case studiesfrom Argentina, China, Costa Rica, ElSalvador, Tanzania, Peru, thePhilippines and Vietnam examine howpolicies have been developed andimplemented to encourage innovation.


Industrial Competitiveness inAfricaLessons from East Asia

Sanjaya Lall and Erika Kraemer-Mbula

This book describes Africa’s positionwithin the current industrial globalsetting and analyses the recentperformance of African manufacturingrelative to that of other developingregions. It stresses the rapidly changingtechnological challenges faced byAfrican economies and Africa’s poorresponse to the threats posed by otherdeveloping regions such as East Asia.This analysis is based on theexamination of a set of drivers ofcompetitiveness related to technology,skills and foreign direct investment.With some exceptions for the twooutliers (South Africa and Mauritius),African scores in all these indicatorsare far behind the internationaldynamics. The observation of thesedrivers suggests that the basic problemof African industry lies not in theinvestment climate (which can certainlybe improved) or in gaining marketaccess to rich countries but in the lowlevel of its industrial capabilities. Itconcludes with a set of policy options,enhancing the role of the internationalcommunity and the need to improve theeffectiveness of African ‘nationallearning systems’. This book points outthe urgency of reconsidering currentAfrican industrial strategy and evolvinga new strategy focused on buildingcapabilities.


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Mapping the Shift in BusinessDevelopment ServicesMaking markets work for the poor

Edited by Malcolm Harper and JimTanburn

Small enterprises not only need creditthey also need many other services:training, advice, marketing, supplies,premises, accountancy, materials,technology and many others. Withoutthem, credit alone may do no more thanadd the burden of debt to all the otherproblems entrepreneurs have to face.Governments and foreign donors havetraditionally responded to these needsby trying to provide the servicesthemselves. Despite or because of heavysubsidies, these services have beeninadequate and of poor quality, andtheir main effect has been to 'crowd out'potentially more effective privatesuppliers. But policy makers are nowlearning that entrepreneurs are willingto pay the market price for qualityservices, and that small businesses inthe private sector are the best source ofservices for other small businesses. Thegoal is to make markets work inbusiness services as well as in otherproducts. Business DevelopmentServices for Small Enterprise shows howto make markets really work, how toreduce dependence on donor agenciesand illustrates critical issues, newfindings and radical changes with awealth of wide-ranging material. This isa key title for all B.D.S. practitioners.


Strengthening RuralLivelihoodsThe Impact of Information andCommunication Technologies in Asia

Edited by David J. Grimshaw andShalini Kala

Enthusiasm amongst internationaldevelopment agencies about harnessingthe potential of information andcommunications technologies (ICTs) fordevelopment has waned as observershave recently questioned the impact andsustainability of such interventions. Bypresenting the findings of researchspecifically designed to measure impacton livelihoods, Strengthening RuralLivelihoods offers new evidence for thedevelopment benefits of ICTs. The bookpresents an overview of six researchprojects within the ‘KnowledgeNetworking for Rural Development inAsia Pacific’ (ENRAP) researchprogramme. It asks if ICTs enabledfarmers to sell beyond local marketsand at better prices, and whether therehave been social gains in linkinggeographically disparate householdsand social networks. The authors haveprovided significant new insights intohow to overcome the challenges ofmainstreaming ICTs into rurallivelihoods and more effectivelymeasuring its effects. This book willappeal to academics, civil societyorganizations, practitioners andstudents who are interested in whatworks and what doesn’t work whenapplying ICTs to rural livelihoods.


We Work at HomeThe training manual

Edited by Kate Jehan

A training manual designed to assistorganizations or individuals tofacilitate the building of independenthome-based worker organizations.Home-based working is defined as paidemployment in the home or in a buildingor yard near the home, for exampletraditional crafts, making clothes andshoes, or basic clerical work. Millionsof women around the world take up thisform of employment. However, there israrely a regular supply of work,home-based workers do not usuallyhave any rights such as the right to aminimum wage, social security or apension. These workers are rarelycounted in official statistics orrecognized by trade unions. Drawing onexperience in Asia, Latin America, andEastern Europe, this practical manualoutlines training in "mapping", asuccessful strategy for organizing andempowering home-based workers. Itpresents ideas, activities, and handoutsaround which a wide range of trainingsessions may be built.





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Agents of ChangeProceedings of a conference on the policyenvironment for small enterprise in Africa

Edited by Georges Hénault and EPhillip English


Building Businesses With SmallProducersSuccessful business developmentservices in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Edited by Sunita Kapila and DonaldMead


Business Arithmetic forCo-operatives and Other SmallBusinessesA basic manual for the employees ofprimary co-operative societies

Trevor Bottomley


Business DevelopmentServicesA review of international experience

Jacob Levitsky


Changing Women's Lives andWorkAn analysis of the impacts of eightmicroenterprise projects

Lucy Creevey


Co-Operative SuccessWhat makes group enterprise succeed

Malcolm Harper and A K Roy


Consultancy for SmallBusinessesThe concept - training the consultants

Malcolm Harper


Developing Small-scaleIndustries in IndiaAn Integrated Approach

Marilyn Carr


Empowerment ThroughEnterpriseA training manual for non-governmentorganizations

Malcolm Harper


Enterprise in AfricaBetween poverty and growth

Edited by Kenneth King


Entrepreneurship for the Poor

Malcolm Harper


Equity and Efficiency inEconomic DevelopmentEssays in honour of Benjamin Higgins

Edited by Donald Savoie and IrvingBrecher


Export Marketing for a SmallHandicraft Business

Edward Millard


Feeding the MarketSouth American farmers, trade andglobalization

Jon Hellin and Sophie Higman


Financing Small EnterpriseProceedings of a Seminar Organized byThe Netherlands Development FinanceCompany (FMO)

Malcolm Harper and M de Jong


Flexible SpecializationThe dynamics of small-scale industries inthe South

Poul Pedersen


Getting Down to BusinessA training manual for businesswomen

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Just for StartersA handbook of small-scale businessopportunities

Alan Bollard


Looking Beyond CreditBusiness development services and thepromotion of innovation among smallproducers

Jonathan Dawson and Andy Jeans


Micro- and Small Enterprises inLatin AmericaExperience of business developmentservices

Edited by Jacob Levitsky and LeneHojmark Mikkelsen


Microenterprises in DevelopingCountries

Edited by Jacob Levitsky


African Development Bank

E Philip English and Harris M Mule


Asian Development Bank

Nihal Kappagoda


Caribbean Development Bank

Chandra Hardy


Inter-American DevelopmentBank

Diana Tussie


Titans or Behemoths

Roy Culpeper


Opening the Marketplace toSmall EnterpriseWhere magic ends and developmentbegins

Ton Wilde


Public Services Through PrivateEnterpriseMicro-privatization for improved delivery

Malcolm Harper


Refugee EnterpriseIt can be done

Edited by Chris Rolfe, Clare Rolfe andMalcolm Harper


Rural EnterpriseCase studies from developing countries

Malcolm Harper and ShailendraVyakarnam


Small BeginningsNew roles for British businesses

Alan Bollard


Small Business in TransitionEconomiesPromoting enterprise in Central andEastern Europe and the former SovietUnion

Jacob Levitsky


Small Business PromotionCase studies from developing countries

Malcolm Harper


Small Business Services inAsian Countries

Jacob Levitsky


Small Enterprises and ChangingPoliciesStructural adjustment, finance policy andassistance programmes in Africa

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Small Enterprises and ChangingPoliciesStructural adjustment, financial policy andassistance programmes in Africa

Edited by A H J Helmsing


Small Enterprises in DevelopingCountries

Malcolm Harper and Tom Soon


Small-Scale Cement PlantsA Study in Economics

Jon Sigurdson


Small-scale IndustriesPromotion in India

Sosthenes Buatsi


Small-Scale ProductionStrategies for industrial restructuring

Henk Thomas


Their Own IdeaLessons from workers co-operatives

Malcolm Harper


Trade and the Poor

John Madeley


Trade and the PoorThe impact of international trade ondeveloping countries

John Madeley


Value for Money?The impact of small enterprisedevelopment

Malcolm Harper and Gerry Finnegan


Wheels of TradeDeveloping markets for business services

Edited by Jim Tanburn and MilenaHileman


When the Harvest is inDeveloping rural entrepreneurship

Shailendra Vyakarnam


Where Credit is DueIncome-generating programmes indeveloping countries

Joe Remenyi


Women in Micro- andSmall-Scale EnterpriseDevelopment

Louise Dignard and Jose Havet


As though people matteredA prospect for Britain

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Micro

finance

Agricultural Value ChainFinanceTools and Lessons

Calvin Miller and Linda Jones

Agriculture remains an important meansof alleviating poverty, but shortage offinance can constrain its development.At the same time, agriculture is evolvingtowards a global system requiringhigh-quality, competitive products, andis organized in value chains which oftenexclude smallholders. Value chainfinancing in agriculture offers anopportunity to increase the scope, andreduce the cost and risk of financing toagriculture. It can also help valuechains to be more inclusive, by makingresources available for smallholders tobe integrated into higher value marketopportunities. Agricultural Value ChainFinance provides a comprehensive lookat the models, tools and approachesused by industry leaders in all parts ofthe developing world. These aredescribed, analysed and illustrated bymany rich examples in order todemonstrate how they work, and toextract lessons and applications forothers to adapt. The book builds on thedeep experience of the Food andAgriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)in agricultural development and financeThis book is essential reading foragribusiness leaders and technicalstaff, bankers and cooperative leadersworking in agriculture, NGO andmicrofinance developmentpractitioners, researchers and policymakers. Published in association withFAO.


Expanding the Frontier in RuralFinanceFinancial Linkages and StrategicAlliances

Maria Pagura

Despite significant innovations in ruralmicrofinance over the years, millions ofpeople around the world still do nothave access to financial services. Canlinkages and strategic alliances betweenformal and informal financialinstitutions and private firms helpresolve this problem? Drawing on 12case studies and one review conductedin 11 countries in Africa, Asia, and LatinAmerica, the authors show how formalfinancial institutions and companiesuse a variety of less formal, often rural,organizations to overcome theinformation and enforcement problemsof serving rural clients. Researchindicates that these linkages seem toafford both partners the opportunity toovercome weaknesses experienced whenworking on their own. This book is ofinterest to al involved in ruraldevelopment, particularly thoseconcerned with financing economicdevelopment and innovation. This titleis published in association with theFood and Agriculture Organisation ofthe United Nations.


The Poor and their MoneyMicrofinance from a twenty-first centuryconsumer's perspective

Edited by Stuart Rutherford andSukhwinder Arora

The Microfinance revolution is usuallyconsidered to have been led by theNGOs, donor agencies, and morerecently banks who offer poor peoplefinancial services. But what can welearn from the ways that poor peoplealready manage their money? What arethe essential elements that they prize somuch that they are willing to pay highinterest rates to money lenders, orspend time and energy setting upelaborate savings clubs? The poor andtheir money emphasizes the pivotal roleof savings in the lives of the poor, and inso doing overturns the commonmisconception that they are ‘too poor tosave’. Building on the huge acclaim thatfollowed its first publication, the secondedition of The Poor and Their Moneybrings readers up to date withmicrofinance developments in thetwenty first century, including India’sself-help group movement, villagebanks, and microfinance on Wall Street.It also describes the most detailedaccounts to date of poor people’sday-to-day financial strategies – theirfinancial diaries. The book’s clarity andavoidance of jargon make it appealingnot only to microfinance students andpractitioners, but to general readers aswell.


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Savings Groups at the Frontier

Edited by Candace Nelson

Savings Groups reach those rarelyserved by mainstream financialinstitutions.Maximum transparency, aprofitable structure for saving, access tosmall loans and an annual lump sum ofcapital are the hallmarks of the SavingsGroup methodology. The outcome:empowered groups, made up mostly ofwomen, who manage themselves as tinyfinancial institutions. Today there areSavings Groups in 60 countries withmore than 6 million members, the resultof initiatives carried out by dozens ofinternational and local NGOs. SavingsGroups at the Frontier explores theissues that will shape the future ofSavings Groups. What are the costs,required inputs, and anticipatedoutreach of these groups? How doesreplication take place? How sustainableare the groups? Is it feasible to integratefinancial and non-financial services?Are linkages to the formal systemdesirable? What is the impact of groupson members and their households? Howcan performance be managed? Thisbook addresses issues, not from theperspective of the financial institution,but in support of group members andsavers who are managing their ownfinancial services.

This book is essential reading for allthose concerned with extendingfinancial services to the poor: NGO andmicrofinance managers, bankers, policymakers, researchers and students.


What Works for the Poorest?Poverty reduction programmes for theworld's extreme poor

Edited by David Lawson, David Hulme,Imran Matin and Karen Moore

Poverty reduction has become thecentral goal of development policiesover the last decade but there is agrowing realization that the poorestpeople rarely benefit from povertyreduction programmes. Microfinanceprogrammes can help poor peopleimprove their lives but generally suchprogrammes do not reach the extremelypoor and the chronic poor: casuallabourers in remote rural areas, ethnicand indigenous minorities, older people,widows, migrants, bonded labourersand others.To counter this, governments,NGOs and donors have started to mountprogrammes explicitly targeting thepoorest. This book is the first attempt toexamine such initiatives and identify‘what works for the poorest’. It asks thequestions: what are the characteristicsof extreme poverty? how can we targetthe very poor? how can we ensure thatwomen are not excluded? Through a setof carefully selected and well-integratedpapers this book analyses innovativeultra-poor programmes from around theworld and explores the lessons thatemerge from this new and importantbody of knowledge.What Works for thePoorest? should be read by staff ofdonor agencies and NGOs, students ofdevelopment studies and interestedreaders who are concerned aboutchronic poverty.


What's Wrong withMicrofinance?

Thomas Dichter and Malcolm Harper

Microfinance has been a long-liveddevelopment fashion and in 2005 itenjoyed the accolade of a UNInternational Year. Many of the world'sbiggest multinational banks are noweagerly committing quite substantialsums to it, for business as well aspublic relations purposes. However,there are some important problemswhich risk being ignored or arefleetingly observed but then swept underthe carpet in the current euphoria. Theauthors sound a timely and overduewarning to governments, bankers,donors and the general public and urgespeople to pause, reassess theirexpectations, re-think some policies andto recognise that microfinance is nevera panacea and may sometimes beactively damaging to its intendedcustomers. This important book will beof interest to students of microfinance,microfinance practitionersinternationally, bankers, governmentministries and NGO donor agencies,training institutions, and academics infinance, economics and sociology.


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Cloning Grameen BankReplicating a poverty reduction model inIndia, Nepal and Vietnam

Edited by Helen Todd


Conversations withPractitionersThe Challenges of Market-ledMicrofinance

Edited by Guy Winship


Development, Divinity andDharmaThe role of religion in development andmicrofinance institutions

Malcolm Harper, DSK Rao and AshisKumar Sahu


MicrofinanceEvolution, achievement and challenges

Edited by Malcolm Harper


Microfinance Self-Help Groupsin India

Frances Sinha


Money with a Mission Volume 1Microfinance and Poverty Reduction

James Copestake, Martin Greeley,Susan Johnson, Naila Kabeer, AntonSimanowitz and Katherine Knotts


Money with a Mission Volume 2Managing the Social Performance ofMicrofinance

Edited by Alyson Brody, Martin Greeleyand Katie Wright-Revolledo


New World of MicroenterpriseFinanceBuilding healthy financial institutions forthe poor

Edited by Maria Otero and ElizabethRhyne


Our Money, Our MovementBuilding a poor peoples credit union

Alana Albee and Nandasiri Gamage


Partnership Financing for SmallEnterpriseSome lessons from Islamic creditsystems

Malcolm Harper


Practical MicrofinanceA training manual

Malcolm Harper


Profit for the PoorCases in micro-finance

Malcolm Harper


Rural CreditLessons for rural bankers and policymakers

K P Padmanabhan


Small Customers, Big MarketCommercial Banks in Microfinance

Malcolm Harper and Edited bySukhwinder Singh Arora


Sustainable Learning forWomen's EmpowermentWays Forward in Microfinance

Edited by Linda Mayoux


Village Savings and LoanAssociationsA Practical Guide

Hugh Allen and Mark Staehle


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Value Chains in DevelopmentEmerging Theory and Practice

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GenderIssues

Aid, NGOs and the Realities ofWomen's LivesA perfect storm

Tina Wallace and Edited by FenellaPorter

Aid organizations have their origins in adesire to help the world’s poorest andmost marginalized people – but are theyreaching these people? Factors arecoming together that put pressure onNGOs working in development: theeconomic crisis, the growingconditionality of aid, and increasedcompetition for funding between NGOs.This creates ‘a perfect storm’ driven by anew language of aid, policies andprocedures leaving poor women behind.This book explores how internationalNGOs are navigating these rapidchanges that challenge their role andlegitimacy, values, and overall purpose.The writers see a crisis for NGOs as theyare pulled further from those they claimto work with; they also explorealternative ways of conceptualizingdevelopment, and of bringing aboutimprovements for the most marginalizedand increasingly ‘unheard’ women.

This book is essential reading fordevelopment practitioners and thoseworking on women’s rights, as well asNGO staff , researchers, and students ofdevelopment studies.


Climate Change and GenderJustice

Edited by Geraldine Terry

Climate change is often framed as aproblem that needs mainly technicaland economic solutions. Climate Changeand Gender Justice considers howgender issues are entwined withpeople’s vulnerability to the effects ofclimate change, and how genderidentities and roles may affect women’sand men’s perceptions of the changes.The vivid case studies in this book showhow women and men in developingcountries are experiencing climatechange and describe their efforts toadapt their ways of making a living toensure survival, often againstextraordinary odds. Contributors alsoexamine how gender-equality concernsshould be integrated into internationalnegotiations and agreements on climatechange mitigation and adaptation toensure that new policies do notdisadvantage poor women, but ratherdeliver them some benefits. ‘No climatejustice without gender justice’; therallying call by lobbyists at the 2007 UNClimate Change Conference in Balicontinues to resonate as internationalnegotiations on how to tackle and adaptto climate change become more urgent.


Gender and the EconomicCrisis

Edited by Ruth Pearson and CarolineSweetman

The current global economic crisis isexpected to lead to millions more peoplebeing pushed into extreme poverty. Theeffects are profoundly different forwomen and men, and the existing genderinequalities and power imbalancesmean that additional problems arefalling disproportionately on those whoare already structurally disempoweredand marginalised. The economic crisisis the latest element in a complex web ofshocks and longer-term traumasaffecting women, men and their familiesin developing countries. These includefood and fuel shocks, changing climaticconditions, and the HIV pandemic. Formany people living in poverty, thesecrises are experienced as onemultifaceted crisis, which hasaccentuated alreadyexisting underlyingchronic concerns in both the productiveand the reproductive (care) economiesof the world. While these issues remainlargely invisible to mainstreameconomists and policymakers, they arecritical to the development of effectiveand sustainable responses to the crisis.Contributors to this book map theemerging impact of the economic crisison women, men and their families indifferent contexts, and suggest policyand practice changes.


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Gender, Faith, andDevelopment

Edited by Emma Tomalin

Faith-based organizations have longbeen involved in charitable anddevelopment activities. However, theemerging openness to thinking aboutand engaging with religion indevelopment raises some importantquestions. Does religious engagement indevelopment policy and practice riskharming already fragile genderrelations? What are the challenges andopportunities in negotiating therelationships between religion, gender,and development? Gender, Faith, andDevelopment presents ten chapterswhich explore in different ways therelationships between religion, gender,and development. Subjects coveredinclude attitudes towards sexualbehaviour in areas with a highprevalence of HIV and AIDS; householddisputes over the control of export cropincome in Kenya; constraints onwomen’s time among tourist lodgeowners in Nepal; the difficulties ofintroducing Western models of genderequity to those in Muslim societies whosee feminism as a threat; and changes inabortion legislation in Latin Americancountries. This book is essential readingfor undergraduate and postgraduatestudents, lecturers, and researchersworking in development studies, genderstudies, political science, sociology, andreligious studies. It will also be ofinterest to development policy makersand practitioners, voluntary sectorworkers, and social movement activists.


Gender, Roads, and Mobility inAsia

Edited by Kyoko Kusakabe

Poor roads and transport infrastructureare key factors in the marginalization ofwomen and other disempowered groups,but there is little understanding of themany ways in which a lack of mobilityaffects people’s lives. In South-east Asia,huge strides are being made in highwaydevelopment and regional economicintegration. The complex interplay offactors makes the connectionsdiscovered both interesting andchallenging for study. Do roadsnecessarily bring economicopportunities and prosperity? How doesthe possible change in mobilitytransform the lives of women andmarginalized groups? How does thedifferential impact of these changes onpeople depend on geographical, social,and historical factors and people’s owncapacities to make optimum use of thenew resource? Gender, Roads, andMobility in Asia brings together storiesfrom different points of transformationand what emerges is a nuanced pictureof how people’s own positions andcapabilities – gender, age, ethnicity,literacy, and education – influence theimpact of the infrastructuredevelopment on their lives.

This book should be read by policymakers, transportation planners,development practitioners andresearchers, and academics in the areasof gender and development studies andtransportation planning andmanagement.


Women's Leadership andParticipationCase Studies on Learning for Action

Edited by Joanna Hoare and FionaGell

This set of ten papers brings togetherlessons and experience on women’sleadership and participation fromOxfam GB and its partners. The right toparticipate in decision-making at thelocal, national, and international levelis one which women are often denied,whether as active citizens or as leaders.In particular, women living in povertyoften have very little opportunity toinfluence decisions and policies thatwill have a direct influence on theirlives and livelihoods, and on the welfareof themselves and their communities.Engaging more women to participate indecision-making will ensure that theirperspectives and needs are more likelyto be reflected, as these case studiesillustrate. The case studies illustratemethodological approaches andlearning points. They cover a range ofissues, from women’s participation innational elections to femaledecision-making in communitylivelihood initiatives. Authors highlightthree main approaches to strengtheningwomen’s leadership and participation:Overcoming structural barriers towomen’s leadership and participationSupporting women to take up leadershippositions Encouraging and supportingwomen (and men) to carry outleadership roles effectively and forprogressive purposes.


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Assessing the Gender Impact ofDevelopment Projects

Vera Gianotten, Verona Groverman,Edith van Wilsum and Lida Zuidberg


Blacksmith, Baker,Roofing-sheet MakerEmployment for rural women indeveloping countries

Marilyn Carr


Changing Women's Lives andWorkAn analysis of the impacts of eightmicroenterprise projects

Lucy Creevey


Do It HerselfWomen and technical innovation

Helen Appleton


Financing Women's EnterpriseBeyond barriers and bias

Thea Hilhorst and Harry Oppenoorth


Gender Dimensions in DisasterManagementA Guide for South Asia

Madhavi Ariyabandu


Gender, Small-scale Industryand Development Policy

I. Baud and G A de Bruijne


Lightening the LoadLabour-saving technologies and practicesfor rural women

Marilyn Carr


Missing LinksGender equity in science and technologyfor development

Edited by Gender Working Group


Missionaries and MandarinsFeminist engagement with developmentinstitutions

Carol Miller


Myth of CommunityGender issues in participatorydevelopment

Edited by Irene Guijt and Meera KaulShah


New MiddlewomenProfitable banking through on-lendinggroups

Malcolm Harper


Rural Women in South Asia

Edited by Jaya Arunchalam and U.Kalpagam


Speaking OutWomen's economic empowerment inSouth Asia

Marilyn Carr


Tech and Tools BookA guide to the technologies women areusing worldwide

Edited by Joanne Sandler and RubySandhu


Transforming DevelopmentWomen, poverty and politics

Margaret Snyder


Urban GirlsEmpowerment in especially difficultcircumstances

Gary Barker and Felicia Knaul


Women and Food SecurityThe experience of the SADCC countries



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Women and the Food CycleCase studies and technology profiles

Edited by UNIFEM and Marilyn Carr


Women and the Transport ofWater

Val Curtis


Women in DevelopmentA resource guide for organisation andaction

Edited by Practical Action


Women in Micro- andSmall-Scale EnterpriseDevelopment

Louise Dignard and Jose Havet


Women, Work and Technology inRural South Asia

Frances Sinha


Women's Roles in TechnicalInnovation

Edited by UNIFEM


Tools for the FieldA methodologies handbook for genderanalysis in agriculture

Hilary Feldstein and Janice Jiggins


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HealthNutritio

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Auxiliaries in Primary HealthCareAn annotated bibliography

Edited by K. Elliott


Children with Cerebral PalsyA manual for therapists, parents andcommunity workers

Archie Hinchcliffe


Community AssessmentGuidelines for developing countries

Douglas Stockman


Community Health andSanitation

Edited by Charles Kerr


Gardening for Better Nutrition

Arnold Pacey


How to Make Basic HospitalEquipment

Edited by Roger England


Hygiene Evaluation ProceduresApproaches and Methods for AssessingWater- and Sanitation-Related HygienePractices



Hygiene PromotionA Practical Manual for Relief andDevelopment

Edited by Suzanne Ferron, Joy Morganand Marion O'Reilly


Making an Impact in HIV and AidsNGO experiences of scaling up

Jocelyn DeJong


Making Health Care EquipmentIdeas for local design and production

Adam Platt


Medical and Hygiene TextileProductionA handbook

Allison Mathews and MartinHardingham


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Baking for ProfitStarting a small bakery

George Bathie

Most communities have the capacity tosupport a well-run bakery operation.With good planning and access to rawmaterials and markets, setting up abakery can represent an excellententerprise opportunity. Baking for Profitprovides the information that a smallentrepreneur needs to address whensetting up a bakery. The emphasis is onclear advice and instruction, beginningwith effective planning. The openingchapter covers first steps, includingsetting about the vitally importantfeasibility study. Subsequent chapterscover other aspects of setting up thebusiness, such as choice of site andlayout of buildings, hygiene and safety,raw material selection and choosing theright type and scale of machinery andequipment. The book gives appropriaterecipes for initial production, as well asguidance on suitable productionsystems. There are also troubleshootingcharts giving advice on overcomingproduction problems, as well as usefuladvice on stock management. Thispractical manual is invaluable readingfor those who are starting out in thebakery business, those whose job it is toadvise others doing so, or those whowant to scale up existing operations toincrease their profits.


The Complete Manual ofSmall-scale Food Processing

Peter Fellows

Small-scale food processing isimportant worldwide. For individualprocessors, it is highly accessible as astart-up business, especially for women;farmers and fishermen can readilydiversify into processing to increasetheir incomes; and high added-valueenables processors to earn an incomefrom relatively small scales ofproduction. For policy makers:small-scale food processing can createemployment, increase food security andimprove nutritional standards.Writtenby an experienced food technologist andauthor, this book providescomprehensive technical and businessinformation on all aspects ofsmall-scale food processing in a singletext. From how to assess the market, toprimary and secondary processing,packaging, managing food safety, andfinances, the book covers all thetechnical details and up-to-dateinformation needed by a food processor.It is written in simple language suitablefor the non-specialist and also forpeople who have English as a secondlanguage.


Traditional CheesemakingAn introduction

Edited by Josef Dubach and BillHogan

There are many remote areas scatteredthroughout the world where dairyfarming is a well-establishedoccupation. Large quantities ofhighgrade milk can be produced in suchareas but the local market cannotalways absorb them, especially duringpeak periods. Converting milk to cheeseis one method of dealing with thesurplus. Cheesemaking provides anincentive for improving dairying as wellas creating new jobs. It also improvesthe local diet and raises the standard ofliving generally, through a betterunderstanding of hygiene, scientifictechniques and community spirit.

Using traditional cheesemakingmethods, this book gives an idea of theopportunities that cheesemaking offersas a source of rural employment, and ofthe problems that will be encounteredby anyone planning to start such abusiness.


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Appropriate Food PackagingMaterials and methods for smallbusinesses

Peter Fellows and Barry Axtell


Cane SugarThe small scale processing option.

Raphael Kaplinsky


Cereal Processing

Edited by UNIFEM


Dairy Processing

Edited by UNIFEM


Drying

Edited by UNIFEM


Drying Food for ProfitA Guide for Small Businesses

Barrie Axtell


Fish Processing

Edited by UNIFEM


Fruit and Vegetable Processing

Edited by UNIFEM


Making Safe FoodA guide to Safe Food Handling andPackaging for Small-scale Producers

Peter Fellows, Vishka Hidellage andEmma Judge

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Manual Screw Press forSmall-Scale Oil Extraction

Kathryn Potts and Keith Machell


Oil Processing

UNIFEM


Packaging

Edited by UNIFEM


Pickles of Bangladesh

Shaheda Azami and Mike Battcock


Root Crop Processing

Edited by UNIFEM


Setting up a Food DryingBusinessA step-by-step guide

Fabrice Thuillier


Small-Scale Food ProcessingA directory of equipment and methods.

Edited by Peter Fellows and SueAzam-Ali


Small-scale Food Processing

Edited by Peter Fellows and AnnHampton


Small-scale MillingA guide for development workers

Lars-Ove Jonsson


Starting a Small FoodProcessing Enterprise

Peter Fellows


Storage

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Sugar Processingthe development of a Third Worldtechnology

Raphael Kaplinsky


Traditional BeancurdManufacture

Natasha Johnson


Traditional FoodsProcessing for profit

Peter Fellows


Training in Food ProcessingSuccessful approaches

Mike Battcock, Sue Azam-Ali andPeter Fellows


Try Drying It!Case studies in the dissemination oftray-drying technology

Barrie Axtell


Women's Roles in TechnicalInnovation

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BuildingConstru

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Building with EarthA handbook

John Norton

This handbook provides practical helpin choosing whether to, and how tobuild with earth, from soil selection toconstruction and maintenance. Earthcan achieve very high quality anddurability as a building material. It isalso frequently used by people with fewother resources for building. In manycountries earth is associated withpoverty, and is not thought of as a highquality and durable material. Mucheffort in recent decades has gone intogiving earth building the technical andsocial credibility that it deserves. Todayearth building successfully meets bothmodern and traditional building needs.It has also retained its advantage ofresponding to the requirements of boththe rich and the poor. The techniquesdescribed in the revised and updatedsecond edition of this book have a focuson maintaining this balance, and onachieving good quality results withaccessible methods.


Building with LimeA practical introduction

Stafford Holmes and Michael Wingate

The most common raw material formaking lime is limestone, which is oneof the world’s most abundant minerals,widely available in many countries.Lime has many other uses, but this bookis specifically about its use in buildingand construction, for which it has aproven track record through severalmillennia. Despite this long andsuccessful history, in recent times it hasbeen largely neglected whilst ordinaryPortland cement has dominated themarket. Building with Lime seeks torectify this situation. The book is arevised, updated and improved editionof the very successful one of the sametitle, by the same authors, published bythe same organization in 1997.This book is intended as a starting pointfor those considering lime as a buildingmaterial, and as a general reference tothe broad range of uses for lime inconstruction. It shows how to make thebest use of different types of lime,whether extracted locally or transportedfrom further afield. The book providesinformation that will assistmanufacturers, policy-makers,investors, suppliers, and the buildersand owners or users of the buildingsthemselves to understand the value oflime.


Earth ConstructionA comprehensive guide

Hugo Houben and Hubert Guillard

A comprehensive and illustratedhandbook which will be essentialreading for anyone involved inconstruction. Earth is extremelyversatile and cheap but users must havea proper knowledge of its real potentialin order to use it to its best effect. Thereare virtually no limitations on the use ofthe material, if users are aware of howto profit from the wide range of itsqualities and ameliorate its defects.

This book is intended to serve as apractical manual and teachinghandbook. It is aimed as all personsinvolved in earth construction projects:decision makers and planners, buildinginspectors, architects and engineers,technicians of all levels, buildingpromoters, bricklayers, andsub-contractors.


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Field EngineeringAn Introduction to development work andconstruction

Peter Stern

This book aims to meet the needs of allthose concerned with developmentprojects involving waht are ineffect,simple engineering works in rural areas.It will be of use to district officers,extension workers and the staff ofdevelopment agencies and allnon-governmental agencies in thedevelopment field. It will be valuable tovolunteers who do not have readyaccess to technical assistance, and willalso be of interest to anyone planningwork on a small holding, homestead orfarm.

Chapters deal with site surveying,engineering materials, water supplies,sanitation in general, planning andconstruction of roads, simple rivercrossings, bridges and small dams anddraws on the advice of experts in eachsubject and is the result of many years'practical experience in developingcountries.


Fuel for Free?Waste Materials in Brick Making

Kelvin Mason

This book covers the use of wastes infiring clay bricks via case studies inZimbabwe, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Peru.With respect to both livelihoods and theenvironment, energy efficiency inbrickmaking is critical. Not only doesincreasing energy efficiency serve toreduce brickmakers’ fuel costs andhence increase their income, it alsoreduces the emissions of carbon dioxideand other pollutants per brick produced.This book demonstrates that if energyefficiency is combined with appropriatefuel substitutions (co-firing), then thebeneficial effect on both income and theenvironment can be significantlyenhanced. The book addresses issues ofenergy use, the environmental impact ofbrickmaking, and the technologies offuel substitution and co-firing viacase-studies of the work of PracticalAction. The Peru study investigates theuse of coal-dust, coal-dust briquettes,waste oil, rice husks and sawdust. TheSudan and Zimbabwe studies look atusing a variety of wastes, includingcow-dung, bagasse and boiler waste.The book then explores the possiblealternative futures for brickmakers andthe need to mobilize political supportfor energy efficiency and fuelsubstitution.


Rammed Earth StructuresA Code of Practice

Julian Keable and Rowland Keable

Ramming earth has been a method ofconstruction for centuries in many partsof the world and the technique canproduce buildings that are strong,durable, safe and desirable. Becauseearth is an abundant and cheapresource, rammed earth buildings areoften very economical. To achieve thebest results the right techniques for theselection and testing of soils must beused to protect walls from waterdamage and shrinkage. This book aimsto show how high standards can beachieved and the criteria on whichrammed earth structures and buildingtechniques can be judged. Since the fi rstedition of this book was published, thestandards described in Rammed EarthStructures has been adopted as aBuilding Standard in Zimbabwe. Furtherprogress is being made extending theuse of rammed earth as an offi ciallysanctioned building material across allSADC countries. This book is nowtherefore becoming an important guideand resource for those wishing toemploy this economical and low-carbonbuilding material in the construction ofpublic as well as private buildings inAfrica and elsewhere.





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Accounting and Book-keepingfor the Small BuildingContractor

Derek Miles


Appropriate Building MaterialsA catalogue of potential solutions

Roland Stulz and Kiran Mukerji


Better Tools for the Job

W. Armstrong


Brick by BrickParticipatory technology development inbrickmaking

Kelvin Mason


Building For SafetyCompendiumAn annotated bibliography and informationdirectory for safe building programmes indisaster-prone areas

Andrew Clayton and Ian Davis


Building MaintenanceA management manual

Derek Miles and Paul Syagga


Building with BambooA handbook

Jules Janssen


Chenkumbi LimeFuel-efficient high quality production

John Spiropoulos


Clay TestingA manual on the clay/non-claymeasurement technique

Anura Gaspe, Peter Messer and PeteYoung


Communicating Building ForSafetyGuidelines for communicating technicalinformation to local builders andhouseholders

Eric Dudley and Ane Haaland


Culture, Cash and HousingCommunity and tradition in low-incomebuilding

Maurice Mitchell and Andy Bevan


Developing Building for SafetyProgrammesGuidelines for organizing safe buildingprogrammes in disaster-prone areas

Yasemin Aysan, Andrew Clayton,Alistair Cory and Ian Davis


Double Standards, SinglePurposeReforming housing regulations to reducepoverty

Saad Yahya


Financial Planning for the SmallBuilding Contractor

Derek Miles


Foundations for Change

Geoff Edmonds and Derek Miles


Gypsum PlasterIts manufacture and use

Edited by Andrew Coburn, Eric Dudleyand Robin Spence


Housing without HousesParticipation, flexibility, enablement

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How to Make Low-Cost BuildingBlocksStabilized soil block technology

Malcolm Davis


Lime and Alternative Binders InEast Africa

Edited by Elijah Agevi, Otto Ruskulisand Theo Schilderman


Lime and Other AlternativeCements

Edited by Neville Hill, Stafford Holmesand David Mather


Manual of Building Construction

H.K. Dancy


Mini-cementA review of Indian experience

Sanjay Sinha


Rice Husk Ash CementProgress in development and application

Ray Smith


Rural Building CourseFour-volume set

Edited by TOOL


ReferenceRural Building Course

Edited by TOOL


Basic KnowledgeRural Building Course

Edited by TOOL


ConstructionRural Building Course

Edited by TOOL


Drawing BookRural Building Course

Edited by TOOL


Small Building Contractor andthe Client

Derek Miles


Small Scale Vertical Shaft LimeKilnA practical guide to design, constructionand operation

Kelvin Mason


Small-scale Production ofCementitious Materials

Robin Spence


Standards and Specifications forLocal Building MaterialsReport of the ARSO/CSC/UNCHSworkshop, Nairobi, 16-24 March15/12/1987

Edited by African Regional Organizationfor Standardization (ARSO)


StoneAn introduction

Asher Shadmon


Technical Principles of Buildingfor Safety

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ThatchingA handbook

Nicolas Hall


Timber Pole ConstructionAn introduction

Lionel Jayanetti


Understanding Natural FibreConcreteIts application as a building material

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Country Boats of BangladeshSocial and economic developmentdecision-making in inland water transport

Eirik Jansen, Anthony Dolman, AlfMorten Jerve and R Rahman


Design and Manufacture ofAnimal Drawn Carts

Ian Barwell and Gordon Hathway


Design and Manufacture ofLow-Cost Motorized Vehicles

Edited by ILO


Design of Bicycle Trailers

Michael Ayre


Earth RoadsTheir construction and maintenance

Jack Hindson


Guidelines for Design,Production and Testing ofAnimal-Drawn Carts

R. Dennis


Labour-based RoadConstructionA state of the art review

Edited by Paul Larcher


Low-Cost Load-CarryingDevicesThe design and manufacture of somebasic means of transport

Ron Dennis and Alan Smith


Low-cost VehiclesOptions for moving people and goods

Gordon Hathway


Meeting the Challenges ofAnimal TractionA resource book of the Animal TractionNetwork for Eastern and Southern Africa(ATNESA)

Edited by Paul Starkey


Puncture PreventionTechniques for Low-costVehicles

Michael Ayre and Alan Smith


Road Maintenance andRegravelling (ROMAR) UsingLabour-Based MethodsHandbook

Edited by Claes-Axel Andersson


Road Maintenance andRegravelling (ROMAR) UsingLabour-Based MethodsWorkbook

Claes-Axel Andersson


Roads and ResourcesAppropriate technology in ruralconstruction in developing countries

G.A. Edmonds


Roads are not EnoughNew perspectives on rural transportplanning in developing countries

Jonathan Dawson


Rural Roads and PovertyAlleviation

John Howe


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Rural Transport ServicesA guide to their planning andimplementation

H. S Beenhakker Carapetis


Sailing Against the WindBoats and boatmen of Bangladesh

Eirik Jansen


Trail Bridge Building in theHimalyasEnhanced Access, Improved Livelihoods

Artha Tuladhar


An Annotated Bibliography onRural Transport

Edited by Niklas Sieber


Rural Transport in DevelopingCountries

Ian Barwell and Geoff Edmonds


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Urban

Development

Making Planning workA guide to Approaches and Skills

Cliff Hague, Patrick Wakely, JulieCrespin and Chris Jasko

The scale, rate, and even the nature ofurban development has changeddramatically in recent times. Themanifestations – rapid urbanization andthe urbanization of poverty, increasedsocial diversity, industrialrestructuring, moreenvironmentally-friendly suburbs –differ globally, but South and Northshare the opportunities and problems ofone planet. The search for sustainablesolutions for settlements crossesinternational boundaries. Professionalsand NGOs in different places andcultures are inventing new forms ofurban governance and planning. How dothey do it? What practical skills arebeing used? Making Planning Workshows why new urban skills are neededso urgently, and what can be done togrow skills and enhance capacities. Theauthors demonstrate how successfuldevelopment and governance of humansettlements depends upon collaborationand establishing effective partnerships,and how much can be achieved byworking together, sharing skills, beingcreative, and learning on the job. Thebook is essential reading for planners,architects, engineers, housing providers,lawyers, politicians, environmentalists,community activists, NGOs, andcommunity organizers - all thoseengaged in the processes of planningand managing towns, cities, andsettlements from the very local tonational and international levels.


Partnerships in Urban PlanningA Guide for Municipalities

Nabeel Hamdi and Michael Majale

Based on a three-year project in Kenya,this booklet examines the key features inunderstanding the development ofparticipatory urban planning strategiesand approaches that will assist insafeguarding of the position of poor andvulnerable. The book aims to helpreaders to understand power relations,and comparative advantage as a basisfor deciding on partners; safeguard thepoor and vulnerable in partnershipformation; decide the type ofpartnership in relationship to purpose ;decide the kind of organization to whichthe partnership will lead; ensurepartnerships create organizationalidentity whilst safeguarding thedistinctive identity of individualpartners; sort out levels of partnerrelations in pursuit of both practicaland strategic agendas; understandpartnership capacities interests andpriorities as a basis for partnerselection; assess the advantages ofparticipation and partnership andevaluate risk; and utilise participatoryaction planning methods in order toconverge the interests of stakeholdersand pool resources.


Practitioners and PovertyAlleviationInfluencing urban policy from the groundup

Edited by Sue Jones and Nici Nelson

How can we ensure effective action onurban poverty? How do we bridge thegap between practitioners and thosedeciding policy? There is a seriouscommunication gap between those atthe top who formulate policy and thosebelow who implement it. This book looksat how development institutions aretrying to improve the capacity of"micro-level practitioners" to influencepolicy level decision-making andbudgeting on urban development. Itincludes eight country-based casestudies from which the editors drawguidelines then give pointers on how tocapitalize on past successful linkagesand how to deal successfully withrestraints and gaps. Essential readlingfor practitioners and policy makers inall poverty alleviation work, for donoragencies, NGOs, service providers,community groups, academics andstudents of development.This book makes a particularcontribution to achievingevidence-based pro-poor policy in theurban sector. It is based on eightcountry-based studies. It is ideal forpolicy makers, practitioners, donoragencies, NGOs, service providers,community groups, academics andstudents of development.


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Removing UnfreedomsCitizens as Agents of Change in UrbanDevelopment

Edited by Jane Samuels

This book takes Amartya Sen's conceptof development as freedom and appliesit, for the first time, to the challenges ofurban development across the globe.Cities are the crucial battleground forthe future: they can either becomesettlements of intense poverty andcommunity conflict or the centres ofsocial, economic and politicaldevelopment. The authors argue thatgood governance should be not an end,but the means of delivering greaterfreedom to the inhabitants of a city. Pastmeasures of successful urbandevelopment have related to efficiencyor the provision of services -- indicatorsthat measure the activities of agencies.A new "Freedom Approach" will engagewith local priorities and promote localinitiatives, allowing city dwellersthemselves to determine how awell-functioning city is to be defined.


Sustainable CitiesLocal Solutions in the Global South

Edited by Mélanie Robertson

As urbanization, environmentaldegradation, and poverty becomeincreasingly urgent problems,understanding the links betweensustainability and poverty reduction isimperative. A sustainable urban futurefor all requires raising the quality of lifeof the most vulnerable. Existing at themargins of urban life, low-incomeresidents of cities in the global southare subject to numerous environmentalburdens and are too often excluded frommainstream development and planning.In the face of these challenges,communities have proven to beremarkably resilient and innovative.This book attempts to show how thispotential can be harnessed, byshowcasing sustainable solutionsdeveloped by the urban poor themselvesand present the findings of participatoryaction research projects funded byIDRC’s ECOPOLIS. The studies, conductedin the growing urban and peri-urbanareas of Peru, Senegal, Bangladesh,Ethiopia, the Philippines, Thailand, andthe Democratic Republic of Congo,outline concrete strategies forsustainable urban living and design,developed in partnership with lowincome city dwellers.

The book will be useful and inspiring tostudents, researchers, developmentpractitioners, and policy-makers alike.Published in association with IDRC.


Urban GirlsEmpowerment in especially difficultcircumstances

Gary Barker and Felicia Knaul

This book offers practical approaches toimprove and empower the lives ofat-risk, low-income, urban-based girlsand young women. It does this bypresenting successful projects fromaround the world which clearlydemonstrate what can be done on abroad range of fronts, and answers thetwo key questions: what do at-risk urbangirls and young women need?; what kindof programmes have been successful inmeeting those needs? The book beginswith a comprehensive overview of theplight of young disadvantaged women,and defines who they are, why they needspecial attention and most importantly,the four main contributing factorsworking against these women: poverty,age, gender and ethnicity. In the rest ofthe book, the authors use real casestudies and models based on projectsfrom Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa,South Africa and the USA, and illustratehow they have been successful incombating these four factors andempowering young women against them.These examples include incomegeneration and vocational trainingschemes, formal and non-formaleducation programmes and health andmental well-being programmes. Thebook concludes with important andauthoritative recommendations for bothadvocacy and service delivery workwhich will be essential reading for allagencies working with young women.


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Bridging the Finance Gap inHousing and Infrastructure

Ruth McLeod and Kim Mullard

Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing andInfrastructure concentrates on howgroups of poor people – coalitions of thepoor around the world have been ableand been enabled to lead the process oftransforming slums into vibrant andstable neighbourhoods. It showcasesthe strategies and the dedication,commitment and achievement of onenorthern NGO – Homeless International– as it has pioneered new approaches toanalyzing and helping to arrangefinance for community-led slumupgrading. This is a very encouragingstory. It confirms that the homeless poorin the world’s slums should never bedismissed as the helpless victims ofurbanization.

Technically, this book is valuable for theexplanation of how innovative financingpackages can be arranged for slumupgrading programmes. But primarily, itis about human rights and howinstitutions and organizations respectand help people to realize their rights.


Building Sustainable UrbanSettlementsApproaches and case studies in thedeveloping world

Edited by Sam Romaya and CaroleRakodi

This fascinating book exploresenvironmental, institutional, social andcultural aspects of sustainability in avariety of towns and cities in Asia,Africa, the Middle East and Central andSouth America. The contributors focusparticularly on meeting the needs of theurban poor. The main themes are:urbanenvironmental management withparticular reference to economicactivities and housing achievinginstitutional, social and culturalsustainability managing urbandevelopment processes to reduce theirenvironmental impacts, to improve theproduced built environments andsustain improved practices. Drawing oncase studies of individual cities (Lahore,Shanghai, Medellin, Florianópolis,Hofuf, Cairo) and countries (SouthAfrica, Mozzambique, Iran) as well ascomparative research and analyticalprocedures, the international group ofcontributors evaluate governmentpolicies and practices and makesuggestions for improvements


Communicating forDevelopmentExperience from the urban environment

Edited by Catalina Gandelsonas

Much research on urban development issupply-led - generated by the interests ofdonors and researchers in the Northrather than the needs of poorhouseholds in the growing cities of theSouth, Communicating for Developmentfocuses attention on the mostfundamental of questions aboutdevelopment: how can the lessons ofgood practice and innovation and theresults of research benefit the poor? Thebook offers in-depth discussion abouthow the communication process works -or doesn't work. It questions andchallenges: who are the stakeholders;what are the best vehicles fortransferring knowledge; why are localnetworks and intermediaries soimportant; what can hinder thecommunication process; and how maythese gaps and barriers be overcome?Moreover, the book challengestraditional participatory methods ofrelating to the needs of poor urbancommunities and proposes instead theapplication of new communication andknowledge management methodscurrently used in business management.The contributors examinecommunication from a variety ofperspectives, offering critical analysisand new ideas in relation tocommunication methods.


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Communities andCommunicationBuilding urban partnerships

Patrick Wakely and Elizabeth Riley

The current paradigm of partnership inurban development and management iswidely used and accepted but there islittle understanding of what makespartnerships work or fail. The broadpremise that underpins this book is thata partnership is a relationship based onan agreement to share both benefits andrisks. Three cities, one from eachcontinent of the South, are studied fortheir complementary differences inexperience and approach to localgovernment and communication.Colombo has a long tradition ofgovernment support to communityparticipation in slum upgrading butdoes not have a well-developed urbanNGO movement. Nairobi has awell-organized urban NGO sector but thecity has both a weakdemocratically-elected City Council anda centrally appointed ProvincialAdministration. Rio de Janeiro, which isconsiderably bigger than the other twocities, does not have a tradition ofparticipation and recent municipalupgrading initiatives fail to demonstratemuch meaningful resident involvement.What emerges is a picture ofmisunderstanding, mistrust andprejudice. The authors examine thepotential of clearly focused NGOs togenerate an awareness within andbetween low-income communities andlocal governments for new approachesto communication andcapacity-building.


Confronting the Crisis in UrbanPovertyMaking Integrated Approaches Work

Edited by Lucy Stevens, Stuart Coupeand Diane Mitlin

The challenge of urban poverty isgrowing every year. It is predicted thatover 95% of global population growthbetween 2000 and 2030 will take placein the cities of the developing world. Ifcurrent trends continue, the hugemajority of those will end up in slums.Tackling urban poverty, however, hashad a lower profile than other of theMillennium Development Goals, forexample the one on water – despite theefforts of major players such asUN-Habitat. This book makes a case forapproaches to urban development thatare locally driven and whichcomplement the vast investments andefforts of slum-dwellers themselves. Itdiscusses a range of approaches forachieving that, focusing on practicalexperiences and clear lessons for thefuture. Essential reading fordevelopment practitioners, donors andfunding agencies, academics andstudents interested in NGO-supportedapproaches to urban development.


Contested SpaceStreet Trading, Public Space, andLivelihoods in Developing Countries

Edited by Alison Brown

The importance of public space insupporting city economies and incontributing to poverty reduction israrely recognized. Instead, public spaceis more often an arena for contest –between municipal governments orother vested interests, and streettraders, whose activities are proscribedby restrictive social norms, ambiguouslegal status, street violence, or anofficial response that vacillates betweenindifference and eviction.

Based on a research study in fourdeveloping cities – Dar Es Salaam,Kumasi, Maseru, and Kathmandu –Contested Space explores the survivalstrategies of street traders and theirrelationships with city governments,and examines the practical and policyimplications for pro-poor streetmanagement. This is essential readingfor all those interested in innovative citygovernance, for planners, NGOs,students, academics, and practitionersin Development Studies and UrbanDevelopment.





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Funding Local GovernanceSmall grants for democracy anddevelopment

Jo Beall

International development is repletewith examples of failure. This has led tonotes of cynicism being struck incommentaries on development, whetherin relation to failed states, donorineptitude or the unaccountability ofNGOs. Precisely because the grandvisions have not been realized andmacro-level policies have been socontroversial, attention turned toinitiatives at the local level. However,too many expectations were placed oninterventions at the local level and it didnot take long before they becameformalized, institutionalized andbureaucratized, losing their capacity forrapid response and flexibility. This bookis about an alternative approach.Starting from a critical engagement withtheories of decentralization and areview of social funds, it explores thevalue of funding local initiatives thatare designed not only to supportdevelopment activities but also topromote local democracy. Reviewingexperiences from Africa, Asia, Europeand Latin America, the bookdemonstrates how local funds candeliver development within the contextof a rights-based approach and as acritical component of democraticdecentralization. It will appeal toacademic, professional and practitioneraudiences, people working ininternational development agencies,NGOs and in local government,


Governing CitiesNew institutional forms in developingcountries and transitional economies

Edited by Meine Pieter van Dijk

Urbanization and decentralization areoverwhelming trends in almost everycountry of the world. Together they placea heavy burden on urban managers butat the same time generate tremendousopportunities for institutional change.Governing Cities provides insight intothe effects of these global trends and theinnovative efforts of governments, theprivate sector and communities tocapitalize on the potential they unleashfor improved governance of the citiesthey inhabit. The editors distil anddiscuss the elements contributing to thechanging role of urban management: theprerequisites for and effects ofdecentralization - the importance ofgood governance and attention tocultural diversity - the role andpotential of technological developments- the importance of formulating policiesat city level. Governing Cities analysespractical experiences from formerlyhighly centralized economies of EasternEurope as well as initiatives - bothsuccessful and less successful - incountries as diverse as India, Ethiopia,Indonesia and Brazil.


Planning in CitiesSustainability and growth in thedeveloping world

Edited by Roger Zetter and RodneyWhite

Planning in Cities is an innovativecollection which bridges theory andpractice to explore the conflictingchallenges of the increasingly rapidscale and speed of city growth withproviding effective urban planningpolicies and management strategies.Part One explores the changingparadigms of development andenvironmentalism and how these haveimpacted on the process of urbanizationand the emerging debates on thesustainability of cities. These chaptersreview and elaborate the discourse onsustainability, setting it firmly withinthe context of urbanization anddevelopment. The increasing disjuncturebetween these concepts and thechallenge this presents to the planningof cities in the developing world ishighlighted. Part Two shifts fromdiscourse to practice. Case studiesdrawn from different countries anddifferent urban policy sectorsinvestigate the design andimplementation of planning policiesand ways of improving urbangovernance to support sustainableurban growth. They assess thechallenges and limitations tocapacity-building in the urban sector.Lessons learned from different practicalapproaches are demonstrated andcritiqued. Published in the UrbanManagement Series.





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Urban FuturesEconomic growth and poverty reduction

Nabeel Hamdi

Poverty and economic growth areintrinsically related but are not alwayssynonymous. Human wellbeing is asimportant to economic growth as growthis to wellbeing. Poverty ismulti-dimensional, encompassing bothincome and non-income related factors.Mobility, aspiration, dignity, respect,knowledge, information and savvyfeature importantly in ourunderstanding of the dynamics ofpoverty. This book brings together acollection of essays from around theworld on urban development andpoverty. The book reviews currentinternational research in respect tosome of the major themes thatcontribute to improving the equity andefficiency of urban systems.Importantly, it explores and sets outmethodologies for understandingqualitatively the dynamics of povertyand urban development. Organized intothree parts, the book adopts as itsprincipal theme poverty and theeradication of extreme poverty. Part 1The Dynamics of Poverty and UrbanPoverty Research offers a framework forunderstanding poverty and amethodology for research. Part 2 TheDynamics of Urban Systems includes aselection of country specific essayseach focused on an aspect of urbandevelopment and its relation to poverty.Part 3 Urban Futures reviews theprincipal themes emerging from thechapters and offers a basis for futurework.





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Building Bridges with theGrassrootsScaling Up Through Knowledge Sharing

Theo Schilderman and Otto Ruskulis


Integrated Urban InfrastructureDevelopment in Asia

Edited by Kulwant Singh


Jobs from HousingEmployment, building materials, andenabling strategies for urbandevelopment

Robin Spence, Jill Wells and EricDudley


Land, Rights and InnovationImproving tenure for the urban poor

Geoffrey Payne


Making Common GroundPublic-private partnerships in land forhousing

Edited by Geoffrey Payne


Making MicroplansA community based process inprogramming and development

Nabeel Hamdi and Reinhard Goethert


Planning in CitiesSustainability and growth in thedeveloping world

Edited by Roger Zetter and RodneyWhite


Services for the Urban PoorA select bibliography

Richard Franceys and Andrew Cotton


Shelter, Settlements, Policy andthe PoorAppropriate policies and technologies forlow-income settlements

Reinhard Skinner


Sustainable Development andthe Future of Cities

Edited by Bernd Hamm and PandurangMuttagi


Urban Land Tenure andProperty Rights in DevelopingCountriesA review

Geoffrey Payne


Urban OpportunityThe work of NGOs in cities of the South

Nicolas Hall, Rob Hart and Diana Mitlin


Urban Poverty in AfricaFrom understanding to alleviation

Edited by Sue Jones and Nici Nelson


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Mining

Mining on a Small and MediumScaleA global perspective

Ajoy Ghose


Quarrying and RockbreakingThe Operation and Maintenance of MobilePlants

Derek Lester


Small-scale Gold MiningA manual for Suriname

E H Dahlberg


Small-scale Mining

James F McDivitt


Small-scale Mining, RuralSubsistence, and Poverty inWest Africa

Edited by Gavin Hilson


Small-scale Mining, RuralSubsistence, and Poverty inWest Africa

Edited by Gavin Hilson


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Manufactu

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Appropriate Paper-basedTechnology (APT)A manual

Bevill Packer


Basic BlacksmithingAn introduction to toolmaking

David Harries and Bernhard Heer


The Blacksmith and the FarmerRural manufacturing in sub-SaharanAfrica

David Poston


Blacksmithing Instructors GuideSixteen lesson plans with teaching advice

David Harries


Carpentry ToolmakingAn instructors guide

Aaron Moore


Development of Indian SilkA wealth of opportunities

Sanjay Sinha


Dyeing and PrintingA handbook

John Foulds


Educational Wooden Toys in SriLanka

Tim Godwin


Equipment for Rural Workshops

John Boyd and E Ayok


Fabric ManufactureA handbook

Alan Newton


Planning the Project

Judith Wilkinson


Designing and ProducingArtwork

Judith Wilkinson


Printing Processes

Judith Wilkinson


Managing Resources

Judith Wilkinson


Hot-dip GalvanizingA guide to process selection andgalvanizing practice

M. Hornsby


How to Make a Folding Machinefor Sheet Metal Work

Rob Hitchings


How to Make a Foot-OperatedWorkshop Drill

Paul Smith


How to Make a Hand-OperatedHole-Punch

Ted Stone


How to Make a Metal-BendingMachine

Bob Mann


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How to Make a Pipe-BendingMachine

Michael Walsby


How to Make a Rolling Machinefor Sheet Metal Work

Rob Hitchings


How to Make aTreadle-OperatedWood-Turning Lathe

Bob Ingham


How to Make Carpentry ToolsAn illustrated manual

Aaron Moore and Musaemura Sithole


How to Make Cutting Shears forSheet Metal

Rob Hitchings


How to Make Planes, Crampsand VicesSeven Woodworking Tools

Aaron Moore


How to Make TwelveWoodworking ToolsA Handbook

Aaron Moore


Lost-wax CastingA practitioners manual

Wilburt Feinberg


Low Cost Printing forDevelopmentA printing handbook for Third Worlddevelopment and education

Jonathan Zeitlyn


Low Cost Wooden DuplicatorHow to make it, how to use it

D. Elcock


Made in AfricaLearning from carpentry hand-toolprojects

Andrew Scott, Matthew Taylor andJanet Leek


Making WheelsA technical manual on wheel manufacture

R.A. Dennis


Medical and Hygiene TextileProductionA handbook

Allison Mathews and MartinHardingham


Metal CastingAppropriate technology in the smallfoundry

Steve Hurst


Plant Fibre ProcessingA handbook

Cyril Jarman


Scrap Metal Recovery

Colin Relf


Sericulture and Silk ProductionA handbook

Prabha Shekar and Martin Hardingham


Small Scale Foundries ForDeveloping CountriesA guide to process selection

J.D. Harper


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Small-scale Lime-burningA practical introduction

Michael Wingate


Small-scale Papermaking

Edited by ILO


Small-scale Recycling of Plastics

Jon Vogler


Small-scale SoapmakingA handbook

Peter Donkor


SpinningA handbook

John Foulds


Sten ScreenMaking and using a low-cost printingprocess

Ian McLaren


Traditional CandlemakingSimple methods of manufacture

Deborah Millington


Wood and Woodworking ToolsA handbook

E. Richards


Yarn PreparationA handbook

John A Iredale


Candlemaking for ProfitA practical guide for small-scaleproducers

Robert Aley


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Indigenous KnowledgeInquiriesA methodologies manual fordevelopment programmes and projects

Paul Sillitoe, Peter Dixon and JulianBarr

This manual is for developmentprogramme managers and projectleaders who wish to incorporate anindigenous knowledge element into theirwork. The guidelines acknowledge thatthe design and management ofIK-informed projects involve makingdecisions about many closelyinterrelated issues. They take cost, timeand scope of objectives as the principaldesign issues. The methodology alsodeals with issues of team functioningthat critically inform project success.The guidelines make reference to projectcycle management in the context ofnatural resources indigenous knowledgeresearch, and present options forreducing conflicts and more effectivelyincluding the views of primarystakeholders. Novel topics are covered,such as computer aided analysis ofqualitative data and the use ofcross-cultural research staff. Themethodology is grounded inanthropological and developmentresearch, and attempts to be criticallyaware of contemporary reflectivepractice. Whatever your interest inindigenous knowledge you will find thisbook a fascinating and insightfulhandbook.


Learning EndogenousDevelopmentBuilding on Bio-Cultural Diversity

Edited by COMPAS

Endogenous development places themajor importance in working with localcommunities on using people's ownresources, strategies, and initiatives asthe basis for their development. Itconsiders not only the material, but alsothe socio-cultural and the spiritualresources of people, in order to broadenthe options when formulatingappropriate development paths, withoutromanticizing people's traditionalworldviews and practices. This bookprovides ideas, guidelines, andexamples of how to put endogenousdevelopment into practice. It also showshow field staff can be helped to learn,and how training or learning activitiescan best be organized, to supportendogenous development.



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Biological and Cultural DiversityThe role of indigenous agriculturalexperimentation in development

Edited by Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisakaand D Michael Warren


Cultural Dimension ofDevelopmentIndigenous knowledge systems

D Michael Warren


Facing KirinyagaA social history of forest commons insouthern Mount Kenya

Peter Alfonso Castro


Hometown AssociationsIndigenous knowledge and developmentin Nigeria

Edited by Rex Honey and Stanley IOkafor


Hungry for HopeOn the cultural and communicativedimensions of development in highlandEcuador

Carmen Hess


Indigenous KnowledgeDevelopment in BangladeshPresent and Future

Paul Sillitoe


Indigenous Organizations andDevelopment

Edited by Peter Blunt and D MichaelWarren


Intercropping and the ScientificBasis of Traditional Agriculture

Donald Innis


Juremas Children in the Forestof SpiritsHealing and ritual among two Brazilianindigenous groups

Clarice Novaes Da Mota


Nature is CultureIndigenous knowledge and socio-culturalaspects of trees and forests innon-European cultures

Edited by Klaus Seeland


Technology ChoiceA critique of the Appropriate Technologymovement

Kelvin Willoughby


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Technology

Appropriate Technology forRural DevelopmentThe ITDG Experience

Derek Miles


AT ReaderThe theory and practice of appropriatetechnology

Marilyn Carr


Connecting the First MileInvestigating Best Practices for ICTs andInformation Sharing for Development

Surmaya Talyarkhan, David Grimshawand Lucky Lowe


Cutting Edge Technologies andMicrocomputer Applications forDeveloping Countries

Edited by BOSTID


Developing Technologies forthe Rural Poor

Stephen Biggs and Ruth Alsop


Digital PovertyLatin American and CaribbeanPerspectives

Edited by Hernan Galperin and JudithMariscal


Economically AppropriateTechnologies for DevelopingCountriesAn annotated bibliography

Marilyn Carr


Economies of SmallAppropriate technology in a changingworld

Raphael Kaplinsky


A Guide to AppropriateTechnology Institutions

Angela Sinclair


Industrial Employment throughAppropriate Technology

Alan Bollard


Intermediate Technology inBotswana

Marilyn Carr


Intermediate Technology inIndonesia

Anton Kruft


Intermediate Technology inPapua New Guinea

Marilyn Carr

1985 • 20 pagesISBN 9781853393587 Pamphlet£9.95 • €14.95 • $19.95

Intermediate TechnologyTransfer UnitA handbook on operations

John Powell


Introductory TechnologyA resource book for teachers

Adrian Owens


Island Technology

Tony Marjoram


Management of TechnologicalChange

Donnacadh Hurley and MatthewGamser


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Mobilizing AppropriateTechnologyPapers on planning aid programmes

Edited by Matthew Gamser


More Innovations ForDevelopment

Gillis Een


No Condition PermanentPump-priming Ghanas industrialrevolution

Ian Smillie


One Hundred Innovations ForDevelopment

Edited by Sten Joste and Een Gillis


Package DealsA study of technology development andtransfer

Ken Marshall


Science and TechnologyCouncilProblems and prospects in Botswana

Norman Clark


Science, Technology andDevelopment

Atul Wad


Small and Medium EnterprisesTechnology policies and options

Edited by A Bhalla


Technological Transformation ofRural India

A. Reddy and A S Bhalla


Technological Upgrading ofService InstitutionsLessons from Asia

Tue Kell Nielsen


Technology Development inRural IndustriesA study of China's collectives

Hannah Piek


Technology for a ChangingWorld

John Davis and Edited by RogerEngland


Technology TransferNine case studies

Sosthenes Buatsi


Telecentres, Access, andDevelopment:Experience and Lessons from Ugandaand South Africa

Sarah Parkinson


Tinker, Tiller, Technical ChangeTechnologies from the people

Edited by Matthew Gamser, HelenAppleton and Nicola Carter


Using Technical Skills inCommunity DevelopmentAn analysis of VSOs experience

Jonathan Dawson and Edited by MogBall


Appropriate TechnologyInstitutionsA Review

Richard Whitcombe and Marilyn Carr


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Appropriate TechnologyInstitutionsA directory

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Environment

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Climate Change and the KyotoProtocols Clean DevelopmentMechanismStories from the developing world

Margie Orford

Global warming and climate changepose a dire threat to life, demandingurgent global action. The Kyoto Protocolis the United Nations treaty committingsignatories to dealing with climatechange by reducing greenhouse gasemissions. The Clean DevelopmentMechanism, Article 12 of the Protocol, isa complex trade mechanism which isunique in its promotion of sustainabledevelopment. It gives rich and poorcountries the opportunity to combineforces through projects in thedeveloping world. Climate Change is anon-technical account of what inspirespeople to transform the dry language ofthis international climate change treatyinto measurable improvements inpeople's lives. The projects describedhave reduced the emission ofgreenhouse gases through sustainabledevelopment in four countries: Brazil,Bangladesh, Indonesia and South Africa.This book shows how the elegantcreativity of science can be combinedwith the delightful unpredictability ofpolitics and human behaviour. Thesestories come to life through akaleidoscope of colour photographs andchildren's artwork. This beautifullyillustrated, inspirational book bringsthe case studies to life and shows whatcan be achieved by small groups withthe desire and the know-how.


Climate Change andThreatened CommunitiesVulnerability, Capacity, and Action

Edited by A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylorand David W. Brokensha

Global climate changedisproportionately affects rural peopleand indigenous groups, but their rights,knowledge, and interests concerning itare generally unacknowledged. Shifts inprecipitation, cloud cover, temperature,and other climatic patterns alter theirlivelihood pursuits and culturallandscapes, accentuating their existingsocial and economic marginalization.This book argues that planners andresearchers of climate changemitigation and adaptation must takeinto account the knowledge andcapacity of rural people, and engagethem as active participants in the designand governance of interventions, not asa matter of courtesy, but because it istheir right. This book documents thecapacities and constraints to beencountered among communities facingchanging climates in Bangladesh,Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia,India, Indonesia, Italy, Malawi, Mexico,Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Sudan,United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Itexplores human interactions inenvironments ranging from subarctictundra to equatorial rain forest, fromoceanic lagoons to inland mountains. Itis important reading for policy makersand academics in climate changeadaptation, anthropology anddevelopment studies.


Just One PlanetPoverty, Justice and Climate Change

D. Mark Smith

The impacts of climate change are beingfelt all around the world and as theybecome more damaging andwidespread, it is the 2.7 billion peoplein the world who live on less than $2 aday who will be hit first and hardest.The carbon emissions fuelling thelifestyles of people in the North arecausing changes in the patterns of theseasons. Rainfall, flooding, and droughtare threatening to make the gap betweenrich and poor in the world wider, andthe UN Millennium Development Goalsunattainable. Lament is not good enough- we must take action. Based on analysisof the evidence for climate change andthe vulnerability of poor people, thisbook develops a framework for actionand makes clear the link betweenconsumer and political choices in theNorth, and impacts in the South on themost vulnerable people on the planet.Just One Planet is essential reading foranyone who wants to get behind thescare stories to reach a well-informedand detailed understanding of climatechange, and to find out what actionneeds to be taken, now. This book alsoprovides an indispensable reference forNGOs, government policy advisors,researchers, students, and specialists inthe areas of Development, Climate, andEnvironmental Studies.


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More People, More TreesEnvironmental Recovery in Africa

William Critchley

Over 20 years ago, concerned famers’groups in Kenya and Burkina Faso beganto adopt new measures to conserve soiland water and to re-establish trees intheir fields. Two videos, Looking afterour Land and Building on Traditions,recorded the new participatoryapproaches for land conservation beingdeveloped at that time in variouscountries. More People, More Treesreturns to the same communities, andsome of the same people, in Kenya andBurkina Faso to document developmentssince the original filming. The filmshows spectacular changes: mostobviously more trees planted andprotected by the people themselvesaided and encouraged by continuingcommunity projects. More People, MoreTrees thus highlights a demonstrablesuccess story for communityparticipation in agricultural change inBurkina Faso and Kenya. In this film, thelandscapes tell their own story, but sodo the local people. The accompanyingbook expounds upon the powerfulmessages in the film and describes thetechnologies employed by thecommunities, provides hard data tosupport their testimonies, and looks atthe current challenges of soilconservation in the context of climatechange.

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Uncertain FuturesAdapting development to a changingclimate

Jonathan Ensor

Community-based adaptation is a newconcept whose meaning is still to befully understood. Most agree thatcommunities should be supported torespond to the challenges they face, andsome see this as the goal ofcommunity-based adaptation. Bycontrast, Uncertain Futures proposesthat community-based adaptation mustalso address inevitable futureuncertainty by supporting the ongoingability to change. In this view, attentionis focused on adaptive capacity, throughwhich communities are able to makechanges to their lives and livelihoods inresponse to emerging environmentalchange. Uncertain Futures argues thatas greenhouse gas emissions continueto accumulate, a ‘business as usual’approach to development practice isincreasingly inadequate and theimportance of securing adaptivecapacity becomes more urgent.Uncertain Futures examines thischallenge, and invites readers to rethinkdevelopment policy and practice interms of how adaptive capacity can bebest supported. This book should beread by the staff of donor agencies,policy makers, NGO practitioners,academics and students of developmentstudies and the environment.


Understanding Climate ChangeAdaptationLessons from community-basedapproaches

Jon Ensor and Rachel Berger

Poor people bear the brunt of climatechange since they live in those regionsmost affected by fluctuatingtemperatures, sea level rise, floodingand drought. Far from behaving asvictims, however, they use the assetsand resources at their disposal to adaptand survive. 'Understanding Adaptationto Climate Change' combines studiesfrom south Asia, Africa and LatinAmerica. The analysis demonstrates thatalthough communities’ adaptationstrategies may be varied and depend onlocal context, social networks play apivotal role in accessing appropriateclimate knowledge and resources andcommunicating useful approaches toother communities. The key activities ofreducing vulnerability, fosteringresilience and developing the capacityto experiment and learn are combinedas appropriate. This book asks, how canagencies assist local communitiesadapting to change? By whatmechanisms can communities make themost of emerging information? Caneffective community-based approachesbe scaled up? This book is essentialreading for NGO practitioners, studentsand government and NGO policy makerswho wish to gain an understanding ofwhat adaptation means in theory andpractice.





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Charcoal DilemmaFinding a sustainable solution forBrazilian industry

F Rosillo-Calle


Communities, Livelihoods, andNatural ResourcesAction Research and Policy Change inAsia

Edited by Stephen Tyler


Hands On Energy, Infrastructureand Recycling

Emma Judge


Hands On Food, Water andFinance

Emma Judge


Jobs from Junks

Jon Vogler


Linking with FarmersNetworking for Low-External-Input andSustainable Agriculture

Edited by Carine Alders, BertusHaverkort and Laurens van Veldhuizen


Living with WildlifeSustainable livelihoods for park-adjacentcommunities in Kenya

Stuart Coupe, Viv Lewis, Zadoc Ogutuand Cathy Watson


Miombo Ecology andManagementAn introduction

Emmanuel Chidumayo


Sustainable IndustrialDevelopment

Marilyn Carr


Work from WasteRecycling wastes to create employment

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Energy

Capacity Development forScaling up DecentralizedEnergy AccessLessons from Nepal on its role, costs,and financing

Elisabeth Clemens, Kamal Rijal andMinoru Takada

Micro hydro power is ideally suited tomeeting the energy needs of remotecommunities.A national micro hydroprogramme has been operating for morethan a decade in Nepal. Similarly afuel-wood-conserving cooking stovesprogramme has been operating in Nepalfor decades. Capacity development forscaling up decentralized energy accessprogrammes describes these twoprogrammes and takes an in-depth lookat the role of capacity development inscaling up from pilot projects tonational programmes. Although it takesconsiderable upfront public investmentto kick-start capacity development, oncethese investments have been made theycan attract substantial financing fromprivate sources at later programmestages. It also explores potential futuretrends in programme costs andfinancing sources. It makes the case forupfront public investments to developnational and local capacities forscaling up rural energy servicesdelivery, and to catalyse privatefinancing. The book provides aninvaluable guide for decision makers,development practitioners, policyanalysts, and programme planners.


Decentralized Energy Accessand the MillenniumDevelopment GoalsAn analysis of the development benefitsof micro hydropower in rural Nepal

Gwénaëlle Legros, Kamal Rijal andBahareh Seyedi

Decentralized, off-grid power suppliessuch as micro hydropower can beperceived as expensive investments bypoor countries like Nepal. Can theseinvestments be justified by the benefitsthat electricity brings to villages inremote mountainous regions? This bookdescribes research into the developmentgains brought to such villages,measured in terms of progress towardsachieving the millennium developmentgoals. Indicators relating to income,education, gender equality, maternaland child health and environmentalimpact were measured in villagesbenefiting from micro hydropower,compared with neighbouring villageswithout an electricity supply.Decentralized Energy Access and theMillennium Development Goalsprovides conclusive evidence of thesetransformative benefits andrecommends that Nepal, and countrieslike it, scale up investments in itsmicrohydropower programme.

Published in association with UNDP andAEP, Nepal.


Delivering Energy forDevelopment

Raffaella Bellanca, Ewan Bloomfield,Kavita Rai, Mattia Vianello, EmmaWilson and Annabel Yadoo

At the outset of 2012 – the UnitedNations’ International Year ofSustainable Energy for All – access tomodern energy services remains low ornon-existent for approximately **billion of the world’s population. Energypractitioners worldwide are facing thechallenge of delivering access tomodern energy services where povertyand lack of infrastructure makes it mostdifficult. Rising awareness aboutclimatic change and the notion of energysecurity for future generations are alsobeing channelled into the debate. Thisbook aims to provide an overview ofexisting energy delivery systems, as wellas a guide to practitioners on the keyissues integral to the success or failureof energy programmes in middle- andlow-income countries. The authorsconsider how markets develop, whichservices are pivotal in supporting theprocess, and what overarching factorsenable change to take place. The aim ofthe book is to provide practicalguidance on how to replicate and scaleup the successful delivery of energy tothe very poor and is expected to be ofuse for energy development policymakers and practitioners.


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Designing and Building Miniand Micro Hydro PowerSchemes

Luis Rodriguez and Teodoro Sanchez

Small hydro power installations havethe potential to provide a renewablesupply of energy to people in remote,hilly communities, far from the nationalgird. This book is based on the authors'considerable experience of installinghydroelectric schemes that produce upto 500kW for powering smallcommunities. The book describes notonly the electro-mechanical equipmentand how it is installed, but also thecorrect setting of the installation andhow to design and build the channelsleading up to the turbine so as tooptimize performance. These civil workscan be carried out by local manpower,using materials that are usuallyavailable locally. Chapters cover themain components of small hydroelectricplants from the intake and the headracechannel, via the conveyance channel, tothe forebay tank, penstock, turbine, andgenerator. This practical manual is amajor new addition to the resourcesavailable for micro-hydro power projectand programme managers worldwideand represents excellent value for sucha detailed technical referencehandbook.


Expanding Energy Access inDeveloping CountriesThe role of mechanical power

UNDP and Practical Action Consulting

Mechanical power has long beenrecognised as crucial for some of themost fundamental services required forhuman development. For centuries,water pumping, food processing, andmanufacturing , amongst otherproductive uses, have been enhanced bythe application of mechanical power.Recent technological advances inmechanical power have furtherenhanced productivity and reduced thedrudgery of human labour associatedwith these tasks. However, in spite of theundoubted importance of mechanicalpower in meeting every day energy needsat a local level, it is generallyunder-appreciated to the point thatthere is an almost complete lack ofofficial data and documentation of itsrole. Expanding Energy Access inDeveloping Countries surveys the varietyof mechanical power applications andoptions available, and argues that theyshould be given more consideration bypolicy makers and practitionersresponsible for improving energy accessfor poor communities worldwide. Thispublication will be of interest to anyoneseeking an overview of mechanicalpower and its use in pro-poordevelopment work and should berequired reading for programmeplanners at national and local level.


A Handbook of Small-scaleEnergy TechnologiesPractical Answers

Edited by Neil Noble

Gaining access to modern forms ofenergy remains a crucial butunder-recognised aspect of povertyreduction in the Global South. PracticalAction has long been recognised as aleading authority on energy access, withdecades of development programme andproject experience worldwide uponwhich to base its policy and practicerecommendations. To mark the UN Yearof Energy in 2012, Practical Action ispublishing some of its best practicalbriefings and case study material for thebenefit of energy developmentpractitioners around the world. AHandbook of Small-scale EnergyTechnologies collects together in asingle handy volume the best ofPractical Action’s briefing papers on thegeneration, delivery and use of energy.From decentralized energy solutionssuch as micro-hydro to improvedwood-burning stoves, the briefs arebased on technologies adoptedsuccessfully in a range of countries andover many years. Each of the briefingspresented in this book has been drawnup by technical experts in the subjectand incorporates the lessons acquiredfrom many years of learning and review.This is the first in a new series ofPractical Answers handbooks thatprovide brief how-to guides on a varietyof practical subjects for internationaldevelopment workers.


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The Hidden Energy CrisisHow policies are failing the world's poor

Teodoro Sanchez

Billions of people worldwide arewithout access to clean, modern energy,which leads to drudgery, ill health andsometimes death. Although a lack ofadequate energy affects people's healthand well-being, as well as theirproductive and educational capacities,addressing this deficit is a low priorityfor governments and donor agencies.The Hidden Energy Crisis outlines whywe have failed so far to extend energyaccess to the world's poor, and suggestsoperating models that have greaterpotential to make a difference. It arguesthat meeting the basis needs of theworld's energy poor will not make asignificant difference to global carbonemissions. However, it will take asignificant effort and finance frominternational donors, multinational andnational governments to scale upsuccessful pilot projects dramatically tomake a significant impact on the poor.The book presents a call to action toaddress the energy crisis. It should beread by policy makers in governmentsand donor agencies, as well asacademics, students and programmemanagers.


Motors as Generators forMicro-hydro Power

Edited by Nigel Smith

This is a guide to the use of inductionmotors for electricity generation inremote locations. It is written as apractical handbook for engineers andtechnicians involved in designing andinstalling small water-power schemesfor isolated houses and communities.This revised edition brings in newconcepts developed and tested toexpand the power range of applicationof motors as generators, to make thistechnology safer and more reliable,while keeping costs low and making itaccessible to developing countries. Italso contains a new chapter onmains-connecting micro-hydrogenerators. This edition also draws onthe practical experience ofmanufacturers and installers ofinduction generator units working invillage locations in a large number ofcountries, among them Sri Lanka, Nepal,Peru, Kenya and others.



Practical Action

The issue of energy access as adevelopment issue is now high on theinternational political agenda,following the UN Year of SustainableEnergy for All in 2012. However, in manycountries energy has yet to be effectivelyintegrated with health, education andother community service sectors andrecognised for the critical role it playsin delivering broader developmentbenefits.The Poor People’s EnergyOutlook (PPEO) focuses on what mattersto poor people. It prioritises theirperspectives and those of practitionersworking with them. The PPEO 2013, thethird in the series, focusses ondelivering energy for communityservices, with analysis of thecontribution improved energy servicesand supply can make to health,education and infrastructure servicessuch as water and street lighting. ThePPEO 2013 will be of interest to anyoneseeking to better understand theinteraction between energy access andcommunity services. It should berequired reading for the internationalenergy sector and developmentpractitioners seeking a greaterunderstanding of energy access in thecontext of other areas of expertise.


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Chinese Biogas ManualPopularising technology in the countryside

Edited by Ariane van Buren


Cook ElectricThe Ghandruk experience

Janet Bell


Electricity in Households andMicroenterprises

Joy Clancy


Electricity Services in RemoteRural CommunitiesThe Small Enterprise Model

Teodoro Sanchez


Energy and EnvironmentTechnology Source BooksFour-volume set

Edited by UNIFEM


Energy DimensionA practical guide to energy in ruraldevelopment programmes

Christopher Hurst


Energy Efficiency for Small andMedium Enterprises

Elizabeth Muguti


Energy For Rural LivelihoodsA framework for sustainable decisionmaking

Alison Doig, Yacob Mulugetta, SimonDunnett, Tim Jackson, Smail Khennasand Kavita Rai


Energy OptionsAn introduction to small-scale renewableenergy technologies

Edited by Drummond Hislop


Farmers, Forests and FuelTowards a new biomass energy strategyfor Sri Lanka

Mick Howes and Pandula Endagama


Financing Renewable EnergyProjectsA guide for development workers

Jenniy Gregory, Semida Silveira,Anthony Derrick, Paul Cowley,Catherine Alinson and Oliver Parish


Hands On Energy, Infrastructureand Recycling

Emma Judge


Improved Wood Waste andCharcoal Burning StovesA practitioners manual

Bill Stewart


Kenya Ceramic JikoA manual for stovemakers

Hugh Allen


Low-cost ElectrificationAffordable electricity installation forlow-income households in developingcountries

Nigel Smith


Micro-Hydro Design ManualA guide to small-scale water powerschemes

Adam Harvey


Micro-Hydro Electric PowerTechnical papers 1

Ray Holland


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Micro-hydro Pelton TurbineManualDesign, manufacture and installation forsmall-scale hydropower

Jeremy Thake


Micro-hydro PowerA guide for development workers

Peter Fraenkel, Oliver Parish, VarisBolkalders and Adam Harvey


Modern Stoves for All

Waclaw Micuta


Power from the PeopleInnovation, user participation, and forestenergy programmes

Matthew Gamser


Power GuideAn international catalogue of small-scaleenergy equipment

Peter Fraenkel and Wim Hulscher


A Practical Guide to SolarPhotovoltaic Systems forTechniciansSizing, installation and maintenance

Jean-Paul Louineau


Pumps as TurbinesA users guide

Arthur Williams


Renewable EnergyTechnologies

L.A. Kristoferson and V Bokalders


Running a Biogas ProgrammeA handbook

David Fulford


Rural Energy ServicesA handbook for sustainable energydevelopment

Teresa Anderson, Alison Doig, DaiRees and Smail Khennas


Rural LightingA guide for development workers

Jean-Paul Louineau


Rural TransportEnergy and Environment TechnologySource Books

Edited by UNIFEM


Small Hydro Power in China

Edited by Hangzhou Regional Centre


Small Wind Systems for RuralEnergy Services

Smail Khennas, Hugh Piggott andSimon Dunnett


Smoke - the Killer in the KitchenIndoor air pollution in developingcountries

Hugh Warwick and Alison Doig


Solar Energy for RuralCommunitiesThe case of Namibia

Gil Yaron, Tani Forbes Irving and SvenJansson


Solar Heating in Cold RegionsA technical guide to developing countryapplications

Jean-François Rozis


Solar Photovoltaic ProductsA guide for development workers

Anthony Derrick


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Solar-Powered ElectricityA survey of solar photovoltaic power indeveloping countries

Bernard McNelis


Stove Maker, Stove UserFuel-efficient stoves in Sri Lanka

Val Rea and Mike Martin


Stoves for PeopleProceedings of the second internationalworkshop on stove dissemination

Edited by Roberto Caceres


Turning off the LightsThe threat to community electricity in SriLanka

Stephen Thomas and Iromi RuanaRajepakse


Upgrading Micro Hydro in SriLanka

Drummond Hislop


Water Supply

Vijita Fernando


WindpumpsA guide for development workers

Peter Fraenkel


Wood Stove Dissemination

Edited by Robin Clarke


The Stove Project ManualPlanning and implementation

S Joseph, Y Shanahan and W Stewart



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Achieving Water SecurityLessons from research in water supply,sanitation, and hygiene in Ethiopia

Edited by Roger Calow, Eva Ludi andJosephine Tucker

Achieving water security remains anelusive goal yet the benefits of investingin water, sanitation and hygiene toachieve basic water security andalleviate poverty are clear. Householdsbenefit through a range of livelihoodimpacts; economies benefit from greatereconomic activity and over thelonger-term, households and economiesbenefit through greater resilience toclimate change and shocks. So why aregovernments and their developmentpartners struggling to meet water andsanitation targets? What factors make itdifficult to sustain services at scale?And how can policies and plans fordelivering and sustaining services forpoor people be strengthened in the faceof multiple pressures, including climatechange? This book addresses thesequestions and draws conclusions forpolicy and practice, linking findingswith current international debates onservice delivery in rural areas. Thisbook should be read by governmentagencies, donor organisations andNGOs, as well as academics andresearchers in the water, sanitation andhygiene sector. Published in associationwith ODI.


The Challenges of UrbanEcological SanitationLessons from the Erdos Eco-TownProject, China

Arno Rosemarin, Jennifer McConville,Amparo Flores and Zhu Qiang

The need for improved sanitationaround the world is becoming a crisis,and the situation is particularly criticalin urban and peri-urban areas indeveloping countries. Here thepopulation is growing rapidly, andwhere sanitation is provided, the meansto treat and dispose of waste safely isneglected, with huge environmental andpublic health consequences. Sanitationsolutions are needed that are safe forthe user and interlinked with otherurban services which can treat waste asa resource. This book describes anattempt to create modern, multi-storeyurban dwellings that incorporateecological sanitation into their design,resulting in a clean living space, andderiving safe agricultural inputs fromhuman organic waste. The bookhighlights the experience ofimplementing the Erdos Eco-TownProject in Inner Mongolia, China. Thisremains the largest urban project ofurine-diversion dry toilets in the worldand describes the technical design,daily operation and maintenance, costsand benefits compared to conventionalsystems, as well as the challenges inachieving acceptability with users.Published in association withStockholm Environment Institute.


Every Last DropRainwater harvesting and sustainabletechnologies in rural China

Zhu Qiang, Li Yuanhong and JohnGould

Over the past two decades a quietrevolution has been taking place in thecountryside of China where hundreds ofmillions of people have been lifted outof poverty. This book focuses on some ofthe practical actions and clever use ofappropriate technologies which havebeen at the heart of this positivegrassroots-driven change in rural GansuProvince. Key to this has beenmobilizing the population and theirexpeditious use of rainwater harvestingboth to dramatically improve cropyields and provide households withreliable domestic water supplies. SinceGansu is semi-arid and stored rainwatera scarce resource, ingenious systems ofproviding crops with just the rightamount of supplementary irrigation atcritical periods have been developed.Challenges such as lack of fuelwoodhave been overcome by the developmentof simple low-cost solar cookers; theconstruction of low-cost greenhousesallows for the collection of rainwaterand its use in efficient drip irrigationsystems. The real significance of thiscase study is that most of theapproaches described are based onuniversal principles of sustainabledevelopment.This book is recommendedreading for engineers, planners, staff ofNGOs, academics and students in thewater, energy, and agriculture sectors.


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Greywater Use in the MiddleEastTechnical, social, economic and policyissues

Edited by Stephen McIlwaine andMark Redwood

In water-scarce areas of the MiddleEast, greywater (household wastewaterexcluding toilet waste) is commonlyused by poor communities to irrigatehome gardens. This both supplementsthe water available to the householdand improves food security. This bookdraws together material presented at aconference in Jordan in 2007, andexamines the technical approaches totreating and using greywater forirrigation, including its associated risksto health and the environment. Itdiscusses many of the non-technicalissues that influence effectiveness andsustainability of greywater use. It alsotakes a hard look at economic issues,arguing that more clarity andconsistency from policymakers isessential if low-income, water-stressedcommunities are to make better andsafer use of their existing watersupplies. The book concludes by offeringsuggestions for where donor efforts andresearch could best be focused in thenear future.Greywater use in the MiddleEast is important reading forresearchers, donors, implementingagencies, and policymakers, in the fieldsof water supply, water reuse, livelihoodsand agriculture.


Shit MattersThe potential of community-led totalsanitation

Edited by Lyla Mehta and SynneMovik

Sanitation remains one of the biggestdevelopment challenges of our time, anda long neglected issue associated withtaboos and stigma. Despite growingattention and efforts, many top-downapproaches to sanitation have failed,reflecting that simply providing peoplewith a toilet does not necessarilyguarantee its use. The Community-LedTotal Sanitation (CLTS) approach offersa more promising alternative, focusingon facilitating a profound change inpeople’s behaviour throughparticipatory techniques. By raisinglocal people’s awareness of the linkagesbetween open defecation and diseasethrough the release of powerfulemotions such as disgust and shame,they are encouraged to analyse theirown sanitation situation and takeaction themselves. The approach hasproved immensely successful, beingimplemented in more than 20 countries,and has a big potential in terms ofachieving several MillenniumDevelopment Goals. However, like anydevelopment success story challengesstill remain regarding scaling up withquality, inclusion of the poorest andsustainability and there is a danger thataccounts of success may beexaggerated. This book addresses boththe potential and challenges of CLTS bydrawing on research in Bangladesh,India and Indonesia as well asexperiences from Africa.


Supporting Rural Water SupplyMoving towards a Service DeliveryApproach

Harold Lockwood and Stef Smits

Collectively, billions of dollars havebeen invested in the provision of ruralwater supply systems in developingcountries over the past three decades.Although progress is being made andrates of coverage are increasing, usersoften find that, once installed, watersupply systems are poorly maintainedand eventually break down, leavingthem with an unreliable and disruptedwater supply. Supporting Rural WaterSupply takes a critical look and askswhy we have been unable to provide asustainable water service to ruralpeople for so long? What are the criticalsuccess factors in the areas where therehas been good progress? How can wesupport the adoption of a servicedelivery approach to rural water supply– one that moves beyond implementinginfrastructure projects to delivering areliable and indefinite service? Thisbook brings together findings from 13country studies which were carried outas part of a global learning initiative –Sustainable Services at Scale, orTriple-S. It offers insights into wayscountries and individual organisationscan move towards a service deliveryapproach step by step. Published inassociation with IRC.





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Toilets That Make CompostLow-cost, sanitary toilets that producevaluable compost for crops in an Africancontext

Peter Morgan

Most People in rural Africa do not haveaccess to safe toilets and their healthand well-being suffers as aconsequence. There is an urgent need forthe construction of simple, low-cost,affordable toilets that are easy to buildand maintain. Toilets that makecompost provides practical examples oftoilets that, in addition to providing asafe sanitation option, also recycle thenutrients in excreta to produce compost.This compost is valued whereverwherever households have enoughspace to grow fruit and vegetables intheir back gardens; the designs aresuitable for regions where there is nohigh water table or prolonged wetseason. This book provides detailedinstructions for constructing a range oftoilets from the simplest and mostaffordable to the more sophisticatedecological toilet.


Water Lifting DevicesA Handbook

Peter Fraenkel and Jeremy Thake

This is an updated and expanded newedition (formerly Water PumpingDevices), surveying the water-liftingtechnologies that are available andappropriate for smallholdings. Itexamines the costs and generalsuitability of the different technologiesto enable farmers and policy makers tomake informed choices.More than onebillion people still do not have access tosafe drinking water, and almost twobillion people suffer from diseasesarising from contaminated water due topoor sanitation. Irrigation is essentialfor the basic food requirements ofbillions of people. The growing worldpopulation and global climate changemake the challenges of providingadequate clean water, sanitation, andfood ever more pressing. At the heart ofeffective irrigation lies the problem oflifting or pumping water. This handbookprovides a detailed review of thewater-lifting technologies available forirrigation, along with new informationcovering the provision of drinking waterfor humans and livestock. Water LiftingDevices has long been the authority onthe subject and this new third editionprovides updated essential practicalinformation for farmers, developmentworkers, and all who need to makeinformed choices about water liftingtechnologies.


Water Supply and SanitationServices for the Rural PoorThe Gram Vikas Experience

Pamela Keirns

Safe drinking water near to the homeand adequate household sanitationsave poor households time, reduceillness and increase a sense of wellbeing and dignity. Gram Vikas, anon-government organization working inone of the poorest states in India,recognized this key role and encouragedvillages to agree to a pact - water andsanitation for every house in the village- in return for labour and a percentageof the costs.Fundamental to the process was agrowing sense of empowerment, so thatonce the building was finished wholevillages were ignited to drive their owndevelopment projects. This bookdescribes how Gram Vikas engaged withnew villages and carried out theprogramme, how costs were met by thehouseholds, government and donors,and the resulting impacts onhealth,education and livelihoods.Finally the question is asked: can thisinternational award-winning approachbe scaled - up to increase sustainablecoverage of water and sanitation andcombat poverty worldwide?





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Affordable Water Supply andSanitation

Edited by John Pickford, Peter Barker,Adrian Load and Tom Dijkstra


Buried Pipelines for SurfaceIrrigation

Robert van Bentum and Ian Smout


Chinese Chain and WasherPumps

Simon Watt


Community Water, CommunityManagementFrom system to service in rural areas

Ton Schouten


Community Water Development

Edited by Charles Kerr


Community Water SupplyThe handpump option

Saul Arlosoroff


Crops, People and IrrigationWater allocation practices of farmers andengineers

Edited by Geert Diemer and FransHuibers


Developing GroundwaterA guide for rural water supply

Alan MacDonald


Development DialogueRainwater harvesting in Turkana

Adrian Cullis and Arnold Pacey


Dictionary of Water Engineering

K.D. Nelson


Ferrocement Water Tanks andtheir Construction

Simon Watt


Field Hydrology in TropicalCountriesA practical introduction

Henry Gunston


Groundwater Dams forSmall-Scale Water Supply

Åke Nilsson


Hand Dug Wells and theirConstruction

Simon Watt and W E Wood


Hand Pump Maintenancein the Context of Community Well Projects

Edited by Pacey


Handbook of Gravity-Flow WaterSystems

Thomas Jordan


Hill IrrigationWater and development in mountainagriculture

Linden Vincent


How to Build a Cretan SailWindpump

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How to Make a Rope andWasher Pump

Robert Lambert


How to Make and Use theTreadle Irrigation Pump

Carl Bielenberg and Hugh Allen


Human and Animal-poweredWater Lifting Devices

Bill Kennedy


Hydraulic Ram PumpsA guide to ram pump water supplysystems

T. Jeffrey


Latrine BuildingA handbook to implementing the Sanplatsystem

Bjorn Brandberg


Low-Cost SanitationA survey of practical experience

John Pickford


A Manual on the Hydraulic Ramfor Pumping Water

Simon Watt


Modern Irrigation Technologiesfor Smallholders in DevelopingCountries

Gez Cornish


Negotiating Water Rights

Edited by Bryan Randolph Bruns andRuth Meinzen-Dick


Operation and Maintenance ofSmall Irrigation Schemes

Peter H Stern


Productive Water Points inDryland AreasGuidelines on integrated planning for ruralwater supply

Chris Lovell


Rainwater Catchment Systemsfor Domestic SupplyDesign, Construction and Implementation

Edited by John Gould and ErikNissen-Petersen


Rainwater HarvestingThe collection of rainfall and runoff in ruralareas

Arnold Pacey


Running WaterMore technical briefs for health, water andsanitation

Rod Shaw


Rural SanitationPlanning and appraisal

Arnold Pacey


Septic Tanks and Aquapriviesfrom Ferrocement

Simon Watt


Small-scale Irrigation

Peter Stern


Small-Scale Water SupplyA review of technologies

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Solar PumpingAn introduction and update on thetechnology, performance, costs andeconomics

Roy Barlow


Solar Water PumpingA handbook

Jeff Kenna and Bill Gillet


Storm DrainageAn engineering guide to the low-costevaluation of system performance

Pete Kolsky


Surface Water Treatment forCommunities in DevelopingCountries

Christopher Schultz


Sustainability of Water andSanitation Systems

John Pickford


Sustainable SewerageGuidelines for community schemes

R.A. Reed


Urban SanitationA guide to strategic planning

Kevin Tayler, Jonathan Parkinson andJeremy Colin


Water and Sanitation for AllPartnerships and innovations



Water Current TurbinesA fieldworkers guide

Peter Garman


Water Pumping DevicesA handbook for users and choosers

Peter Fraenkel


Water, Sanitation, Environmentand Development



Water SellersA co-operative venture by the rural poor

Geoffrey Wood


Water Supplies for RuralCommunities

Colin Ball


Water Treatment and SanitationA handbook of simple methods for ruralareas in developing countries

H.T. Mann and D Williamson


Windpumping Handbook

Sarah Lancashire, Jeff Kenna and PeterFraenkel


Women and Water-Pumps inBangladeshThe impact of participation in irrigationgroups on women's status

Barbara van Koppen


Worth of WaterTechnical briefs on health, water andsanitation

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Cities, Poverty and FoodMulti-Stakeholder Policy and Planning inUrban Agriculture

Marielle Dubbeling, Henk de Zeeuwand René van Veenhuizen

The numbers of the urban poor are onthe increase; at the same time theirposition has been made morevulnerable by the recent food andeconomic crises. City authorities need tofind innovative strategies to eradicateurban hunger and improve thelivelihoods of the urban poor. Urbanagriculture provides such a strategy byenhancing access to fresh andnutritious food, and contributing tolocal economic development and socialinclusion of the urban poor, especiallywomen. It also has the effect of greeningcities, promoting the productive reuse ofurban waste, and reducing vulnerabilityto climate change. How can policy bedeveloped to include all the relevantsectors and disciplines, includingagriculture, urban land use planning,health, waste management, socialhousing and slum upgrading, and parksand nature management? Cities, Povertyand Food presents the experience ofRUAF Foundation and provides valuableinsights and guidelines which areessential reading for the staff ofmunicipal authorities, producer groupsand community-based organizations; forNGO field workers; universityresearchers; agricultural extensionofficers and others who seek to enhanceparticipatory governance, urban foodsecurity, urban poverty alleviation andimproved urban environmentalmanagement.


Farmer First RevisitedInnovation for agricultural research anddevelopment

Edited by Ian Scoones and JohnThompson

Agriculture is an urgent global priorityand farmers find themselves in the frontline of some of the world's mostpressing issues- climate change,globalization and food security. Twentyyears ago, the Farmer First workshopheld at the Institute of DevelopmentStudies, University of Sussex, UK,launched a movement to encouragefarmer participation in agriculturalresearch and development (R & D),responding to farmers' needs incomplex, diverse, risk-proneenvironments, and promotingsustainable livelihoods and agriculture.Since that time, methodological,institutional and policy experimentshave unfolded around the world. FarmerFirst Revisited returns to the debatesabout farmer participation inagricultural R & D and looks to thefuture.The book presents a range ofexperiences that highlight theimportance of going beyond a focus onthe farm to a wider innovation system,including market interactions as well asthe wider institutional and policyenvironment. If, however, farmers arereally to be put first, a politics ofdemand is required in order to shapethe direction of these innovativesystems.


Farmers' ChoiceEvaluating an approach to agriculturaltechnology adoption in Tanzania

Edited by Helene Bie Lilleør and UlrikLund-Sørensen

Food security is an urgent internationalpriority. However, agricultural extensionmethods that relied on imposingcentrally-developed technologicalsolutions have been ineffective, sincesmall farmers in developing countriesoften cultivate marginal lands, workingunder constraints for which thesesolutions were not designed. Since 2006,a flexible agricultural extensionapproach has been implemented inNorthern Tanzania, inspired by theFarmer Field School approach, andoffering farmers a ‘basket of technologyoptions’ from which farmers can pickand choose what serves their needs andresources best. The focus is onextending improved low-cost farmingtechniques adaptable to localconditions in a pragmatic and flexibleprocess. The interventions are locallyknown as ‘RIPAT’,have received financialand technical support from theRockwool Foundation. Farmers’ Choiceoutlines the RIPAT intervention, andexamines how effective it has been.Thisevaluation should be read by all thoseinterested in improving the food securityand incomes of poor farmers in theGlobal South: agricultural scientists,anthropologists, staff of NGOs,researchers and students ofdevelopment studies.


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Farmers' JuryThe Future of Smallholder Agriculture

Stuart Coupe, John Hellin, AbsolomMasendeke and Elijah Rusike

This ITDG Working Paper analyses theexperience of a farmers' jury inZimbabwe. Representatives of poorfarmers mapped out their vision for thefuture of agriculture in their countryafter hearing from policy makers andtechnical experts of every shade ofopinion. The ITDG Working Papers aredesigned to make available to the widerdevelopment community the knowledgeand insights that the IntermediateTechnology Development Group isgenerating about technology anddevelopment. The papers are selectedfor their contribution to debate, with thehope of stimulating further research orcontributing to similar work in progress.The series is edited by Andrew Scott,International Programmes and PolicyDirector of ITDG.


Food Security in Sub-SaharanAfrica

Edited by Stephen Devereux andSimon Maxwell

Sub-Saharan Africa's persistent foodinsecurity and vulnerability to faminereflects failures of understanding asmuch as failures of interventions. FoodSecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa aims tocontribute towards an improvedunderstanding for more effective foodsecurity policy. This book bringstogether eleven substantial chapters oncritical food security issues, and drawson a variety of disciplinaryperspectives, from agriculturaleconomics to nutrition. Mostcontributions reflect an evolution ofthinking during the 1990s. Foodinsecurity is no longer seen simply as aproblem of agriculture and a failure offood production at the national level,but instead as a failure of livelihoods toguarantee access to sufficient food athousehold level. The authors are allfood security experts with longexperience of research and advisorywork in Africa.


Food SovereigntyTowards democracy in localized foodsystems responding to a changingenvironment


Food Sovereignty is the policyframework for the governance of foodand agriculture and has emerged fromthe social movements of food providersas a countervailing approach at local,national and international levels. FoodSovereignty puts food providerscentre-stage and prioritises the humanright of consumers to nutritious foods,sourced as locally as possible, ratherthan internationally tradeablecommodities. It builds knowledge andskills that conserve and develop localfood production and rejects proprietarytechnologies that facilitate corporatecontrol. In this new edition, MichaelWindfuhr describes the development ofthe Food Sovereignty policy frameworkand shows how it addresses themultiple crises and rapidly changingenvironment for securing future foodsupplies. He builds on the outcomes ofthe Nyéléni 2007 Forum for FoodSovereignty and outlines the basicassumptions, providing a comparativeanalysis of the limitations of theconcept of food security, analyses howFood Sovereignty relates to the currentand prospective challenges for ruraldevelopment, food and agriculturalpolicies, and discusses possible policyconstraints to the adoption of the FoodSovereignty policy framework.





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Reconstructing Agriculture inAfghanistan

Edited by Jacky Sutton and AdamPain

The book raises critical questionsrelating to both humanitarianintervention and development agendasin crisis states. It supports a growingliterature that interrogates past andpresent interventions, but does so byputting food security at the heart of bothshort- and long-term responses to crisis.In this it addresses two main issues.First, to review the currentunderstanding of agriculture and foodsecurity issues in Afghanistan. Second,to bring together lessons on the natureand practice of interventions in supportof food security and agriculture,particularly in the post-2001 period. Thefindings are a testimony to successfulinterventions, and explore widerimplications of building food securityunder conditions of political instability.The book brings together papers by keypractitioners and food security analystswith knowledge of the agricultural andpolitical economy of Afghanistan. Itmakes an ongoing contribution to thetheories of post-war rehabilitation infragile states, providing an importantreference for operational agencies andresearchers. Published in associationwith the Food and AgricultureOrganization of the United Nations.


Seeds and SynergiesInnovation in rural development in China

Edited by Yiching Song and RonnieVernooy

Farmers and researchers too often liveand work in different realities.Researchers breed plant hybrids in thelaboratory that are successful onlyunder ideal conditions, requiring justthe right inputs of water, fertilizer, andpesticides. For resource-poor farmers,however, such conditions simply don’texist. As a result, they either obtain poorresults from high-tech seeds or continueto do the best they can with localvarieties. Seeds and Synergies reflectson the innovative efforts of a group ofChinese researchers and extensionagents to connect scientists andfarmers. Their action research hasenabled indigenous women and men inlocal communities to improve maizevarieties jointly with professional plantbreeders. This has invigorated maizeproduction, created new livelihoods,and strengthened organizationalcapacities. The research has alsoresulted in policy changes in plantbreeding, in the conservation ofagricultural biodiversity, in theprotection of indigenous knowledge, infarmer organization, and in theprovision of services, notably extension.This book will be of particular interestto rural development scholars,researchers, teachers and trainers, andfield-level practitioners.


Small Farmers, Big ChangeScaling up impact in smallholderagriculture

Edited by David Wilson, Kirsty Wilsonand Claire Harvey

Support for smallholder agriculture isseen as increasingly important, both toboost the food security and incomes ofthe rural poor and to provide food forurban populations. But to achieve scalein agricultural interventions, NGOs mustmove beyond a project-by-projectapproach and instead enable farmers toengage with market players. SmallFarmers, Big Change considers learningfrom the experience of Oxfam’s globalagricultural scale-up initiative as wellas from wider agriculturalmarkets-based programming. This bookincludes very practical examples ofachieving wider change in smallholderagriculture, through influencing policyand investment decisions, linkingsmallholders into markets and valuechains, and innovating serviceprovision for small farmers. The casestudies outline what steps were taken tofacilitate new types of farmerorganization and alliances with anemphasis on promoting equitablelivelihoods and developing ruralwomen’s economic leadership. Drawnfrom Africa, Latin America and Asia, thecases include information aboutchallenges faced and what remains tobe done in the future. This book shouldbe read by the staff of donor agencies,policy makers, NGO practitioners,academics and students of developmentstudies and the environment.





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Agricultural Policy AnalysisTools for EconomicDevelopment

Luther Tweeten


Agricultural TradePrinciples and policies

Luther Tweeten


Agro-mechanical Diffusion in aBackward Region

Rakesh Basant


AgroecologyThe science of sustainable agriculture

Miguel Altieri


Animal Draught TechnologyAn annotated bibliography

Jane Bartlett and David Gibbon


Beating Hunger, The ChiviExperienceA community-based approach to foodsecurity in Zimbabwe

Kuda Murwira


Beyond Farmer FirstRural peoples knowledge, agriculturalresearch and extension practice

Edited by Ian Scoones and JohnThompson


Controlling Crop Pests andDiseases

Rosalyn Rappaport


Cover Crops in SmallholderAgricultureLessons from Latin America

Simon Anderson


Crop Protection Strategies forSubsistence Farmers

Miguel Altieri


Cultivating BiodiversityUnderstanding, analysing and usingagricultural diversity

Edited by Harold Brookfield


Cultivating KnowledgeGenetic diversity, farmer experimentationand crop research

Edited by Walter de Boef


Cultural and Spiritual Values ofBiodiversity

Darrell Posey


Encouraging DiversityCrop development and conservation inplant genetic resources

Edited by Conny Almekinders andWalter de Boef


Farmer FirstFarmer innovation and agriculturalresearch

Robert Chambers


Farmer Participatory ResearchRhetoric and reality

Christine Okali, James Sumberg andJohn Farrington


Farmer-led ExtensionConcepts and practices

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Farmers' Research in PracticeLessons from the field

Edited by Laurens van Veldhuizen


Farmers' Seed ProductionNew approaches and practices

Conny Almekinders and Niels Louwaars


Food SovereigntyTowards democracy in localized foodsystems



Forest Farming

J.Sholto Douglas and Robert Hart


Forgotten SectorNon-farm employment and enterprises inrural India

Thomas Fisher


Future of Community LandsHuman resources

Emmanuel Ndione


Growing DiversityGenetic resources and local food security

Edited by David Cooper, Renée Velveand Henk Hobbelink


Harvesting and ThreshingSome Tools for Agriculture

Edited by Ian Johnson and John Boyd


How to Make the Most of yourTractor

Brian May


Improving Food SecurityA guide for rural development managers

Michael Hubbard


Intercropping and the ScientificBasis of Traditional Agriculture

Donald Innis


IntercultivationSome Tools for Agriculture

Frank Inns


Joining Farmers' ExperimentsExperiences in participatory technologydevelopment

Bertus Haverkort


Land ClearanceAlternative Techniques for RemovingTrees and Bushes

Edited by ITDG


Land, Food and RuralDevelopment in North Africa

M. El-Ghonemy


Land is LifeLand reform and sustainable agriculture

Edited by Nigel Dudley, John Madeleyand Sue Stolton


Land Reform and PeasantLivelihoodsThe social dynamics of rural poverty andagrarian reform in developing countries

Krishna Ghimire


Let Farmers JudgeExperiences in assessing thesustainability of agriculture

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Livelihood from FishingGlobalization and sustainable fisheriespolicies

Edited by Alain Le Sann


Living with UncertaintyNew directions in pastoral development inAfrica

Edited by Ian Scoones


Manual of Practical Managementfor Third World RuralDevelopment AssociationsTwo-volume set

Fernand Vincent


Manual of Practical Managementfor Third World RuralDevelopment Associations.Organization, administration,communication

Fernand Vincent


Manual of Practical Managementfor Third World RuralDevelopment Associations.Financial management

Fernand Vincent


Market PanaceaAgrarian transformation in developingcountries and former socialist economies

Edited by Max Spoor


Modern Coconut ManagementPalm cultivation and products

Edited by J.G. Ohler


Multi-purpose ToolbarsSome Tools for Agriculture

David Gibbon


New Forester

Berry van Gelder and Phil O'Keefe


New Seed and Old LawsRegulatory reform and the diversificationof national seed systems

Robert Tripp


Organic CottonFrom field to final product

Dorothy Myers and Sue Stolten


Poverty and Rural Development

K. Puttaswamaiah


Providing Food Security For All

Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora


Qualitative Enquiry for RuralDevelopmentA review

Jon Moris and James Copestake


Report on Farm EquipmentDevelopment Project Daudawa NCS,Nigeria

J Boyd


Resilient Family FarmSupporting agricultural development andrural economic growth

Gaye Burpee


Roots of ChangeHuman behaviour and agriculturalevolution in Mali

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Seed-bed PreparationSome Tools for Agriculture

M Mathews


Seeds of ChoiceMaking the most of new varieties for smallfarmers

John Witcombe


Slash/Mulch SystemsSustainable methods for tropicalagriculture

H. David Thurston


Small Farm Weed ControlAn annotated bibliography

J.A.F. Compton


Stakeholder Incentives inParticipatory ForestManagementA manual for economic analysis

Michael Richards


Sustainable MountainAgriculture 1Perspectives and issues

N.S. Jodha


Sustainable MountainAgriculture 2Farmers strategies and Innovative

N.S. Jodha


Sustaining AgriculturalBiodiversityand the integrity and free flow of GeneticResources for Food for Agriculture

Edited by Forum for Food Sovereignty


To Cure All HungerFood policy and food security in Sudan

Simon Maxwell


Tools for AgricultureA guide to appropriate equipment forsmallholder farmers

Ian Carruthers


Tools for Organic Farming

Edited by George McRobie


Trading the Silver SeedLocal knowledge and market moralities inaquacultural development

David Lewis, Geoffrey Wood and RickGregory


Useful Plants of Ghana

Daniel Abbiw


Women and Food SecurityThe experience of the SADCC countries



Women and Integrated PestManagement

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Working with Farmers for BetterLand Husbandry

Edited by Norman Hudson, RodneyCheatle, Adrian Woods and FrancisGichuki


An initial Course in TropicalAgriculture for the Staff ofCo-operatives

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Community-based AnimalHealthcare

Edited by Andy Catley, StephenBlakeway and Tim Leyland

Community based approaches toimproving animal health have beenevolving for many years. Numerousorganisations and institutions,including government veterinaryservices, are now beginning toimplement community-based animalhealth projects in order to provide basicveterinary services in rural areas.However, both governmental andnon-governmental organisations canlack experience of community-basedanimal health systems and, to date,there are few publications available toguide them. This book is a how to do itmanual covering all aspects ofcommunity-based animal health work.The book is designed for animal healthprofessionals at field-level, though willalso be relevant to policy makers,donors and veterinary traininginstitutes. The book will draw on theexperiences of community-based animalhealth projects implemented bygovernment and NGOs during the lasttwenty years and will relate to on-goingstructural reform of veterinary servicesin developing countries. The book aimsto provide practical guidance for thedesign and management ofcommunity-based animal healthservices and, in particular, will focus onissues related to sustainability andlinkages between basic level workers,private veterinarians and stateveterinary services.


Ethnoveterinary MedicineAn annotated bibliography of communityanimal healthcare

Marina Martin

This volume contains some 700abstracts from around the worldrelating to peoples animal healthcare,otherwise known as ethnoveterinarymedicine. Each abstract, many of thesubstantial, contains where possibledetail of the livestocks disease, thename of the treatment, its method ofpreparation and administration. Theabstracts cover the treatment of animalsin 115 countries. The bibliography isaimed at all involved or interested inethnoveterinary medicine: botanists,animal production professionals,veterinarians, anthropologists, socialscientists, rural developmentprofessionals and anyone interested inIndigenous Knowledge. This bookreplaces ethnoveterinary medicine: Anannotated bibliography, which wasoriginally published in 1989 as thepremier sourcebook in its field and willbe of great use and interest to manyactive in the Indigenous Knowledgefield.


A Field Manual of CamelDiseasesTraditional and modern veterinary carefor the dromedary

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, Evelyn Mathiasand Paul Mundy

The one-humped camel, or dromedary, isone of the world's hardiestdomesticated animals. A vital source oftransport, meat, milk and income forpastoralists in the Sahel, East Africa, theMiddle East and South Asia, the camelcan carry heavy loads for days in someof the world's most hostile conditions.But even camels fall ill. A Field Manualof Camel Diseases is the first practicalguide to camel diseases designed foruse in low technology environments. Themanual details some 80 major cameldiseases and conditions, ranging fromabortions to wry neck syndrome. Foreach disease, the authors give thedisease signs, its causes, and simpleprevention and treatment methods. Bothscientific and tried and testedtraditional treatments are presented,thus enabling the veterinarian orlivestock practitioner to make the mostappropriate choice in the prevailingcircumstances. Local and scientificnames of diseases and plants are given,enabling enhanced communication andunderstanding between pastoralist andveterinarian. A list of commonmedicines and their dosages acts as anaide-memoire. Illustrated throughout byartists familiar with camels to showclearly the diseases and how to treatthem.


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Participatory LivestockResearchA guide

Czech Conroy

This book is the first to offer anintroduction to participatory researchfor livestock development. Despite theattention paid to participatory researchmethodologies in other areas ofagricultural development, participatorylivestock work has been relativelyneglected despite the evident relevanceof and demand for such approaches.This book will bring livestockresearchers and practitioners up to datewith the latest and best practice inparticipatory research.Participatory Livestock Research willhelp researchers and practitioners toovercome the potential difficultiesassociated with participatory livestockresearch. The book shows how aparticipatory approach to technologydevelopment can be successful. It alsoshows how to undertake needsassessment using participatoryapproaches, and how to avoid theproblems associated with on-farmlivestock experiments. ParticipatoryLivestock Research is essential readingfor all those involved in livestockresearch and will be also be of interestto workers and researchers interested inwider agricultural development issuesin universities, national agriculturalresearch systems and NGOs, andextension workers and practitioners inagricultural service agencies.


Pastoral Livestock Marketing inEastern AfricaResearch and Policy Challenges

Edited by John McPeak and PeterLittle

An in-depth, evidence-basedinvestigation of livestock marketing inEastern Africa which approaches theissues from a variety of disciplinaryperspectives including anthropology,economics, geography, and rangelandecology.

Editors John G. McPeak and Peter D.Little present current findings on howlivestock markets in this area operate,describe policy options that helpmarkets function more effectively, andidentify topics meriting further research.The issues are examined at a variety oflevels (household, market, national, andinternational), and many of the authorsplace emphasis on cross-border trade:an area not currently well understoodbut of substantial economic importance.

The book is written in a clear,straightforward style and, though theauthors come from a variety of fields,jargon and discipline-specific terms arekept to a minimum.


Sharing the LoadA guide to improving the welfare ofworking animals through collectiveaction

Lisa van Dijk, Joy C. Pritchard, SubirK. Pradhan and Kimberley L. Wells

Promoting the welfare of workinganimals is important not only for thesake of the animals themselves, but forthe livelihoods of their owners. Sharingthe Load aims to stimulate collectiveaction among animal-owningcommunities to improve the health andhusbandry of their draught and packanimals, by applying the methods ofcommunity facilitation and collectiveaction to the pursuit of animal welfare.Since 2005, the Brooke has beenpioneering the integration of animalwelfare science with best practice fromthe international development sector tobuild communities’ responsibility forsustained improvement in the welfare oftheir working animals. Sharing the Loaddocuments the outcome of four years’development of this process andincludes field-based participatorymethods and tools designed specificallyfor this purpose, using livelyillustrations and text boxes inaccessible language on the theory ofdevelopment practice and animalwelfare science. Sharing the Load shouldbe read by anyone who has directcontact with working animals and theirowners, including veterinarians,community-based animal healthworkers, government extension workersand the staff of rural developmentNGOs.





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Animal Healthcare TrainingNepals animal health care improvementtraining programme

John Young and Edited by Sarah Jones


BeekeepingSome tools for agriculture

Ethel Crane


Ethnoveterinary Research andDevelopment

Edited by Constance McCorkle, EvelynMathias, Veen van Schillhorn and WTjaart


The Golden Insect

Stephen Adjare


Harnessing of Draught Animals

Ian Barwell and Michael Ayre


Horse HealthcareA manual for animal health workers andowners

David Hadrill


Managing Mobility in AfricanRangelandsThe legitimization of transhumance

Edited by Maryam Niamir-Fuller


Restocking PastoralistsA manual of best practice and decisionsupport tools

Claire Heffernan


Saving Lives and LivelihoodsTen Years of Community-based AnimalHealthcare in Sudan

Louise Tunbridge


Try the Rabbit

Stephen Adjare


Village Animal HealthcareA community-based approach to livestockdevelopment in Kenya

Barbara Grandin


Forest Farm Husbandry

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The Sustainability Handbookfor Design & TechnologyTeachers

Edited by Ian Capewell

Most people are now aware of theireco-footprint and the need to cut carbonemissions. Local councils have set uprecycling schemes and people areencouraged to reduce travel emissions,but this is not enough. Designers need toincorporate sustainabilityconsiderations into their work, and thisbook contains both justification andinspiration for Design and Technologyteachers wishing to introducesustainable design into their lessons.

The authors introduce the big issues,link climate change and poverty tosustainable design, and encourage usall to develop as active citizens takingon our environmental responsibilities.Each of the six Rs - rethink, refuse,reduce, reuse, repair and recycle - isconsidered in relation to each focusarea, with suggested activities andsources of further information.

The handbook has been produced byPractical Action in collaboration withthe Centre for Alternative Technology.


Sustainability Matters in Designand Technology

Edited by Ian Capewell

Sustainability Matters in Design andTechnology will help you deliver theincreased emphasis on sustainabilitywithin the new GCSE courses. The packcontains a CD with six presentationscovering the D & T material areas, linkedteachers’ notes and photocopiablesheets for students on the topics ofinspirational products, four dimensionsof Sustainable Design - economic,environmental, cultural and socialimpacts, product life cycle analysis, andthe six Rs definitions.

To accompany the CD the pack contains13 postcards that will help yourstudents to understand how designersuse the six Rs to develop inspirationalproducts.

‘This pack will be a really valuableresource to all teachers looking forways of encouraging their GCSE studentsto think and design more sustainably’Maria James, Head of Art, Design &Technology, Churston Ferrers GrammarSchool, Brixham, and GCSE ChiefExaminer

2010ISBN 9781853397080 Mixed media product£11.95 • €17.95 • $23.95

Sustainable Lifestyles?Exploring economic and cultural issuesin design and technology

James Pitt

Sustainable lifestyles encouragesstudents to think about sustainability inboth a local and global context,enabling them to understand the valuesissues surrounding appropriate designand technology. The pack looks at theoften complex economic and culturalissues associated with suatainable andappropriate technology in a clear andaccessible way.

This book is a useful resource forteachers looking for ways of integratingvalues-based issues into their designand technology teaching. Aimed atstudents aged 14-16 years old, the packtackles the complex economic andcultural issues associated withsustainable and appropriatetechnology, in a clear and accessibleway.


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Children Actively LearningThe New Approach to Primary Educationin Bhutan

Peter Collister


Development @ IT

Deborah Howard


Hands On TechnologyUnderstanding sustainability

James Pitt


In a NutshellAddressing sustainability and citizenshipissues through food processing

Ali Farrell


Introductory TechnologyA resource book for teachers

Adrian Owens


Live Well, Live WiselyTechnology for sustainable development

Cath Miller


Wall to Wall DesignA sustainable housing pack for key stage3 design and technology

Ruth Najda


Making Good Local GovernanceGrowImproving local governance throughequitable sustainable natual resourcemanagement

Patrick Robinson and Sara Wehrli


Guidelines for Global Issues inTechnologyA handbook for teachers and advisers

Catherine Budgett-Meakin


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Journals

WaterlinesWaterlines – 30th Anniversary

2012 saw the 30th anniversary of Waterlines. Published continually since 1982, Waterlines is the leading forum for all those involved in extending water supply, sanitation, hygiene and waste management to those in developing countries.

Year after year there are increases to the challenges faced by those working in the water and sanitation sector. It is therefore vital to provide affordable, sustainable systems to tackle those issues. Waterlines provides a vital forum for engineers, health professionals, community development workers, researchers and policy makers to assess these issues and implications, particularly with reference to wider policy and institutional frameworks.

By bridging the gap between research and practice, Waterlines aims to highlight the different information sources and encourage debate between the various perspectives.

Keep in touch with WaterlinesWhether you’re a subscriber or not you can still keep up to date with the contents of Waterlines. To receive our FREE table of contents email alerts or a FREE SAMPLE COPY go to

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Enterprise Development and Microfinance (EDM)Over 20 years at the forefront of the microfinance debate

Now in its 24th year EDM continues to be vital reading for anybody involved in the design and administration of enterprise development and microfinance programmes in developing countries.

As well as peer reviewed articles EDM includes the following features: a ‘Crossfire’ debate on a topical issue; webwatch; editorial and reviews.

Recent themes have included reaching the poorest and most vulnerable; microfinance for young people; savings; agricultural value chains; the impact of programmes on clients and producers; and value chain development. Consequently EDM is essential reading for managers of projects, providers of technical assistance, consultants to projects, policymakers and the staff of donor agencies.

Keep in touch with Enterprise Development & MicrofinanceWhether you’re a subscriber or not you can still keep up to date with the contents of EDM. To receive our FREE table of contents email alerts or a FREE SAMPLE COPY go to


Food ChainA new journal that goes from farm gate to plate

Food Chain is an international journal for all those involved in developing the supply of high-quality foods from ‘farm gate to plate’ and those who use food processing to alleviate poverty and hunger. By bridging the gap between research and practice, we encourage papers written by researchers for the benefit of people who put ideas into practice in the field, and those written by practitioners to inform the need for further research. The content covers all aspects of promoting food chains, from on-farm processing and post-harvest storage, to the operation of small food-processing businesses, supply of food-processing or analytical equipment, hygiene and quality assurance, value chain development, marketing, distribution, finance and the place of small-scale processing in the wider business and economic environment.

As well as peer-reviewed in-depth articles, Food Chain includes the following features: a Crossfire debate on a topical issue, book reviews, field reports, technical reports, and book reviews.

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Oxfam GBOxford, United KingdomEstablished in 1942, Oxfam is one of the leading non-governmental organisations working for international poverty relief and equality around the world. Oxfam GB publishes a wide range of books, reports, papers and training packs in order to communicate Oxfam’s policy research, advocacy messages and programme experience, and to contribute to debates amongst development practitioners.

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) / Centre de Recherches pour le Developpement International (CRDI)Ottawa, CanadaIDRC was created to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Their support is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.A leading publisher of international development literature since 1971, they publish the results of IDRC-supported research on global and regional issues related to sustainable and equitable development in English, French and Spanish.

Sphere ProjectThe Sphere Project is a programme of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) and InterAction with VOICE, ICRC and ICVA. The project was launched in 1997 to develop a set of universal minimum standards in core areas of humanitarian assistance. The aim of the project is to improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system in disaster response.

In support of their activities, Sphere Project produces several operational guides and training materials in a variety of languages including English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

Water Engineering Development Centre (WEDC)Loughborough, United KingdomWEDC is one of the world’s leading education and research institutes for improving access to infrastructure and services for the poor in low- and middle-income countries. WEDC Publications include books, manuals, academic papers, conference proceedings, reports, articles, projects, and case studies published either by WEDC or though other international publishers.

Swiss Centre for Development Cooperation in Technology and Management (SKAT)St Gallen, SwitzerlandFounded in 1978, SKAT is one of the original European development agencies to emerge from the ‘Small is Beautiful’ movement. Over the years SKAT has become a leading Swiss consultancy firm working internationally in the field of rural and urban infrastructure. SKAT’s main areas of focus are Water and Sanitation, Architecture and Building, Urban Development, and Transport Infrastructure.

Natural Resources Institute (NRI)Chatham, United KingdomNRI is an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary centre for research, consultancy and education for the management of natural and human resources. Their mission is to provide distinctive, high quality and relevant research, consultancy, learning and advice in support of sustainable development, economic growth and poverty reduction. NRI publishes affordable books on agricultural development in support of sustainable livelihoods. Based on sound scientific and socio-economic research, these books range from offering advice to policy makers and natural resource managers through to extension material for use at grass roots level.

International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC)Oxford, United KingdomINTRAC is a non-profit organisation working in the international development and relief sector to support non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world by helping to explore policy issues, and by strengthening management and organisational effectiveness. INTRAC publishes a range materials for development practitioners both in the field and engaged in policy making and research. These cover a broad range of topics in the areas of civil society strengthening and aid modalities, developed from their research, training and consultancy programmes.

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