WEDC
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 4. Technical Guidelines for Planners and Engineers
Technical Guidelines: Parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e and 4f is aimed primarily at urban engineers and planners. It provides a range of different tools for detailed planning and guidelines for design. The tools cover different technical options for service improvements to urban poor areas, including 'handy...
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Services for the Urban Poor 5 From Action Plans to Implementation
From Action Plans to Implementation is aimed primarily at urban engineers. It provides guidance on taking local action plans forward to the stage of implementing service improvements at the field level, including administrative procedures for technical and financial approval and the different option...
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Services for the Urban Poor 6 Operation and Maintenance
Operation and Maintenance is aimed primarily at urban engineers and planners. It presents different strategies for managing O&M and considers how these can be applied to produce detailed plans for improved operation and maintenance at the neighbourhood, Ward and Municipal levels.
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 2 - Guidance Notes for Managers
This book is one of a series of six publications that consider how water utilities working with other key stakeholders, can meet the needs and demands of urban water consumers - including the poor - through developing an understanding of the needs and demands of all consumer groups, and by the adapt...
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 4 - Sample strategic marketing plan
This sample strategic marketing plan (SMP) for Mombasa in Kenya has been completed as part of urban water sector marketing research that was lead by Water and Engineering Development Centre (WEDC) and IWE, Cranfield University and funded by DFID (UK). The purpose of the Mombasa urban water sector re...
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 3 PREPP
This book is one of a series of six publications that consider how water utilities working with other key stakeholders, can meet the needs and demands of urban water consumers - including the poor - through developing an understanding of the needs and demands of all consumer groups, and by the adapt...
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 6 - Sample strategic marketing plan India
This sample strategic marketing plan (SMP) for Mombasa in Kenya has been completed as part of urban water sector marketing research that was lead by Water and Engineering Development Centre (WEDC) and IWE, Cranfield University and funded by DFID (UK). The purpose of the Mombasa urban water sector re...
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Water Demand Management in the City of the Future: Selected tools and instruments for practitioners
This book presents examples of tools and instruments that can be adapted by urban water professionals to mainstream WDM in the cities' strategic planning process.
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Water and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups
The main focus of the book is on facilities for families in rural and peri-urban areas of low- and middle-income countries, but many of the approaches and solutions may also be applied in institutional settings, such as schools and hospitals and in emergency situations.
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Waste Pickers in Dhaka
Waste pickers in Dhaka make their living by selling recyclable items collected from dumped waste. Most are children living on the streets or in slums where they have little access to infrastructure, a low status in society and an uncertain future. This book is based on a period of fieldwork in Dhaka...