WEDC
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Sweeping Business: Developing Entrepreneurial Skills for the Collection of Solid Waste
This book presents the findings of a Department for International Development (DFID) funded project (R6540). It has been written for practitioners, municipal staff, non-government organizations and students interested in promoting micro-enterprises for the collection of solid waste. The project has...
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Assessing Sanitation Policy: a series of WEDC Briefing Notes
This series of Briefing Notes Assessing Sanitation Policy is based on lessons learned from national sanitation policy assessments carried out in Ghana and Nepal, together with the review and assessment of sanitation policy in these and other countries. The Notes provide concise guidance on the impor...
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Community Initiatives in Urban Infrastructure
This manual investigates the extent and nature of the involvement of low-income urban communities in the provision of their local infrastructure. It also provides guidance for policy-makers and professional staff of urban government, development agencies, non-government organisations, and small to m...
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Emergency Sanitation: Assessment and programme design
This book is designed to assist those involved in planning and implementing emergency sanitation programmes. The main focus of the book is a systematic and structured approach to assessment and programme design. It provides a balance between the hardware (technical) and software (socio-cultural, ins...
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Emergency Vector Control using Chemicals (2nd Edition)
electing the appropriate control chemical and the means of application, together with advice on planning an implementation programme.
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Emergency Water Sources
These guidelines have been designed to help those involved in the assesment of emergency water sources to collect relevant information in a systematic way, to use this information to select a source or sources and to determing the appropriate level of treatment required to make the water suitable fo...
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Information Design and Distance Learning for International Development
This book presents an investigation by research into the ways in which distance learning is affected by the physical design of printed study materials. In particular, it examines the use of engineering drawing systems for illustrated, instructional texts concerned with technical aspects of infrastru...
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Infrastructure for All: Meeting the needs of both men and women in development projects - A practical guide for engineers, technicians and project managers
This book has been produced to help engineers, technicians and project managers ensure that the facilities they design and build are beneficial to all members of society. Using many examples, especially related to water and sanitation, the book demonstrates that 'one size does not fit all'. It shows...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 1. Guiding Principles for Policymakers, Planners and Engineers
Guiding Principles is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It presents an overview of principles and offers guidance for the development of an action planning approach to improve services for the urban poor within a policy context which sup...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 2. Working with Partners - Guidance for Policymakers, Planners and Engineers
Working with Partners is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It reviews the roles of different stakeholders in service provision, including government, civil society and external agencies. A number of common constraints are identified and...