Practical Action Publishing
-
Standards Minimums pour la Protection de l'Enfance dans l'Action Humanitaire
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children
L’édition 2019 des Standards Minimums pour la Protection de l’Enfance dans l’intervention humanitaire (SMPE) est un ‘guichet unique’ pour toutes les ressources les plus récentes sur la protection de l’enfance. Les SMPE ont pour objectif de renforcer la qualité et la redevabilité des programmes de pr...
-
Islam and International Development
What can we learn from Islamic teachings that will take us closer to addressing today’s most pressing development challenges, including forced migration and refugees, safeguarding and child welfare, gender-based violence, climate change, and peacebuilding and conflict resolution? How can the mec...
-
Practical Guides for Organizational & Financial Resilience Set
John Cammack is a highly experienced practitioner, consultant and trainer in the international non-profit sector. He has worked, and delivered both face-to-face and online training, in over 60 countries, and has conducted innovative research with a wide range of trainers and practitioners working in...
-
Value Chain Development and the Poor
Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian, Jon Hellin
Since the early 2000s, value chain development (VCD) has figured prominently on the agendas of donors, governments, and NGOs in pursuit of market-based options to poverty reduction, food security, gender equity, and other goals. Researchers have shown interest in value chains as a theoretical con...
-
Self-Supply
Sally Sutton, John Butterworth
While governments and development partners focus on improving community and utility-managed water supplies to ensure access for all, hundreds of millions of people are taking actions to supply their own water. In the WASH sector household investment in construction and improvement of facilities is w...
-
Extractivisms
Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usually k...
-
Making Market Systems Work for the Poor
‘The M4P approach recognizes that the lives of the poor are inextricably linked to the functioning of the systems around them. Too often, poorly functioning market systems -- uncompetitive and unresponsive to producer, worker and consumer needs -- have a disproportionately negative impact upon the p...
-
Tratamiento de lodos fecales
Muchos países de ingresos medios y bajos están viviendo una rápida urbanización, lo cual genera una necesidad imperante e servicios, entre los que se encuentran los servicios de saneamiento. Si bien algunas zonas en pueblos y ciudades cuentan con servicios de alcantarillado, la mayoría de la poblaci...
-
Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-production for Sustainable Cities
Kerstin Hemström, David Simon, Henrietta Palmer, Beth Perry, Merritt Polk
How can we create new practices for research collaboration that mirror the complexities we are facing around the world, including the impacts of climate change, widening inequalities, decreasing biodiversity and untenable consumption levels? Transdisciplinary co-production aims to address this issue...
-
Young Feminisms
Caroline Sweetman, Imogen Davies
There are more young people today than ever before, and many countries in the global South have youth populations which make up well over half of the total. Against the backdrop of the #MeToo and #AidToo revelations, sexual abuse and harassment, and targeting and persecution by governments is a real...