Practical Action Publishing
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How To Run a Small Development Project
This will help the managers of development projects to design and manage their projects well, in particular by emphasizing the importance of forward planning. Covers both starting up and running projects, and working with Northern partner organizations.
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Human and Animal-powered Water Lifting Devices
The purpose of this study is to provide a state-of-the-art survey of both the technical and the socio-economic aspects of human and animal-powered water lifting. Contents include: Human-powered water-lifters - technical and social aspects, Animal-powered water-lifters - technical and social aspects,...
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The Human Rights of Street and Working Children
The Human Rights of Street and Working Children is a one-stop guide both for experienced advocates and for non-specialists in the field. The manual, which presents information in an accessible question-and-answer format, is divided into three sections for ease of reference. The first section defines...
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The Humanitarian Companion
Humanitarian workers -- working in their own country or overseas -- face many common challenges. This book will help them, and those training them, prepare both practically and emotionally for the wide range of challenges, dangers and insecurities that are an everyday part of their work. Written...
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Humanitarian Needs Assessment
What assistance do disaster-affected communities need? This book guides humanitarian field staff in answering this vital question during the early days and weeks following a disaster, when timely and competent assessment is crucial for enabling informed decision making. Needs assessment is essential...
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Hungry for Hope
This book deals with indigenous people and the problems that plague agricultural production in the high mountains of Ecuador. The author argues that when indigenous knowledge systems and participatory rural appraisal approaches are placed in the context of communicative action theory, they will gain...
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Hydraulic Ram Pumps
Step-by-step instructions on designing, installing and operating water supply systems based on hydraulic ram pumps. With illustrations and diagrams, and details of a pump designed for local manufacture and notes for those developing their own model.
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Hygiene Evaluation Procedures
Astier M. Almedom, Ursula Blumenthal, Lenore Manderson
This handbook provides practical guidelines for evaluating water and sanitation related hygiene practices for the purposes of project planning, monitoring or impact assessment. The main focus, therefore, is on the practical concerns of field personnel working in water supply, sanitation, and health...
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Hygiene Evaluation Procedures
Astier M. Almedom, Ursula Blumenthal, Lenore Manderson
This handbook provides practical guidelines for evaluating water and sanitation related hygiene practices for the purposes of project planning, monitoring or impact assessment. The main focus, therefore, is on the practical concerns of field personnel working in water supply, sanitation, and health...
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Hygiene Promotion
Indispensable for fieldworkers on projects or programmes aiming to reduce the incidence of water-and sanitation-related diseases, it will also be useful for other relief and development workers, particularly those working in the fields of community development, health, and engineering. The authors d...