Practical Action Publishing
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Living on Little
Living on Little illuminates the many deep and overlooked ways that scarcity shapes the lives of ordinary Kenyans. Drawing on four years of systematic research with nearly 300 low-income families, this book offers readers a new and intimate perspective on poverty. Living on very little money doe...
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Does Community Development Work?
What makes community development effective? How can we ensure that this work is responsive to the decolonial turn, the call for effectiveness and the need for justice? Highlighting useful practice frameworks for community development workers – both citizens and professionals – to navigate an incr...
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The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism
Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agrofood system, have resulted in a rush to secure control over resources. New actors and forms of capital penetration have e...
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A Practical Guide to Solar Photovoltaic Systems for Technicians
Solar photovoltaic systems provide an environmentally sustainable source of energy and have the potential to vastly improve the lives of many people in isolated areas of the world. First published in 2008, the first edition has been used to train more than ten thousand engineers and field technic...
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40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development
Peter Westoby, David Palmer, Athena Lathouras,
Who are the great activists, thinkers and writers who can inspire us in our community development work? Environmentalists, poets, philosophers, civil rights activists, trade unionists – all can help us question the assumptions that underlie our international development practice. This book invite...
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Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children
The 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) is a ‘one-stop shop’ for all the latest resources on child protection. The CPMS aims to strengthen quality and accountability in child protection programming and improve multi-sectoral approaches to children...
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Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Arabic
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children
The 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) is a ‘one-stop shop’ for all the latest resources on child protection. The CPMS aims to strengthen quality and accountability in child protection programming and improve multi-sectoral approaches to children...
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Taking Shelter
Patrick McAllister, Daniel Rozas
PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2020 How do low-income families, representing some 70% of the world’s population, finance home building and improvements – and how is the financial sector, from microfinance institutions and banks to investors and regulators, changing to serve their needs? The practice of h...
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Solar Pumping for Water Supply
Alberto Ibáñez Llario, Asenath W. Kiprono
Solar power for pumping groundwater has a vast potential for improving the sustainability of water supply schemes. However experience also shows that a lack of knowledge, capacity and expertise to design and implement such schemes is holding back their adoption. This book bridges this gap to equip e...
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Normas Mínimas Para la Protección de la Niñez y Adolescencia en la Acción Humanitaria
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children
La edición de 2019 de las Normas mínimas para la protección de la niñez y adolescencia en la acción humanitaria (NMPNA) es una "ventanilla única" para todos los recursos más recientes sobre protección de la infancia. Las NMPNA tienen como objetivo fortalecer la calidad y la responsabilidad en los pr...