Practical Action Publishing
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When Aid is No Help
Examines how aid from rich to poor countries often fails to reach those most in need, and how the global aid effort falls short in its most crucial task. It also discusses how changes may be made and offers twelve guidelines to assist aid policymakers. Much development assistance from rich to poor...
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When the Harvest is in
Discussion of the problems besetting rural communities as they attempt to develop non-farm production at the same time as ensuring a constant food supply, with examples from India, Sri Lanka, USSR, South Africa, England and Ireland.
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Where Credit is Due
Development economics reveal that thousands of poor `microentrepreneurs' are able to work, invest, and overcome poverty when given the chance; the author looks to the use of credit-based income generation schemes as a new poverty-alleviation strategy.
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Where There is No Artist
A simple to use catalogue, containing a wealth of illustrations, with a unique combination of written text and visual aids.Visual aids can provide information, provoke discussion and discovery, and make difficult ideas easy to understand. They can also improve the accessibility of a book or a poster...
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Who Changes?
James Blackburn, Jeremy Holland
The recent trend of participatory approaches presents challenges to those working in the development sector. Who Changes? draws together, for the first time, lessons and experiences from key development agencies around the globe on the institutional change needed to make participation a reality. T...
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Who Counts?
Jeremy Holland, Robert Chambers
Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes. St...
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Whose Reality Counts?
In this sequel to Rural Development: Putting the last first Robert Chambers argues that central issues in development have been overlooked, and that many past errors have flowed from domination by those with power. Through analysing experience - of past mistakes and myths, and of the continuing meth...
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Whose Voice?
PRA and related participatory approaches have opened up new ways in which policy can be influenced by the realities of those who are poor, weak, marginalized and excluded. With the increasing use of PRA methods and practices by NGOs, governments and multinational agencies, the potential impact for p...
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Windpumping Handbook
Sarah Lancashire, Jeff Kenna, Peter Fraenkel
Windpumping is an established technology, with over one million windpumps in use worldwide. A windpump needs no fuel, little maintenance and it usually lasts 20 years or more. Designs exist which are suitable for small-scale local .manufacture. The aim of this handbook is to help potential users and...
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Windpumps
Using windpumps can be a reliable, cost-effective and environmentally benign means of providing a supply of clean water in rural areas. Although winpumps have been in commercial production for over 100 years, there is still enormous potential for their use in communities and on farms throughout the...