Practical Answers

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  Metering and Payment Technologies for Mini-grids

  This market assessment gives an overview of the state of the electricity sector in Zimbabwe, and describes the countrys renewable energy potential and the degree to which it has been exploited. Assessments of the decentralised generation and mini-grid sectors follow, alongside an exploration of the...

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  Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice

  Flash flood due to intensive rainfall and river overflow damages rice crop every year in flood plains of Nepal and other countries with similar topography.

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  Participatory planning for inclusive urban governance

  Practical Action Bangladesh have implemented a four-year long (2012 - 2016) multi-country (Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka) project named Integrated Urban Development (IUD)-II project, focusing participatory planning for inclusive urban governance. It came as a follow-up of IUD-I project had been imple...

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  Rainwater Harvesting in Thailand

  An explorative study was done to collect information and analyse the experiences of the promotion of domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH) in Thailand. A rapid review of evidence was combined with a field trip to collect information from a wide variety of actors. This report summarizes the main findi...

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  Understanding Equid Welfare Issues

  A comprehensive technical guide to understanding and dealing with equid welfare and health issues from The Brooke

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  Flood Early Warning System in Practice: Experiences of Nepal

  Flood Early Warning System (EWS) is one of the key programmes implemented by Practical Action in Nepal since 2002. We have realised, there is a need of EWS in South Asia regional scale as the disasters are not limited within the political boundary.

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  What is animal welfare?

  Animal welfare refers to the physical and emotional state that is impacted by the environment in which the animal lives and works, human attitudes and practices, and resources available to it. Welfare is an everchanging state in which all of these factors can and will cause welfare to fluctuate betw...

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  Food Security for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh

  The Policy Brief is prepared based on experiences of partner organisations in the northern and southern regions of Bangladesh and the food security framework i.e. food accessibility, availability, utilisation and sustainability, which are mostly included in the 7th Five Year Plan 2016-2020, where co...

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  Real-time Monitoring, Control and Payment Technologies for Mini-grids

  This brief discusses the factors of mini-grid economic viability revenue, tariffs and costs - and introduces technologies and approaches for enhancing viability through real-time monitoring, control and payments. It introduces the benefits of integrated monitoring, control and payment systems and pr...

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  Developing Mini-grids in Zambia

  Up to now, mini-grids have struggled to grow beyond pilot projects. Today, raising awareness about the main hurdles and learning from successful experiences is imperative in order for mini-grids to make a meaningful contribution to electricity access. ENEA and Practical Action are convinced that bui...