Practical Answers

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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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  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...

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  Quality assurance checklist for house construction in disaster prone areas

  This document is intended mostly to help building contractors and site supervisors to maintain reliable standards in order to ensure that the final product would be of durable quality. It is hoped that users of this information will contribute to the construction of houses that will successfully wit...

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  Walls using the ‘rat-trap bond’ technology: technical brief

  The rat-trap bond technology has been developed by Architect Laurie Baker with the HABITAT Resource Centre in India and is a result of its experimentations in cost-effective housing technologies conducted over 40 years.

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  Delivering decentralisation

  This is an introductory leaflet to the project Delivering decentralization: slum dwellers' access to decision making for pro poor infrastructure services.

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  Making a Manual Fuel Briquette Press

  This brief describes the process of making and using a simple low-pressure manual press for fuel briquette production. This press can also be used for other purposes, such as vegetable oil extraction. In this brief however we will concentrate on fuel briquette making only.

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  Home Composting Systems

  This technical brief describes about different home composting methods and use of home composting bins in detail.

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  Plantation, production and use of biofuels at the community level

  Plantation, production and use of bio fuels at the community level is a compilation of the results and processes undertaken in key sections of the project; harnessing bio fuel; plantation, oil expelling, processing and application.

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  Carrot Farming

  This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of carrots with detail on the seasons, sowing, fertiliser and seeding rates.

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  Quality assurance checklist (3)

  This document is intended to provide basic guidelines to occupants of houses that have been constructed in new resettlements in Sri Lanka. However, the information can also be used in maintaining any domestic building in other tropical regions as well.