Development @ IT

Deborah Howard

This booklet provides an introduction to the concepts of appropriate and sustainable technologies, and how these technologies can improve people's lives.

Gender, Education and Training

Caroline Sweetman

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation - women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world's illiterate people - and writers reflec...

Adult Literacy

Paul Fordham, Deryn Holland

Juliet Millican

This is a book for development workers who have no formal training in adult education who have to respond - as planners, trainers or teachers - to requests for literacy skills. It sets out to deepen their understanding of literacy and its importance in the process of development and change. Using ex...