Clamor

Jan Rocha

Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile is relatively well known in the UK, but what happened during the Argentine dictatorship, 1976-83, when thousands of men, women, and children were subjected to state terrorism, remains largely unknown. The book describes the secret detention camps, the disappearances,...

Supporting Communities Affected by Violence

Craig Higson-Smith

More than 15,000 people have been killed, and 500,000 displaced, during years of low-intensity civil war in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. This title describes the work of the KwaZulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence (KZN-PSV), which (with the support of Oxfam) helps communiti...

Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities

Monica Trujillo

This working paper maps the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America are exposed and relates these to the complex social, economic, political and cultural factors that make some social sectors more critically vulnerable than others in emergencies. It als...

Impact Assessment for Development Agencies

Chris Roche

Considering the process of impact assessment, this book shows how and why it needs to be integrated into all stages of development programmes - from planning to evaluation. Its basic premise is that impact assessment should not refer to the immediate outputs of a project or programme but to any last...

Development and Social Action

Miloon Kothari

Throughout the world, civil society organisations (including NGOs) are playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting pro-poor policy change both in their own countries and internationally, whether through advocacy or through direct action and popular mobilisation. In the global re-alignment fo...

Sustainable Development and the Future of Cities

Pandurang Muttagi

Bernd Hamm

This book looks at how an increasingly urban world can also be a world where the ideas of sustainable development are put into practice. The book looks first at concepts, theories and problems of sustainable development - from a developed and a developing world perspective. It then considers regiona...

Manual of Practical Management for Third World Rural Development Associations

Fernand Vincent

Written in a simple and direct style useful for training administrators of small groups or associations and those who manage development projects. Volume 2 of this guide covers all aspects of financing an association. The second volume looks at all aspects of financial management for small developme...

Manual of Practical Management for Third World Rural Development Associations

Fernand Vincent

This comprehensive and simple guide will clarify management problems for those involved with non-governmental associations in developing countries. With numerous examples and annexes together with a glossary of unfamiliar technical terms.

Power, Process and Participation

Rachel Slocum, Lori Wichhart, Diana Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter

This book focuses on participatory capacity-building in ways that address the practical needs and strategic interests of the disadvantaged and disempowered - it examines how differences in class, ethnicity, race, caste, religion, age and gender lead to the 'politics of exclusion'. It offers innovati...

Power and Participatory Development

Nici Nelson

This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and examines what shifts in power within communities and institutions are needed for participatory ideas to be effective.