Voices of Activists and Academics

Vicky Johnson, Tessa Lewin, Andrew West

Over the past three decades, research and intervention processes have been left wanting by the lack of the substantive inclusion of children and young people, as well as the challenge of adultism − the ongoing and systematic disregard of many children and youth in decision-making. This book is in...

Plastic Pollution Solution

Joel D. Joseph

 Plastic Pollution Solution, for policy makers, details the effects of plastic pollution on people, animals and the planet and sets out ways to combat it.

50 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

California Association for Recycling All Trash (CARAT)

Plastic pollution threatens fish, wildlife, bees and humans. This book sets out how we all need to take drastic action to regulate the use and disposal of all products and packaging that use plastics. Produced by the California Association for Recycling All Trash (CARAT)

The INGO Problem

Deborah Doane

International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) have emerged over the past few decades as the dominant institution in the civil society ecosystem, garnering a disproportionate amount of both resources and power in the international arena. Local actors continue to be marginalised and largely exc...

Under Development

Ian Smillie

Armed with a university degree, the Boy Scout’s solemn oath and a snakebite kit which he left on the plane, Ian Smillie set out more than 50 years ago to confront ignorance, want and war. He taught at a remote school in Sierra Leone, was an aid administrator in Nigeria during the Biafran War and for...

Reflecting Forewords

Robert Chambers, Tessa Lewin

Reflecting Forewords is an unashamedly ambitious book. Full of lessons from the past that are relevant for the future, it is a compilation of inspiring forewords from books written by Robert Chambers; one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowle...

Progress You Can See

Shanna E. Ratner

Including exclusive video recordings of workshop sessions with the author

We all measure progress toward our individual goals every day, whether we recognize it or not. This book provides a proven process for incorporating...

The ‘Easternization’ of Development

Sanae Ito

Just over a decade ago, a new paradigm emerged that challenged the ‘conventional’ type of global development assistance by which the Global North vertically supports the Global South. It became apparent that a shift was taking place - to an approach built upon horizontal relationships between equal...

Development Practitioners in Action

Linje Manyozo

What does a development practitioner look like? Located within deliberative development paradigms, this book addresses this question by examining some of the key attributes, behaviours and character dispositions of development practitioners. Such mentality and behaviours enable development practitio...

Digital Development

Sundeep Sahay, Arunima Mukherjee, Geoffrey Walsham, Thomas Hylland Eriksen

There is growing global consensus that the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and particularly the Internet, are providing a new framework and huge opportunities for economic, political and social development. This book explores case studies across India, Kenya, Guatemala, Sri Lanka,...