Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment

Sarah C White, Asha Abeyasekera

Human development may encompass social, cultural and spiritual facets as well as economic improvement, and development organizations are beginning to recognize this fact. But building into programming a wider understanding of development throws up a number of questions: how do our organizations defi...

Perspectives énergétiques des populations pauvres 2014

La pauvreté énergétique est un élément accablant du piège de la pauvreté qui condamne les personnes qui en sont victimes à vivre une vie de corvées et d'activités de subsistance. Au cours des dernières années, nous avons pu constater l'émergence de préoccupations en matière de pauvreté énergétique s...

Poor People's Energy Outlook 2014

Energy poverty is a crippling component of the poverty trap that consigns victims to lives of drudgery and subsistence. Accordingly, we have recently seen the rise of concern for energy access on the international stage. However, at the national level the gravity of this issue has yet to be fully ap...

Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes

Bas Verschuuren, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Wim Hiemstra

There is a growing recognition that living well must go beyond economic and material plenty to encompass social and spiritual well-being. But what do we understand by these wider aspects of well-being? Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the concept of human w...

Into the Unknown

Robert Chambers

Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the direction that ‘development’ is taking. Robert Chambers reflects on experiences, which led him to examine personal bias...

Training for Transformation in Practice

Anne Hope, Sally Timmel

Training for Transformation is an approach to community organization encompassed in three books which enables people to ‘read their reality and write their own history’ using a combination of group processes, socio-economic analysis and organizational development processes. Since its inception 40...

Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services

Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, John Thomas

Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sect...

Briquette Production Process

This is a poster that illustrates both carbonised and non carbonised briquette production process.

Solar PV Energy in Nepal

Renewable energy practices in Nepal

Stone Arch Bridges

Construction of stone arch bridges.