Anticipatory Humanitarian Action in Nepal

This document focuses on resource centres for health workers. Information is especially important for training health workers helping them to understand the context of their work, follow new approaches, undertake new responsibilities, improve their practice and remind them of basic concepts.

Does Community Development Work?

Peter Westoby, Lucius Botes

What makes community development effective? How can we ensure that this work is responsive to the decolonial turn, the call for effectiveness and the need for justice? Highlighting useful practice frameworks for community development workers – both citizens and professionals – to navigate an incr...

40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development

Peter Westoby, David Palmer, Athena Lathouras,

Who are the great activists, thinkers and writers who can inspire us in our community development work? Environmentalists, poets, philosophers, civil rights activists, trade unionists – all can help us question the assumptions that underlie our international development practice. This book invite...

Perspectives énergétiques des populations pauvres 2019

Practical Action

Les PPEO 2019 sont l’aboutissement de cinq années de recherches pour explorer par quels moyens donner corps aux types de services énergétiques qui permettraient aux populations pauvres en énergie de prospérer. Le rapport synthétise et met à jour les messages et recommandations clés en matière de pla...

Communication for Development

Jessica Noske-Turner

From girl’s education awareness and action, to attitudes towards violence against children, communication for development (C4D) is a critical tool for sharing knowledge and creating social change. Evaluating how effective such communication has been in creating social change presents challenges. How...

Insights on Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is emerging as a key approach to climate change and a fundamental pillar for sustainable development. The objective of this summary report is to highlight the lessons learned from the field implementation of ten case studies presented at the regional contest.

Poor People's Energy Outlook 2019

Practical Action

PPEO 2019 is the culmination of five years’ research, exploring what it takes to realise the kinds of energy services that enable people living in energy poverty to thrive. The report compiles and updates key messages and recommendations on energy access planning (PPEO 2016), financing (PPEO 2017) a...

Demonstrating evidence on Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Developing countries depend to a large extent on the ecosystems and the services they provide. Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is emerging as a potential response to climate change and a key pillar for sustainable development. UN Environment Programme under the Regional Portal for the Transfer of T...

Interlocking Brick (CSEB) Production Manual

Interlocking Bricks (CSEB) are made by mixing Soil, Sand and Cement and compressing it in a machine. It is an Earthquake resistant technology recommended by the government of Nepal. It is fast to build with and on average 25% less cost compared to fired bricks.

Indoor Oyster Mushroom Farming

This technical brief details the cultivation of oyster mushrooms from spawning to harvesting. It also discusses oyster mushroom cultivation as an adaptive and crop diversification technique in flood plains to minimize risk of flood and drought to livelihood.