How to Grow Your Own Onion Seed

Here is some basic information on how to grow onions and produce onion seeds. The document focuses on Burkina Faso but this approach can be used in many other locations.

Low-Cost Civil works for Micro-Hydro Schemes

Civil works can suffer from cracking and significant scour damage. This document looks at some of the approaches that were taken to combat these problems in hydro schemes in the Cajamarca region of Peru.

Preparation of Risk Maps

This document looks at risk map usage in the emergency preparedness project in Peru, recognising that more comprehensive risk-reduction strategies are constantly emerging.

Stone Arch Bridges

Stone arch bridges are a strong and cost effective technology for rural roads. This manual provides supervisors of stone arch bridge works an easy step by step guide ensuring adherence to quality requirements and construction methodology.

BDS Facilitators manual

A toolkit produced in partnership with Practical Action Consulting East Africa (PAC EA) and Strategic Business Advisors under Land O' Lakes for super and local facilitators on business development services with lessons taken from the Kenya Dairy Sector Competitiveness program

Fuel briquettes

Biomass briquettes are made by pressing loose biomass residues, or waste, to produce compact solid blocks of different sizes and shapes. They are made by applying pressure, heat and binding agent to the loose materials to produce the briquettes of different shapes and sizes.

Contracting for Water Point Construction

This manual lists the provisional and final acceptance forms for water point construction.

K

Bernardo Kucinski

Sue Branford

A remarkable novel written by the Brazilian journalist Bernardo Kucinski. K is the story of a father who searches desperately for his daughter, ‘disappeared’ during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The father is himself a refugee from Poland in the 1930s. He is racked by feelings of guilt—that b...

Savings Groups at the Frontier

Candace Nelson

Savings Groups reach those rarely served by mainstream financial institutions.Maximum transparency, a profitable structure for saving, access to small loans and an annual lump sum of capital are the hallmarks of the savings group methodology. The outcome: empowered groups, made up mostly of women, w...

Vers la Résilience

Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe

Vers Résilience: Un guide pour la réduction des risques de catastrophes et adaptation au changement climatique est une ressource d'introduction pour le développement et les acteurs humanitaires travaillant avec les populations à risque de catastrophes et autres impacts du changement climatique. Il e...