How to Set up and Manage a Resource Centre

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.

Evaporative Cooling

Keeping produce fresh with refrigeration methods that require no external power.

Inside Colombia

Grace Livingstone

This work is an introduction to who's who and what is really happening in Colombia. In one volume, it brings together the best material published on the war, the economy, social impact and prospects of peace in Colombia. It sets out, in a clear journalistic style, the human rights and internal refug...

Home Composting Bins

Composting is encouraged as a means of dealing with organic waste and can offer many benefits such as enhanced soil fertility.

Lime Juice - Small-scale Production

Making fresh limes into lime juice can alleviate the problem of getting them to the fruit market in a state where they still fetch a good price.

Politics Transformed

Sue Branford, Bernardo Kucinski, Hilary Wainwright

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) became Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leaders since Salvador Allende on October 27, 2002. He achieved nearly 62 per cent of the vote, to become the first left-wing politician to win his country's presidency. But behind this victory for Lula an...

Trapped

Binka Le Breton

Globally, the illegal trade in humans is surpassed only by that in drugs and arms. This work explores some of the life stories behind this scandal and tragedy by looking at one of the regions where debt bondage is still common - the Brazilian Amazon. The author, a British journalist turned farmer in...

Contracting Out Water and Sanitation Services: Volume 1.

Kevin Sansom, Richard Franceys

The main objective of the research is the analysis of corruption in infrastructure delivery. This includes a review of accountability initiatives in infrastructure delivery and the nature of the impact of greater accountability. This book focuses on the use of service and management contracts. The k...

Contracting Out Water and Sanitation Services: Volume 2.

Kevin Sansom, Richard Franceys

This book presents contract analyses and case studies from around the world which draw out key lessons both for the local and international reader. The key questions addressed are: Where and how is contracting out being undertaken in the water sector and by whom? Is contracting out delivering benefi...

Small is Beautiful

E.F Schumacher

Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation,...