Development studies
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Rebuilding Communities in Refugee Settlements
This book gives a critical account of a complex and ambitious refugee-settlement programme in support of 55,000 refugees who fled in 1993 from armed conflict in south Sudan into a remote and insecure region of north-west Uganda. In helping refugees to rebuild self-reliant, sustainable communities, O...
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Supporting Citizens Initiatives
This book explains the role currently played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh and answers the questions: Why are Bangladeshi NGOs praised throughout the development world, yet attacked within their own country? Why are NGOs which take foreign donations treated differently from...
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Supporting Citizens Initiatives
This book explains the role currently played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh and answers the questions: Why are Bangladeshi NGOs praised throughout the development world, yet attacked within their own country? Why are NGOs which take foreign donations treated differently from...
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Bacchanal!
For two days each year, Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain, hosts "the greatest show on Earth" - a raucous mix of music, costume and revelry known as Carnival. The festival has become more or less synonymous with the Caribbean island of Trinidad and is an intrinsic part of its identity and popular cu...
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Water Hyacinth
This document suggests solutions for the control of water hyacinth - biological, physical and chemical - and discusses possible practical applications of the plant.
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Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. This comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil and Chile. For each country the...
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Endangered Mexico
In this work, the author makes it clear that there is more to Mexico's environment than city smog. This book gives an account of the whole range of environmental problems which face Mexico's people, from tourist development to oil spills and land exhaustion. Setting his account against the backdrop...
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How to Measure the Energy Used to Fire Clay Bricks
What defines an energy-efficient brick-firing technology and how does it compare to other technologies?
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Rainwater Harvesting
This technology is used in places where conventional water supply systems are not provided, are too expensive, or fail to meet people's needs.
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The Sri Lankan Pumpkin Tank
A small scale roof water harvesting tank promoted in Sri Lanka by the World Bank.