Development studies
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Women and Rights
This book explores issues of women's rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation; the special human-rights problems of women in situations of conflict or as refugees; violence against women as a human rights violation; the rights of disabled women and the importanc...
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Women in Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprise Development
Women's role in enterprise development is now acknowledged as crucial, and a sense of urgency seems to beset all practitioners in the field. This book presents the complexity of women's situations in micro- and small-scale enterprises, and the importance of the issues being addressed, through the br...
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Women's Roles in Technical Innovation
Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge,...
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Words into Action
This work looks at some of the main obstacles which prevent poor people from claiming the basic rights to which they are entitled, such as the widening prosperity gap, the world trade system and debt. It tells of the hard-won successes of people who are working at all levels, from village council to...
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Nutrition Matters
The classic disaster model of an emergency, which assumes simple cause and effect between food shortages, malnutrition and death, no longer holds. The nature and perceptions of emergencies are changing. In fact most emergency situations are protracted, with obvious political dimensions, and the grea...
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Training for Transformation
Three volumes designed to assist workers in the field who are encouraging the development of self-reliant creative communities. The book has as its basic philosophy the belief that we should all participate in making this world a more just place to live in. Training for Transformation integrates the...
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Inter-American Development Bank
The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the 'regional development banks' are little understood e...
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Intermediate Technology Transfer Unit
A highly successful network of Intermediate Technology Transfer Units has been established within Ghana, serving to foster and develop small-scale, informal industry. Since the founding of the first ITTU in 1980 the idea has flourished with such units being set up throughout Ghana. This handbook pro...
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Lime and Alternative Binders In East Africa
Elijah Agevi, Otto Ruskulis, Theo Schilderman
The demand for permanent housing requires production of binders to be significantly increased. A range of binders, especially lime, lime-pozzolana or special earths, can be more appropriate to certain types of building such as housing. Alternatives such as lime offer tremendous potential in reducing...
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Living with Uncertainty
The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas. With examples drawn from all over Af...