Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

Jonathan Ensor, Rachel Berger, Saleemul Huq

As climate becomes less predictable and extreme weather events become more frequent, there is an urgent need for support that will help communities to prepare and adapt to changing conditions. This support is needed at the local level as well as the national, and must be framed by appropriate policy...

Contribution to Change

Roger Few, Daniel McAvoy, Marcela Tarazona, Vivien Margaret Walden

As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves. Agencies must now provide evidence of impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose...

ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction

Edith Ofwona Adera, Timothy M. Waema, Julian May, Ophelia Mascarenhas, Kathleen Diga

This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in East African and Southern African countries. It addresses the questions: Under what conditions do women benefit economically from using ICTs? How are the livelihoods of rural users affected?...

Peasants and the Art of Farming

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within peasant farms. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg argues that peasant agriculture can play an...

Small-Scale Papermaking

Paper making is a good example of how a small-scale industry can be developed to make use of local resources and cater for local markets while keeping capital investment down.

Monitoring checklists: Water points and latrines

These check-lists have been developed to monitor water and sanitation infrastructure development in rural communities. They can be used as a training guide for community management committees and water point supervisors.

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Technologies in Bangladesh

Renewable energy practices in Bangladesh.

Delivery Model of Wood Gasifier Stoves in Sri Lanka

Instead of burning the fuel-wood with a complete combustion to generate heat directly, a wood gasifier stove, which is also called a Forced Draft Wood Gasifier Stove, follows a two-step process. This two stage process leads to more complete combustion, releasing less smoke and less emission, particu...

Grass Roots Injury Prevention

Diana Samarakkody, Elizabeth Davis, Rod McClure

Books about injury prevention tend to explain only the principles and leave it to the practitioner to apply them in the course of their everyday interactions. Thus there is a large gap, between “what works in principle” and “how to make it work in practice”. The purpose of this book is to translate...

Feminists in Development Organizations

Rosalind Eyben, Laura Turquet

Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international NGOs.The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ positioned on the...