Fruit Preserves - Jams, Jellies and Marmalades

An introduction to small-scale jams, jellies and marmalades making, Known collectively as preserves.

Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation

Esther Mebrahtu, Brian Pratt, Linda Lonnqvist

Do any of these monitoring and evaluation issues sound familiar? It feels like your monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has to demonstrate that your project is perfect. Your funder demands M&E data that's too cumbersome to collect. M&E feels more like an impediment than a resource to your work. Your M&E...

Guideline for Building Power Thresher

Step by step pictorial description of how to build a power thresher cost effectively.

Making Stabilised Soil Blocks

Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.

Pepper Processing

Pepper processing looks at the main post harvest activities. These activities include sorting, threshing and drying.

Capacity Building Framework

Brenda Lipson, Martina Hunt

The design and implementation of successful capacity building programmes involves a range of complex processes and considerations. This practical guide draws on INTRAC’s experience in capacity building consultancy and programme work and on its successful international training in capacity building....

Clove Processing

Cloves are the unopened flower buds of the evergreen tree and are used to flavour foods and drinks. They are also used to produce essential oil used in dentistry and as a cleaning agent in microscopy. The steps in obtaining and processing it are shown here.

Promoting Local Innovation in Sudan

The aims of this publication are to focus on the collection and classification of Sudanese local innovations using a "bottom-up" approach, to take into account the historical depth and the potential use that may highlight the continuity and changes in local innovations as indicators of society trans...

Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption: A Note on Research Methodology for Combating Corruption

Sue Cavill

M Sohail

This document presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyze corruption in the infrastructure sector. This methodology was piloted in South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Georgia, Ukraine and nepal in 2005-2006. The sustainability of the l...

Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption: Literature Review

Sue Cavill

M Sohail

This review describes accountability arrangements to combat corruption in the infrastructure sector. The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, s...