Development studies
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 4 - Ghana: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Accra
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Growing Better Cities
Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development
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How Small Water Enterprises can Contribute to the Millenium Development Goals
This book is one of the outputs from a project designed to identify and test out ways of improving the water services delivered to the urban poor through SWEs. As such, it will prove an invaluable resource for water utility managers and policymakers. The book includes accounts of fieldwork undertake...
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Improvement of Water Utility Management and Reduction of Unaccounted-for-Water
The African Water Utility Partnership for Capacity Building projects is part of the SIDA-funded Water Utility Partnership (WUP) Action Programme. WUP has pioneered a successful partnership between Severn Trent Water International , WEDC and six African water utilities to work together on the 'Improv...
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L'Alimentation en Eau et les Installations Sanitaires: pour les personnes handicapees
Plus de 500 millions de personnes dans le monde sont handicapées et la majorité d’entre elles vivent dans la pauvreté au sein de communautés à faible revenu. Le manque d’accès à des installations sanitaires et à l’eau potable constitue un facteur essentiel de la pauvreté de ces personnes. Il sera di...
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Water Safety Plans
This book has been written specifically for practitioners involved in the operation, maintenance and management of piped water distribution systems in urban areas of developing countries. These practitioners include engineers, planners, managers, and water professionals involved in the monitoring, c...
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Water Safety Plans - Book 3: Risk Assessment of Contaminant Intrusion into Water Distribution Systems
Book 3 is a manual for using the developed software, IRA-WDS (Improved Risk Assessment for Water Distribution Systems), a geographical information system (GIS) that aids in evaluating the risk of deterioration of the water distribution network of a water supply systems.
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Telecentres, Access, and Development:
The book is based on a review of national policy and implementation strategies, case studies of community ICT-access centres, and an analysis of the links between national strategies and on-the-ground experiences from 1996 through 2003. Over 50 ICT-access centres, from both rural and urban settings,...
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Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations
Tom Corsellis, Antonella Vitale
It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency....
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Turning off the Lights
Stephen Thomas, Iromi Ruana Rajepakse
The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) could threaten services and projects specifically aimed at or managed by poor communities. This book explains the nature of that threat, taking community-run electricity schemes in Sri Lanka as an example. It will help to g...