Bridging Research and Policy in Development

Julius Court

This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy. International policy making is extremely complex and little studied. This book reviews what we do already know and provides a concept...

Building Bridges with the Grassroots

Otto Ruskulis

Theo Schilderman

About one billion people now live in the slums of the towns and cities of the developing world. And their number is set to double by 2030, unless concerted efforts are made to the contrary. Slums provide an unhealthy and dangerous living environment, and improving the living conditions of slum dwell...

Communities and Communication

Patrick Wakely, Elizabeth Riley

The current paradigm of partnership in urban development and management is widely used and accepted but there is little understanding of what makes partnerships work or fail. The broad premise that underpins this book is that a partnership is a relationship based on an agreement to share both benefi...

Connecting the First Mile

Surmaya Talyarkhan, David Grimshaw, Lucky Lowe

This paper summarizes the findings from a research project conducted by ITDG and Cranfield School of Management (Bedford, UK) into using ICTs (like the Internet or mobile telephony) to share information with people at grassroots level - "connecting the first mile".

Dictionary of Water Engineering

K.D. Nelson

The Dictionary of Water Engineering provides an essential, up-to-date and economically priced source of information on all aspects of water engineering and technology. Emphasis is placed on the needs of poorer communities and on the importance of environmental sustainability. The entries cover the m...

Electricity Services in Remote Rural Communities

Teodoro Sanchez

This book describes the design and use of a particular management model for electricity services in isolated rural communities. This model was designed with the clear objective of efficient financial and technical management, taking into account the social and economic environment and the committed...

Energy For Rural Livelihoods

Alison Doig, Yacob Mulugetta, Simon Dunnett, Tim Jackson, Smail Khennas

This manual presents a range of analytical techniques to assist in evaluating and comparing energy technology options from a variety of important perspectives. The work distils experiences and draws lessons from previous rural energy activities, and presents a variety of relevant analysis tools that...

Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction

Jason Clay

Foreign direct investment is recognised to be important for economic development, in terms of wealth creation, employment, skills development, and technology transfer. But there is an on-going debate about the extent to which these contributions translate into real benefits for people living in pove...

A Farmers' Jury

Stuart Coupe, Jon Hellin, Absolom Masendeke, Elijah Rusike

This ITDG Working Paper analyses the experience of a farmers' jury in Zimbabwe. Representatives of poor farmers mapped out their vision for the future of agriculture in their country after hearing from policy makers and technical experts of every shade of opinion. The ITDG Working Papers are designe...

Food Sovereignty

Michael Windfuhr, Jennie Jonsén

Food Sovereignty is the new policy framework proposition for the governance of food and agriculture. It embraces policies not only for localising the control of production and markets, but also for the Right to Food, people’s access to and control over land, water and genetic resources, and for pro...