Development studies
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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...
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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".
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Electricity Services in Remote Rural Communities
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...
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Africa - Up in Smoke?
Copies of the Original 2005 Report and the 2006 Update Report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development. This Report finds that concerns about the effects of climate change on rural African societies are more than justified. Climate change is happening, and it is affecting livelihoods...
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Dictionary of Water Engineering
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...
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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...
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Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction
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...
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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...
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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...
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Foreign Territory
David McKeever, Jessica Scultz, Sophia Swithern
European Union asylum policy is shifting overseas. The politicisation of asylum-related issues and the desire to manage migration are the forces behind a wave of new internationalised initiatives which could have a serious impact on the lives of refugees.