You Pay for What You Get

Markus Arbenz

Four case studies from ex-Soviet Union, Asia and Africa illustrate how development projects put their claim into practice.

Mapping the Shift in Business Development Services

Malcolm Harper, Jim Tanburn

Small enterprises not only need credit they also need many other services: training, advice, marketing, supplies, premises, accountancy, materials, technology and many others. Without them, credit alone may do no more than add the burden of debt to all the other problems entrepreneurs have to face....

Methods in Development Research

Jeremy Holland, John Campbell

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhance...

Money with a Mission Volume 1

James Copestake, Martin Greeley, Susan Johnson, Naila Kabeer, Anton Simanowitz

This book presents the findings of an action research programme into how far poverty-oriented microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are contributing to global poverty reduction, and how they can do so more effectively.Martin Greeley reviews evidence on their success in...

Money with a Mission Volume 2

Alyson Brody, Martin Greeley, Katie Wright-Revolledo

This book reflects the implications of a social performance management agenda for the perspective of twelve partners from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, who participated in a three-year microfinance action-research programme known as Imp-Act. It features contributions from MFI staff who wor...

Participatory Livestock Research

Czech Conroy

This book is the first to offer an introduction to participatory research for livestock development. Despite the attention paid to participatory research methodologies in other areas of agricultural development, participatory livestock work has been relatively neglected despite the evident relevance...

Paying the Price

Arabella Fraser

Bethan Emmett

Progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals has fallen far short of the promises made in 2000. At the current rate, all but one of them will certainly be missed. The cost of failure will be high: 45 million more children will die between now and 2015 than would be the case if the world...

Developing Groundwater

Alan MacDonald, Jeff Davies, Roger Calow, John Chilton

In many rural areas, groundwater is the only feasible way of providing safe, reliable water supplies. However, developing groundwater is not always straightforward. To meet the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals, more attention needs to be paid to finding and developing groundwater...

Gender and ICTs for Development

Minke Valk, Sarah Cummings, Henk van Dam

Around the world information and communication technologies (ICTs) have changed the lives of individuals, organisations and indeed, entire nations. ICTs can have profound implications for women and men in terms of employment, education, health, environmental sustainability, and community development...

Gender and the Millennium Development Goals

Caroline Sweetman

This collection of articles focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the th...