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...

Gender Dimensions in Disaster Management

Madhavi Ariyabandu

This is the first book to look at gender issues in disasters in the context of South Asia, where disasters have a crucial impact on the development process. It shows how exploring the specific capacities and vulnerabilities of men and women in disaster situations, and taking account of them, will im...

The Humanitarian Companion

John Ehrenreich

Humanitarian workers -- working in their own country or overseas -- face many common challenges. This book will help them, and those training them, prepare both practically and emotionally for the wide range of challenges, dangers and insecurities that are an everyday part of their work. Written...

Indigenous Knowledge Inquiries

Paul Sillitoe, Peter Dixon, Julian Barr

This manual is for development programme managers and project leaders who wish to incorporate an indigenous knowledge element into their work. The guidelines acknowledge that the design and management of IK-informed projects involve making decisions about many closely interrelated issues. They take...

Industrial Competitiveness in Africa

Sanjaya Lall, Erika Kraemer-Mbula

This book describes Africa’s position within the current industrial global setting and analyses the recent performance of African manufacturing relative to that of other developing regions. It stresses the rapidly changing technological challenges faced by African economies and Africa’s poor respons...

Africa - Up in Smoke?

Andrew Simms

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...

Practitioners and Poverty Alleviation

Sue Jones, Nici Nelson

How can we ensure effective action on urban poverty? How do we bridge the gap between practitioners and those deciding policy? There is a serious communication gap between those at the top who formulate policy and those below who implement it. This book looks at how development institutions are tryi...