Removing Unfreedoms

Jane Samuels

This book takes Amartya Sen's concept of development as freedom and applies it, for the first time, to the challenges of urban development across the globe. Cities are the crucial battleground for the future: they can either become settlements of intense poverty and community conflict or the centres...

Chemical Warfare in Colombia

Sue Branford, Hugh O'Shaughnessy

While the US wages the 'War on Terror' in the Middle East, it is conducting a terror campaign of its own closer to home. Chemical spraying is being used in Colombia as a deterrent and to destroy 'illicit' coca crops. But most people growing coca are poor campesinos with no alternatives to make a liv...

The Development of Civil Society in Central Asia

Janice Giffen, Lucy Earle, Charles Buxton

The Development of Civil Society in Central Asia considers the applicability and use of civil society, both as a concept and in practice, in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The volume examines whether civil society organisations (CSOs) are a progressive force for cha...

Last Resorts 2nd Edition

Polly Patullo

The Caribbean has the fortune--and the misfortune--to be everyone's idea of a tropical paradise. Its sun, sand and scenery attract millions of visitors each year and make it a profitable destination for the world's fastest growing industry. Tourism is increasingly touted as its only hope of creating...

Water Harvesting in Sudan

In semi-arid zones such as North Darfur where the rainfall is concentrated over short periods of time, various approaches to balancing water demand with supply, such as rain water harvesting, are described in this brief.

Dead-Level Contours

This brief describes the use of contours and shows how to construct the Manama in-field rainwater harvesting storage facility.

Building with the Community

Brian Reed

Engineers and technicians working on development projects are becoming more aware of the need for the participation of local people, and that women, in particular, should be involved closely at all stages of the project cycle. This booklet sets out why engineers should involve both men and women in...

Assessing Sanitation Policy: a series of WEDC Briefing Notes

Kevin Tayler

This series of Briefing Notes Assessing Sanitation Policy is based on lessons learned from national sanitation policy assessments carried out in Ghana and Nepal, together with the review and assessment of sanitation policy in these and other countries. The Notes provide concise guidance on the impor...

PPP and the Poor: The Real Obstacles to Universal Access to Drinking Water in Developing Countries

Sarah Botton

M Sohail

The purpose of this article is to provide a retrospective analysis of two drinking water access programmes aimed at populations living in the poor neighbourhoods of (1) Buenos Aires (Argentina) and (2) Port-au-Prince (Haiti). The authors reflect on the real stakes behind these initiatives, based on...

Qualitative Research for Tobacco Control

Allison Mathie

Qualitative Research for Tobacco Control:A How-to Introductory Manual for Researchers and Development Practitioners