Resilient Family Farm

Gaye Burpee

The Resilient Family Farm is an interdisciplinary primer written for those who are involved in or who support rural development. Part I highlights the economic and ecological realities of the small family farm, while Part II examines the role of the development organization in supporting farm famili...

Restocking Pastoralists

Claire Heffernan

Restocking can be an effective means of poverty alleviation, which enables poor households to be incorporated back into the social and economic fabric of pastoralism. Nevertheless, at present the sustainability of projects is low. This book responds to the previous failures of restocking projects by...

Rigged Rules and Double Standards

Kevin Watkins

Trade is one of the most powerful forces linking our lives, and a source of unprecedented wealth. Yet millions of the world's poorest people are being left behind. Increased prosperity has gone hand in hand with mass poverty. Already obscene inequalities between rich and poor are widening. World tra...

See Both Sides

Karen Richardson

Published by Oxfam GBs UK Poverty Programme Gender analysis has been used in international development for many years. It is now widely recognised that a better understanding of the particular needs of women and men makes a significant difference in the fight against poverty and disadvantage. This h...

Low-Cost Waste Incinerator Overview

The low-cost waste incinerator (LCI) is a cheap and basic structure which deals with domestic waste. It consists of an inner refractory incinerator surrounded by an outer protective wall made and is made from standard cement blocks, bricks and steel. These drawings give an overview of the various co...

Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine

The Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine is an improvement on standard pit latrines that eliminates flies and odour.

Low Cost Incinerator Construction Notes

Guide for the construction of a low cost incinerator

Autonomy or Dependence?

Vicky Mancuso Brehm

Autonomy or Dependence? explores the concept and practice of ‘partnership’ between non-government organisations (NGOs) in the North and South. Based on a rigourous four-year study, the book draws together the perspectives of a group of European NGOs and compares these with the experiences of a selec...

Out in the Cold: Emergency water supply and sanitation for cold regions (3rd Edition)

Mark Buttle

During the 1990s, events in the Balkans, countries of the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan and Northern Iraq have demonstrated that humanitarian disasters are not confined to 'the South' but may strike anywhere in the world. As a result, relief agencies have been tested in ways previously unimaginab...

PPP and the Poor: Water and Sanitation Tariffs for the Poor(Guidance Notes)

M Sohail

The design of water and sanitation tariffs is a key issues in the provision of services to the poor. This book is concerned with issues relatomg to the design of pro-poor water and sanitation tariffs.