Development studies
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The Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG)
This guide describes how to make a small permanent magnet generator for wind turbines.
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Best Practice in Solid Waste Management
This guide demonstrates successful waste management in Nepal.
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Construction Manual for Earthquake-Resistant Houses Built of Earth
The solutions proposed in this manual concentrate on low-cost single-story houses, built from earth in rural areas of earthquake-prone zones. They are based on research projects carried out at the Forschungslabor für Experimentelles Bauen (Building Research Laboratory) of the University of Kassel,...
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Evaluating Empowerment
Evaluating Empowerment is the fourth book in a series based on International Workshops on the Evaluation of Social Development and is based on the Fourth International Workshop held in Oxford in April 2000. It includes a number of commissioned papers by Anisur Rahman, Musimbi Kanyoro, Frits Wils and...
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Evaluation des télécentres communautaires
Evaluation des télécentres communautaires: Un guide à lintention des chercheurs
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Sweeping Business: Developing Entrepreneurial Skills for the Collection of Solid Waste
This book presents the findings of a Department for International Development (DFID) funded project (R6540). It has been written for practitioners, municipal staff, non-government organizations and students interested in promoting micro-enterprises for the collection of solid waste. The project has...
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Outcome Mapping
Outcome Mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs
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PPP and the Poor: Interim findings - Part A (Summary and Lessons Learned)
The purpose of the project Public Private Partnerships and the Poor in Water and Sanitation is to determine workable processes whereby the needs of the poor are promoted in strategies which encourage public-private partnerships (PPP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. One of t...
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PPP and the Poor: Interim Findings - Part B (case studies)
The purpose of the project Public Private Partnerships and the Poor in Water and Sanitation is to determine workable processes whereby the needs of the poor are promoted in strategies which encourage public-private partnerships (PPP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. One of t...
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Responsibility to Protect
Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty