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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Waste Pickers in Dhaka
Waste pickers in Dhaka make their living by selling recyclable items collected from dumped waste. Most are children living on the streets or in slums where they have little access to infrastructure, a low status in society and an uncertain future. This book is based on a period of fieldwork in Dhaka...
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Information Design and Distance Learning for International Development
This book presents an investigation by research into the ways in which distance learning is affected by the physical design of printed study materials. In particular, it examines the use of engineering drawing systems for illustrated, instructional texts concerned with technical aspects of infrastru...
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Managing Small-Scale Fisheries
Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative directions and methods
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Operation, Maintenance and Sustainability of Services for the Urban Poor: Findings, lessons learned and case studies summary and analysis
This book presents the preliminary findings of the case studies completed to date (in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India). The report provides an assessment of the operation and maintenance status within the communities illustrated in the studies and has sought to highlight the success and failure of the...