Development studies
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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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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...
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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
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Responsibility to Protect
Thomas Weiss, G Thomas, Don Hubert
Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
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Power and Partnership?
Power and Partnership has emerged from the 1999 conference, 'NGOs in the Global Future', at the University of Birmingham. A panel set up to focus on NGO capacity-building. Invited individuals presented papers describing their actual experiences of NGO capacity-building to better understand how capac...