Development studies
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Roads and Realities
Offers ideas and techniques that are likely to be of great help to both policy makers and construction professionals. The core themes are the use of appropriate technology and appropriate scale. Developing countries require effective and sustainable infrastructures. Yet these must be suitable and ut...
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Seeding Solutions Volume 1
Seeding Solutions: Volume 1. Policy options for genetic resources. People, Plants, and Patents revisited
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 1. Guiding Principles for Policymakers, Planners and Engineers
Guiding Principles is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It presents an overview of principles and offers guidance for the development of an action planning approach to improve services for the urban poor within a policy context which sup...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 2. Working with Partners - Guidance for Policymakers, Planners and Engineers
Working with Partners is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It reviews the roles of different stakeholders in service provision, including government, civil society and external agencies. A number of common constraints are identified and...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 3. Action Planning Guidelines for Planners and Engineers
Action Planning Guidelines: Parts 3a, 3b and 3c is aimed primarily at senior local programme managers, including urban engineers and planners. It proposes a framework for action planning to develop local neighbourhood plans and area service plans for networked infrastructure which focuses on the imp...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 4. Technical Guidelines for Planners and Engineers
Technical Guidelines: Parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e and 4f is aimed primarily at urban engineers and planners. It provides a range of different tools for detailed planning and guidelines for design. The tools cover different technical options for service improvements to urban poor areas, including 'handy...
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Services for the Urban Poor 5 From Action Plans to Implementation
From Action Plans to Implementation is aimed primarily at urban engineers. It provides guidance on taking local action plans forward to the stage of implementing service improvements at the field level, including administrative procedures for technical and financial approval and the different option...
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Services for the Urban Poor 6 Operation and Maintenance
Operation and Maintenance is aimed primarily at urban engineers and planners. It presents different strategies for managing O&M and considers how these can be applied to produce detailed plans for improved operation and maintenance at the neighbourhood, Ward and Municipal levels.
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Performance Monitoring of Micro-Contracts for the Procurement of Urban Infrastructure
This document presents the findings from Project R6857 Performance Monitoring of Infrastructure Procurement for Urban Low Income Communities carried out by the authors as part of the Knowledge and Research Programme, Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, Department for International Devel...
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