Poverty, Social Exclusion and Microfinance in Britain

Ben Rogaly

This is an analysis of the potential of community-based financial services to reduce poverty and combat social exclusion in Britain. From this base, the authors move to a critical review of the outcomes of microfinance interventions around the world. They consider innovative economic responses to po...

Gender and Technology

Caroline Sweetman

The delivery of new technologies to communities in developing countries has been hailed as the key to economic and social progress. However, women’s experiences show that this view is an exaggeration, over-simplifying the potential of technology to deliver `development`. Different technologies in va...

Gender Works

Fenella Porter

Based on a participatory process involving many Oxfam GB staff, Gender Works gives a multi-faceted account of the organisation's attempt to intergrate gender issues into its work and culture over the past 15 years. It is an important book for development poliy-makers and practitioners as well as aca...

A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks

Ines Smyth

This is a single-volume guide to all the main analytical frameworks for gender-sensitive research and planning, based on a pack developed for Oxfam staff and partners. Different frameworks that have been developed are described as well as step-by-step instructions for their use with summaries of the...

Impact Assessment for Development Agencies

Chris Roche

Considering the process of impact assessment, this book shows how and why it needs to be integrated into all stages of development programmes - from planning to evaluation. Its basic premise is that impact assessment should not refer to the immediate outputs of a project or programme but to any last...

Making Common Ground

Geoffrey Payne

This book provides a comprehensive review of experience in designing and implementing a wide range of partnerships for efficient and equitable use of urban land. Using examples from countries throughout the world and at all levels of economic development,

Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply

John Gould

Erik Nissen-Petersen

Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply provides a state-of-the-art review of practice in the collection of rainwater. It presents case studies with numerous examples from around the world which will help anyone intending to design or construct a rainwater catchment system. The prime focus o...

Roots of Change

Brent Simpson

The Roots of Change focuses attention on the source of local agrarian change: human creativity and social interaction. Building on the view that these innate human characteristics are central forces in the evolution of local agricultural systems, this volume explores the patterns of farmers' individ...

Running Water

Rod Shaw

This second collection of 32 short, highly-illustrated introductions to appropriate water and sanitation technologies and processes complements The Worth of Water. It covers a further range of subjects from water source selection and handpump maintenance to sanitary surveying, hygiene understanding...

Rural Energy Services

Teresa Anderson, Alison Doig, Dai Rees, Smail Khennas

Rural Energy Services addresses the policy, market and sustainability aspects of defining and selecting technologies that will meet the demands for energy services by rural villages in a sustainable and reliable way. It offers a participative approach to the supply of energy services with a clear em...