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,

Building in Partnership with the Maasai

This publication presents the process of participatory technology development (PTD) working with local training institutions, women's groups and development agents to design and build improved housing. Experiments with stabilised soil blocks, rammed earth walling, ferro-cement roofing and rainwater...

Training for Transformation (IV)

Anne Hope, Sally Timmel

Training for Transformation Book 4 is a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers. It recognises that the only changes which effectively transform the lives of poor people are those in which they have been active participants and focuses on five issues which have become mor...

Women and Integrated Pest Management

E van de Fliert

Rural women, on average, spend more time working on pest management than men. Yet truly integrated pest management (IPM) is not possible without women; nevertheless, few publications are available. This wide-ranging book introduces many of the issues, such as reasons for women's involvement (or lack...

Manual de Formacao em Genero da Oxfam

Suzanne Williams

This comprehensive approach to gender training in development encompasses work on gender awareness-raising and gender analysis at the individual, community and global level. An important reference source for development agency trainers and academics. This is a large, comprehensive manual that acknow...

Development @ IT

Deborah Howard

This booklet provides an introduction to the concepts of appropriate and sustainable technologies, and how these technologies can improve people's lives.