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...

Evaluation of the Hoffman Kiln Technology

Evaluation of Hoffmann kiln technology for a low cost solid waste incinerator.

Utilization of Cow-dung in Brickmaking

Addition of certain organic materials improves the plasticity of clay making it more workable.

The Heart of the War in Colombia

Constanza Ardila-Galvez

Alice Jay

The Heart of the War in Colombia is a testimony of those whose lives have been torn asunder by war and displacement in Colombia. It seeks to accomplish the impossible task of giving it a human face, a depth of social and political analysis, carried out by its very lucid participants, to the ongoing...

Pinochet

Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Using interviews, eye-witness accounts and quotes from sources on Pinochet, this volume tracks the General's journey from his rise to power in 1973 to his unprecedented arrest and internment in Britain in October 1998. It contains revelations about the financial dealings of the Pinochet regime, and...