Violence against Women

Caroline Sweetman

This is a collection of articles from development practitioners and feminist activists placing violence against women, both direct and indirect, in the context of development. Violence is both a human rights issue and an obstacle to women's participation in development. Writers here focus on campaig...

Vocational Training in the Community

Reinhard Skinner

Vocational training is essential to equip rural and urban people with the skills to find employment, and this study of an integrated training project in El Salvador offers field-tested approaches and procedures which can be applied to vocational training

Water and Sanitation for All

John Pickford

Water and Sanitation for All is a collection of selected papers from the 23rd WEDC Conference in Durban, South Africa on partnerships and innovations to assist in achieving water and sanitation for all.

Who Changes?

James Blackburn, Jeremy Holland

The recent trend of participatory approaches presents challenges to those working in the development sector. Who Changes? draws together, for the first time, lessons and experiences from key development agencies around the globe on the institutional change needed to make participation a reality. T...

Whose Voice?

Jeremy Holland

PRA and related participatory approaches have opened up new ways in which policy can be influenced by the realities of those who are poor, weak, marginalized and excluded. With the increasing use of PRA methods and practices by NGOs, governments and multinational agencies, the potential impact for p...

Water Hyacinth

This document suggests solutions for the control of water hyacinth - biological, physical and chemical - and discusses possible practical applications of the plant.

Bacchanal!

Peter Mason

For two days each year, Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain, hosts "the greatest show on Earth" - a raucous mix of music, costume and revelry known as Carnival. The festival has become more or less synonymous with the Caribbean island of Trinidad and is an intrinsic part of its identity and popular cu...

Composting in the Tropics

Organic matter is often piled up in the compound but left unmanaged. This will produce compost but the materials will take a long time to decompose and nutrients will be lost.

Demystifying Organisational Development

Rick James

Organisation Development (OD) consultancy is being prioritised by many Northern NGOs as a key strategy for building the capacity for NGOs in the South. Few NGO decision-makers, however, are sure of what OD consultancy looks like in practice; whether it does really strengthen NGOs; and on what factor...

How to make Sri Lanka's Anagi Stove

A step-by-step guide to making a two pot ceramic stove.