Learning from Gal Oya

Norman Uphoff

This first paperback edition recounts the drama of a remarkably successful experiment that introduced farmer organization for self-managed development in the largest and most run-down conflict-ridden irrigation system in Sri Lanka and now updates the story to record the author's picture of Gal Oya i...

The Life Industry

Miges Baumann

There are many contentious issues surrounding biodiversity and different priorities for the many stakeholders involved. This book presents some of the arguments from the leading experts on the issues as well as reflecting the collective learning and debate from grassroots NGOs, journalists, industri...

Road Maintenance and Regravelling (ROMAR) Using Labour-Based Methods

Claes-Axel Andersson

Written for the owners or managers of small construction businesses, the ROMAR books provide both the management and technical advice needed in order to make a success of routine maintenance and regravelling as a business activity. The handbook and workbook can be used together by reading the chapte...

Road Maintenance and Regravelling (ROMAR) Using Labour-Based Methods

Claes-Axel Andersson

The ROMAR handbook and workbook are each divided into two parts, the first covering principles and the second dealing with the practice of labour-based road construction and maintenance. The route map in the section on How to use your ROMAR books will help you to find your way around, and concentrat...

Rural Transport

This source book seeks to raise awareness and to provide information on how rural transport problems might be identified and addressed, focusing on women since they carry the main burden. The book highlights rural transport activities and needs, considers household and other agricultural transport n...

Small Business in Transition Economies

Jacob Levitsky

With the collapse of the communist central planning regimes throughout Eastern and Central Europe and the vast area of the former Soviet Union there has been a trend toward building up a significant private sector and encouraging dynamic growth in the emerging markets of national economies. The dono...

Societies in Transition

Caroline Sweetman

The Focus on Gender series makes available in book form the contents of the Oxfam journal Gender and Development. Highlighting practice as well as theory, the thematic series makes the resource available to students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in particular topics. Chang...

Solar Heating in Cold Regions

Jean-François Rozis

This book is primarily a technical guide to the design and production of solar installations in regions where heating is an issue of utmost importance. This book is written mainly for technicians, architects and designers who are interested in solar heating systems in cold regions of developing coun...

Speaking Out

Marilyn Carr

This volume draws together the experiences of seven South Asian NGOs in organizing rural and urban poor women for economic empowerment. Going beyond the normal descriptive accounts of the work of these NGOs, it throws new light on how changes are occurring at the grassroots level, and analyses and d...

Starting a Small Food Processing Enterprise

Peter Fellows

This book brings together important aspects of both the technological and business skills needed to successfully start and operate a small food processing business. The emphasis is on thorough planning before the enterprise is established and then careful control of production to minimize costs and...