Sustainable Sewerage

R.A. Reed

This handbook describes how conventional sewerage schemes can be modified to reduce the cost of construction and maintenance and suggests methods of prioritizing sewerage needs. Also surveys planning, selection, design, management and maintenance of community schemes as well as providing financial a...

Technical Principles of Building for Safety

Andrew Coburn, Richard Hughes, Antonios Pomonis, Robin Spence

This book describes principles and construction techniques for builders, householders and communities who are building in hazard-prone areas. The principles are clearly and simply presented- and in a form which can be adapted for use in training or public information campaigns - with an emphasis on...

Transforming Development

Margaret Snyder

Transforming Development is uniquely appropriate reading at a time when civil society and the private sector are popular concepts and foreign aid is under fire. This books shows that given the chance, women are instrumental in expanding and democratizing national economies: they create wealth and fa...

Women and Rights

Caroline Sweetman

This book explores issues of women's rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation; the special human-rights problems of women in situations of conflict or as refugees; violence against women as a human rights violation; the rights of disabled women and the importanc...

Women in Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprise Development

Louise Dignard, Jose Havet

Women's role in enterprise development is now acknowledged as crucial, and a sense of urgency seems to beset all practitioners in the field. This book presents the complexity of women's situations in micro- and small-scale enterprises, and the importance of the issues being addressed, through the br...

Women's Roles in Technical Innovation

Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge,...

Words into Action

Pat Simmons

This work looks at some of the main obstacles which prevent poor people from claiming the basic rights to which they are entitled, such as the widening prosperity gap, the world trade system and debt. It tells of the hard-won successes of people who are working at all levels, from village council to...

The Alms Bazaar

Ian Smillie

Written by an insider, this study of international development agencies ranges from Biafra to Rwanda, from administrative costs to participatory development, from the bright hopes of the 1960s to the implications of the latest Mexican financial crisis. The phenomenon of the transnational mega-charit...

Affordable Water Supply and Sanitation

John Pickford, Peter Barker, Adrian Load, Tom Dijkstra

The editors consider the different aspects of, and the issues surrounding, affordable water supply and sanitation. They consider both 'software' aspects - people, communities, health, management and institutions - as well as technological considerations such as waste management.

Agents of Change

Georges Hénault, E Philip English

This book discusses national strategies for small enterprise, examines legal, regulatory, and tax reform, and makes proposals on how to improve competitiveness and access to credit. Agents of Change provides practical solutions and suggestions for real change, and will be of interest to scholars, st...