SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers
Focuses on the principles underlying evaluation, and deals with issues to be considered at the planning stage, the steps involved in carrying out evaluations and the importance of involving people in the evaluation process throughout.
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A Bibliographical Survey of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations
In many countries in Africa and Asia, rotating savings and credit associations underpin much of the economy. This survey covers the wide range of literature on these associations. Published with Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women.
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Building with Bamboo
This revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of research programmes testing bamboo. The author shows how bamboo can be harvested, seasoned and jointed to form walls, doors and windows, roofs, floors, ceilings, roof trusses and bridges, and how to weav...
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Caribbean Development Bank
The Caribbean Development Bank has, over the last twenty-five years, focused its efforts on development of the Commonwealth Caribbean countries, and in particular, the seven small island states that form the Organization of East Caribbean States. It is small in comparison with the two development ba...
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Conflict and Development
This paper was prepared as a background document for a workshop on Development in Conflict, held in Birmingham, UK, convened by ACORD, Birmingham University’s School of Public Policy, and Responding to Conflict. The growing incidence of armed conflicts in Africa and Eastern Europe, and their devasta...
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Cultural Dimension of Development
D Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer, David W. Brokensha
Presents overwhelming evidence, from a range of disciplines, that local people do know a great deal about their environment. This knowledge must be taken into account in the planning and implementation of development to be both acceptable and effective. Forty-six contributions from anthropologists,...
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Cultural Dimension of Development
D Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer, David W. Brokensha
Examines the management and use of common-property forests, groves and trees on southern Mount Kenya, demonstrating the long-standing relationships between Kenyans and their forest resources - and the connections between anthropology and forestry. This book is published in the IT Studies in Indigeno...
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Developing Building for Safety Programmes
Yasemin Aysan, Andrew Clayton, Alistair Cory, Ian Davis
Developing Building for Safety Programmes summarizes the basic principles to be considered in the planning and implementation of community-based building improvement programmes for small dwellings in disaster-prone areas. Including case studies illustrating suggestions made. These guidelines for saf...
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Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response
Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response brings together, for the first time, information on the activity of British individuals and organizations working in disaster mitigation, preparedness and response. Over 170 returned questionnaires, interviews, reviews and research form the basis of thi...
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Disease Prevention Through Vector Control
Over the years, Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries The number of refugees and displaced persons has increa...