SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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The Oxfam Poverty Report
The UN Charter of 1945 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out a moral framework for a system of rights and obligations upon which the new world order was to be built. Yet, over 50 years on, the basic rights enshrined in the Charter are being violated all over the world. Only the privi...
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Power, Process and Participation
Rachel Slocum, Lori Wichhart, Diana Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter
This book focuses on participatory capacity-building in ways that address the practical needs and strategic interests of the disadvantaged and disempowered - it examines how differences in class, ethnicity, race, caste, religion, age and gender lead to the 'politics of exclusion'. It offers innovati...
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Power and Participatory Development
This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and examines what shifts in power within communities and institutions are needed for participatory ideas to be effective.
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Rights Now!
One thousand million people in the world live in poverty. They are denied basic rights such as access to clean water, a home or enough to eat. This work explains why so many people are poor and powerless. It shows what some of them are doing about it, how ordinary people in Britain can support them...
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Rural Building Course Volume 1
Contains information on tools, maintenance of tools, rural building materials, rural building products, tables of figures and a glossary.
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Rural Building Course Volume 3
From foundations, walls, doors and windows, to roofs, plaster and render, locks and painting.
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Rural Building Course Volume 4
A training book for drawing techniques related to the subjects covered in the other volumes of the Rural Building Course, and general drawing training.
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The Survival of the Fitter
This book traces the development of Ghana's informal engineering sector through stories of the progress of the actual people involved. The first generation of grassroots engineers are wayside vehicle mechanics, or 'fitters', engaged in repairing machinery. The author argues that the evolution of a f...
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Adult Literacy
This is a book for development workers who have no formal training in adult education who have to respond - as planners, trainers or teachers - to requests for literacy skills. It sets out to deepen their understanding of literacy and its importance in the process of development and change. Using ex...
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Asian Development Bank
Regional development banks have recently come under growing criticism from grassroots organizations, environmental groups and others. Asia and the Pacific is an extremely diverse region, containing both very small and very large nation states - as well as extremes of rich and poor. This volume descr...