Technology and the Future of Work

Jonathan Casey

Through a year-long project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, Practical Action and WIEGO have explored the disruptive impact of technologies on informal workers, examining the technologies themselves and the influence of cities, work, and systems. This policy briefing presents evidence of the...

Agrarian Change, Migration and Development

Henry Veltmeyer, Raúl Delgado Wise

The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migraton. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the capitalist mode of production. The dynamics of these processes are both internat...

Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements

Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.

Transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) are organizations, networks, coalitions and solidarity linkages of farmers, peasants, pastoralists and their allies that cross national boundaries and seek to influence national and global policies. Today’s TAMs have contributed to reframing a wide range of de...

Stepping Stones with Children

Gill Gordon

Acquiring HIV may no longer be a death sentence, but its effects are still profound. Many people living with HIV face rejection and are unsure about their futures, and these anxieties may be felt all the more keenly by children and young people. Stepping Stones with Children equips organizations...

Kivuko cha Watoto

Gill Gordon

Kupata VVU inaweza isiwe hukumu ya kifo, lakini madhara yake bado ni makubwa. Watu wengi wanaoishi na VVU wanakabiliwa na ukanaji na kutokuwa na hakika kuhusu mustakabali wao, na wasiwasi huu unaweza kuonekana kwa undani zaidi kwa watoto na vijana. Kivuko na Watoto kinawapa mashirika na watu bina...

Rosa of the Wild Grass

Fiona M. Macintosh

Rosa of the Wild Grass, the Story of a Nicaraguan Family is a true story which spans the last fifty years of the life of this small Central American republic. This fascinating and deeply moving personal and family chronicle brings alive the tumult of events in a way no textbook of contemporary polit...

Technology Justice

Amber Miekle

Half of the world is without access to basic technologies that deliver clean water and sanitation, a modern energy supply, generic medicines, and mechanized agriculture — and the other half takes these technologies for granted. This publication presents the concept of Technology Justice and the case...

Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy

Alison Mathie, John Gaventa

This collection of eleven cases from Canada and the United States gives expression to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. Grappling with complex problems in their local communities, organized citizens are forging innovation, prying open cracks in the prevai...

Delivering decentralisation

This is an introductory leaflet to the project Delivering decentralization: slum dwellers' access to decision making for pro poor infrastructure services.

Quality assurance checklist for house construction in disaster prone areas

This document is intended mostly to help building contractors and site supervisors to maintain reliable standards in order to ensure that the final product would be of durable quality. It is hoped that users of this information will contribute to the construction of houses that will successfully wit...