SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Performance Management
Performance Management equips staff at financial institutions across emerging economies with frameworks and tools to manage people effectively.To sustain the business of financial institutions, leaders and managers must focus on ‘performance’. This means helping staff to maintain quality, efficiency...
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Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives
Aid organizations have their origins in a desire to help the world’s poorest and most marginalized people – but are they reaching these people? Factors are coming together that put pressure on NGOs working in development: the economic crisis, the growing conditionality of aid, and increased competit...
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As Though People Mattered
Must Britain sink from riches to rags in two generations? Must we pursue indiscriminate growth through unlimited consumption? The essential purpose of economic development and discriminating growth should be to enable all people to live fulfilled lives, and that objective can only be achieved throug...
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Understanding Organizational Sustainability through African Proverbs
African cultural heritage, passed on from generation to generation has been the source of guidance for African communities in times of peace, uncertainty, birth, life and death. In this book the power of traditional wisdom contained in African proverbs is directed at organizational development and c...
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Mushroom Production for Sustainable Livelihoods
This manual is a culmination of Practical Action Southern Africa's work in Chakohwa. The project worked with the Chakohwa Community-Based Organisation (CCBO) in Chimanimani District of Manicaland province. The aim of the project was to provide income earning opportunities for HIV and aids orphans an...
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Poor People's Energy Outlook 2013
In many countries poor people’s energy access is yet to be given sufficient priority and fails to be acknowledged as a key enabler in improving health, education, and other community services. As a contribution to creating a new energy narrative, the Poor people’s energy outlook (PPEO) highlights wh...
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Vers la Résilience
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Vers Résilience: Un guide pour la réduction des risques de catastrophes et adaptation au changement climatique est une ressource d'introduction pour le développement et les acteurs humanitaires travaillant avec les populations à risque de catastrophes et autres impacts du changement climatique. Il e...
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Hacia la Resiliencia
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical...
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Savings Groups at the Frontier
Savings Groups reach those rarely served by mainstream financial institutions.Maximum transparency, a profitable structure for saving, access to small loans and an annual lump sum of capital are the hallmarks of the savings group methodology. The outcome: empowered groups, made up mostly of women, w...
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Toward Resilience
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Toward Resilience is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to...