Monitoring checklists: Water points and latrines

These check-lists have been developed to monitor water and sanitation infrastructure development in rural communities. They can be used as a training guide for community management committees and water point supervisors.

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Technologies in Bangladesh

Renewable energy practices in Bangladesh.

Delivery Model of Wood Gasifier Stoves in Sri Lanka

Instead of burning the fuel-wood with a complete combustion to generate heat directly, a wood gasifier stove, which is also called a Forced Draft Wood Gasifier Stove, follows a two-step process. This two stage process leads to more complete combustion, releasing less smoke and less emission, particu...

Grass Roots Injury Prevention

Diana Samarakkody, Elizabeth Davis, Rod McClure

Books about injury prevention tend to explain only the principles and leave it to the practitioner to apply them in the course of their everyday interactions. Thus there is a large gap, between “what works in principle” and “how to make it work in practice”. The purpose of this book is to translate...

Feminists in Development Organizations

Rosalind Eyben, Laura Turquet

Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international NGOs.The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ positioned on the...

Delivering Energy for Development

Raffaella Bellanca, Ewan Bloomfield, Kavita Rai

Access to modern energy services remains low or non-existent for approximately 2.8 billion of the world’s population. Energy practitioners are facing the challenge of delivering access to modern energy services where poverty and lack of infrastructure makes it most difficult. Rising awareness about...

The Complete Manual of Small-scale Food Processing

Peter Fellows

Small-scale food processing is important worldwide. For individual processors, it is highly accessible as a start-up business, especially for women; farmers and fishermen can readily diversify into processing to increase their incomes; and high added-value enables processors to earn an income from r...

Design, fabrication and testing of a millet thresher

A thresher was developed for threshing, separating, and cleaning millet seeds. The major components of the machine include threshing, separation and cleaning units.

Gasifier Stoves

Advanced biomass stoves covers improvements developed over recent years for household cooking in developing countries. They are often referred to as gasifier stoves although not all of these stoves strictly gasify the fuel.

Bio-Latrines

This brief looks at the option of using bio-latrines, an on-site dry toilet technology which generates fertilising materials and fuel from the human excreta.