Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives

Tina Wallace, Fenella Porter

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...

As Though People Mattered

John Davis, Alan Bollard

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...

Performance Management

Prinny Anderson

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...

Understanding Organizational Sustainability through African Proverbs

Chiku Malunga

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...

Who Counts?

Jeremy Holland, Robert Chambers

Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes. St...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Achieving Water Security

Roger Calow, Eva Ludi, Josephine Tucker

Achieving water security remains an elusive goal yet the benefits of investing in water, sanitation and hygiene to achieve basic water security and alleviate poverty are clear. Households benefit through a range of livelihood impacts; economies benefit from greater economic activity and over the lon...