Producer Organisations

Chris Penrose-Buckley

Small-scale producers face huge challenges in todays world. They have to adopt a market-oriented approach if they want to compete in and benefit from local and global markets. This book opens with an explanation of why collective action in the form of producer organisations is a key strategy for i...

Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan

Jacky Sutton, Adam Pain

The book raises critical questions relating to both humanitarian intervention and development agendas in crisis states. It supports a growing literature that interrogates past and present interventions, but does so by putting food security at the heart of both short- and long-term responses to crisi...

Sharing Power for Development

Lilith Schaerer, Karin Fueg

Decentralisation and good local governance are often identified as necessary precursors to effective pro-poor development work. In this publication, the authors examine case studies from the work of Swiss development organisation Helvetas and its local partners in the Philippines, Cameroon, Mali, Vi...

Springs of Participation

Karen Brock, Jethro Pettit

Learning from others in the form of fusion and adaptation of existing tools and approaches is very much part of evolving new participatory methods, and is a key component of the process of creating fresh approaches to new challenges. Springs of Participation brings together the experiences and refle...

Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS

Vivien Margaret Walden

This manual will help field staff to mainstream HIV andAIDS in humanitarian emergencies. It assumes someknowledge of humanitarian programming and is intended to build staff skills in addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV infection and the consequences of HIV and AIDS, particularly...

Revisión de Capacitación en Género

Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

Formation sur le genre dans les années 1990 et proliféré a gagné du terrain en mettant l'accent sur l'intégration du genre, une stratégie adoptée lors de la quatrième Conférence mondiale des femmes 1995 à Beijing. À l'heure actuelle formation sur le genre est de plus en plus remis en question comme...

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies (Arabic)

What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessm...

Motors as Generators for Micro-hydro Power

Nigel Smith

This is a guide to the use of induction motors for electricity generation in remote locations. It is written as a practical handbook for engineers and technicians involved in designing and installing small water-power schemes for isolated houses and communities. This revised edition brings in new co...

Negotiating the Seed Treaty

Stuart Coupe, Roger Lewins

The International Seed Treaty came into force in 2004 was the culmination of over 20 years of negotiation. The need for a treaty arose out of a growing awareness that crucial plant genetic resources are being irretrievably lost. This book describes the complex process by which a wide range of partie...

A New Weave of Power, People and Politics

Lisa VeneKlasen, Valerie Miller

This field manual provides a well-tested approach for promoting citizen participation. It breaks down the traditional boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and reconnects them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. A New We...