SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS
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...
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Capacity Building for NGOs
Capacity Building for NGOs is for anyone interested in capacity building with NGOs and other civil society organisations. It provides an overview of trends and current thinking about NGO capacity building, the challenges and constraints. It also addresses the difficult issue of why, despite all our...
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Drying of Foods
The drying of food results in longer preservation and ease of transport (lighter). This technical brief describes some of the requirements for food drying to retain maximum nutrients and aesthetics, and summarizes information on the various drying equipment.
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Solar Photovoltaic Energy
This Technical Brief looks at the background of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy (in which sunlight is directly converted into electricity), the design of PV cell, modules and arrays, and configuration of PV systems.
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Mushroom Growing
Developing commercial cultivation of mushrooms is growing throughout Africa. This brief focuses on this practice in Zimbabwe.
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Solar Drying
Drying using sunshine - a brief description of the basic principles behind it and how to determine the rate of drying.
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Ginger Processing
Ginger is valued for the dried ginger spice and preserved, crystallised ginger.
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Fruit Preserves - Jams, Jellies and Marmalades
An introduction to small-scale jams, jellies and marmalades making, Known collectively as preserves.
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Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation
Esther Mebrahtu, Brian Pratt, Linda Lonnqvist
Do any of these monitoring and evaluation issues sound familiar? It feels like your monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has to demonstrate that your project is perfect. Your funder demands M&E data that's too cumbersome to collect. M&E feels more like an impediment than a resource to your work. Your M&E...
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Making Stabilised Soil Blocks
Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.