SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Guideline for Building Power Thresher
Step by step pictorial description of how to build a power thresher cost effectively.
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Making Stabilised Soil Blocks
Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.
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Pepper Processing
Pepper processing looks at the main post harvest activities. These activities include sorting, threshing and drying.
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Capacity Building Framework
The design and implementation of successful capacity building programmes involves a range of complex processes and considerations. This practical guide draws on INTRAC’s experience in capacity building consultancy and programme work and on its successful international training in capacity building....
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Clove Processing
Cloves are the unopened flower buds of the evergreen tree and are used to flavour foods and drinks. They are also used to produce essential oil used in dentistry and as a cleaning agent in microscopy. The steps in obtaining and processing it are shown here.
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Promoting Local Innovation in Sudan
The aims of this publication are to focus on the collection and classification of Sudanese local innovations using a "bottom-up" approach, to take into account the historical depth and the potential use that may highlight the continuity and changes in local innovations as indicators of society trans...
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Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption: A Note on Research Methodology for Combating Corruption
This document presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyze corruption in the infrastructure sector. This methodology was piloted in South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Georgia, Ukraine and nepal in 2005-2006. The sustainability of the l...
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Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption: Literature Review
This review describes accountability arrangements to combat corruption in the infrastructure sector. The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, s...
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Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption in the Delivery of Infrastructure Services in Bangladesh
The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, sanitation, drainage, the provision of access roads and paving, transport, solid waste management, street...
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Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption in the Housing and Municipal Sector in Ukraine
The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, sanitation, drainage, the provision of access roads and paving, transport, solid waste management, street...