SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Improvement of Water Utility Management and Reduction of Unaccounted-for-Water
The African Water Utility Partnership for Capacity Building projects is part of the SIDA-funded Water Utility Partnership (WUP) Action Programme. WUP has pioneered a successful partnership between Severn Trent Water International , WEDC and six African water utilities to work together on the 'Improv...
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L'Alimentation en Eau et les Installations Sanitaires: pour les personnes handicapees
Plus de 500 millions de personnes dans le monde sont handicapées et la majorité d’entre elles vivent dans la pauvreté au sein de communautés à faible revenu. Le manque d’accès à des installations sanitaires et à l’eau potable constitue un facteur essentiel de la pauvreté de ces personnes. Il sera di...
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Participartory Planning for Integrated Rural Water supply and Sanitation Programmes: Guidelines and manual (3rd Edition)
The Guidelines and supporting Manual on CD are to help planners and managers in national governments to develop their own rural water supply and sanitation programmes. They can also be used by consultants, and NGOs could adapt them for their programmes.
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 1 - Tanzania: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Dar es Salaam
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 2 - Kenya: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Nairobi
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 3 - Sudan: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Khartoum
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 4 - Ghana: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Accra
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Comanagement of Natural Resources
Comanagement of Natural Resources: Local Learning for Poverty Reduction
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Beyond Access
Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter
In a world in which poverty, social prejudice and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls' access to school. This book presents a vision of a t...
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Bridging Research and Policy in Development
This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy. International policy making is extremely complex and little studied. This book reviews what we do already know and provides a concept...