Action Against Small Arms

Jim Coe, Henry Smith

The uncontrolled spread and misuse of small arms and light weapons constitute a crisis of global proportions. They destroy both lives and livelihoods; they are a threat to peace and development, to democracy and human rights. Since the mid-1990s, civil-society groups and some progressive governments...

Smoke - the Killer in the Kitchen

Hugh Warwick, Alison Doig

Over two billion people in developing countries use only traditional biomass wood, dung and crop waste for their basic energy needs. The pollution from the burning of these fuels for cooking and heating is linked to the deaths of over 1.6 million people each year (more than three people a minute). I...

Mugged

Charis Gresser, Sophia Tickell

There is a crisis destroying the livelihoods of 25 million coffee producers around the world. The price of coffee has fallen by almost 50 per cent in the past three years to a 30-year low. Farmers sell at a heavy loss while branded coffee sells at a hefty profit. The coffee crisis has become a devel...

Making an Impact in HIV and Aids

Jocelyn de Jong

Recogonizing that scaling up NGO programmes involves more than just additional resources, Making an Impact in HIV and AIDS analyses when expansion is appropriate, how to make it effective, how to measure the costs, and what the implications for organizations may be. The book is aimed both at HIV/...

Loin des caméras

Amelia Bookstein

Depuis les atrocités du 11 Septembre 2001, les dirigeants des grandes puissances internationales se sont concentrées sur confronter ce qu'ils perçoivent comme la plus grande menace à la sécurité mondiale: la combinaison des armes de destruction massive et le terrorisme international. Lors du sommet...

We Are Millions

Marcela Lopez Levy

Neo-liberalism has claimed another victim: Argentina. Since the 1970s, a brutal transference of resources from the poor to the rich has taken place here. The wealthy have exploited the tools of neo-liberalism to make fast profits for themselves and international interests without a thought for the c...

How to Set up and Manage a Resource Centre

This document focuses on resource centres for health workers. Information is especially important for training health workers helping them to understand the context of their work, follow new approaches, undertake new responsibilities, improve their practice and remind them of basic concepts.

Evaporative Cooling

Keeping produce fresh with refrigeration methods that require no external power.

Inside Colombia

Grace Livingstone

This work is an introduction to who's who and what is really happening in Colombia. In one volume, it brings together the best material published on the war, the economy, social impact and prospects of peace in Colombia. It sets out, in a clear journalistic style, the human rights and internal refug...

NGO Responses to Urban Poverty

Caroline Sahley, Brian Pratt

If urban development is to move forward in a pro-poor manner, there will have to be far greater investment in NGOs, to enable them to work with and on behalf of the poor. If this is not done, then there is a danger that they will remain, in some cases, simply providers of welfare services or involve...