Gender, Development and Citizenship

Caroline Sweetman

Focusing on citizenship means thinking about the relationships between individuals and the stated in which they live. What difference does having citizenship rights mean for people’s lives? Are structures of governance efficient and responsive to people’s needs? This book examines ways in which citi...

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...

Politics Transformed

Sue Branford, Bernardo Kucinski, Hilary Wainwright

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) became Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leaders since Salvador Allende on October 27, 2002. He achieved nearly 62 per cent of the vote, to become the first left-wing politician to win his country's presidency. But behind this victory for Lula an...

Trapped

Binka Le Breton

Globally, the illegal trade in humans is surpassed only by that in drugs and arms. This work explores some of the life stories behind this scandal and tragedy by looking at one of the regions where debt bondage is still common - the Brazilian Amazon. The author, a British journalist turned farmer in...

Voices for Change

Ronnie Vernooy

Voices for Change: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation in China

Willingness-to-pay Surveys - A Streamlined Approach: Guidance notes for small town water services

Alison Wedgewood

These guidance notes describe good practice for conducting robust 'willingness-to-pay' (WTP) surveys in small towns, using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), as part of a demand-responsive approach to the supply of services. The urban water sector in low- and middle-income countries requires goo...