SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Vehicles for People or People for Vehicles?: Issues in Solid Waste Collection in Low-income Countries
The livelihoods of many thousands of poor people in low-income countries rely on collecting and recycling solid waste. Small waste collection vehicles (SWCVs) such as wheelbarrows and cycle carts play a vital role, enabling individuals to transport more waste, faster, further and with greater ease a...
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Water Quality Surveillance
This guide is designed to help staff who undertake surveillance and monitoring of water supplies in developing countries. It provides simple information on how data may be collected and explains the use of equipment and inspection techniques. It also provides example forms that can be easily photoco...
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Water Supply Surveillance: a reference manual
The result of a DFID/WHO project presenting guidelines on the implementation of water supply surveillance based on field experience in Uganda, Ghana and bangladesh. The guidelines provide a methodology for including poverty and vulnerability into suveillance planning and show how priority groups can...
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Siembra de soluciones Tomo 2
Siembra de soluciones: Tomo 2. Opciones para leyes nacionales de control sobre recursos genéticos e innovaciones biológicas
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Populations et la santé dans les pays en développement Volume 1
Populations et la santé dans les pays en développement: Volume 1. Population, santé et survie dans les sites INDEPTH
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Knowledge, Power and Development Agendas
Development NGOs North and South now exist in a global web of relationships. Not only money and people but ideas, information and knowledge move more often and more quickly than ever before around this vast, diverse community. Southern NGOs have many ideas and a great deal of information and knowled...
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Land Reform and Peasant Livelihoods
This critical analysis of the performance of land-reform programmes on a world-wide basis is written by several prominent scholars who have extensive experience in field research, advisory work and the implementation of reform programmes. They provide empirical evidence from many countries how impro...
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Gender, Development and Health
What are the differences between women’s and men’s experiences of health, sickness and health care? How does our gender identity affect our physical and mental wellbeing? Despite improvements in health indicators in many countries, developing countries are currently facing a health crisis. New disea...