SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Operation and Maintenance of Urban Services: A synthesis note
This synthesis note introduces other resource material availiable on the operation and maintenance (O&M) of urban services. Designed for policy-makers who need to optimize investments in services for the urban poor and professional staff employed in public utilities in developing countries, it also...
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Organizational Assessment
Charles Lusthaus, George Plinio, Gary Anderson, Marie Helene Carden
Organizational Assessment: A framework for improving performance
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Designing Water Supply and Sanitation Projects to Meet Demand in Rural and Peri-Urban Communities: Book 1. Concept, principles and practice
These guidelines are the result of two years collaborative research undertaken by WEDC with partners in Africa and South Asia. They demonstrate how water supply and sanitation projects in rural and peri-urban areas can be designed to meet user demand. The aim is to improve the use and sustainability...
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Designing Water Supply and Sanitation Projects to Meet Demand in Rural and Peri-Urban Communities: Book 2. Additional notes for policy makers and planners
These guidelines are the result of two years collaborative research undertaken by WEDC with partners in Africa and South Asia. They demonstrate how water supply and sanitation projects in rural and peri-urban areas can be designed to meet user demand. The aim is to improve the use and sustainability...
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Designing Water Supply and Sanitation Projects to Meet Demand in Rural and Peri-Urban Communities: Book 3. Ensuring the participation of the poor
These guidelines are the result of two years collaborative research undertaken by WEDC with partners in Africa and South Asia. They demonstrate how water supply and sanitation projects in rural and peri-urban areas can be designed to meet user demand. The aim is to improve the use and sustainability...
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Emergency Sanitation: Assessment and programme design
This book is designed to assist those involved in planning and implementing emergency sanitation programmes. The main focus of the book is a systematic and structured approach to assessment and programme design. It provides a balance between the hardware (technical) and software (socio-cultural, ins...
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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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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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Small Business Services in Asian Countries
Small Business Services in Asian Countries brings together presentations made at the meeting organized by the Donor Agency Committee for Small Enterprise Development held in Hanoi, Vietnam in April 2000. The book opens with a comprehensive introduction.