PPP and the Poor: Interim Findings - Part B (case studies)

Andrew Cotton

M Sohail

The purpose of the project Public Private Partnerships and the Poor in Water and Sanitation is to determine workable processes whereby the needs of the poor are promoted in strategies which encourage public-private partnerships (PPP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. One of t...

Responsabilité de Protéger

CIISE

Responsabilité de Protéger: Rapport de la Commission internationale de lintervention et de la souveraineté des états

Responsibility to Protect

ICISS

Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Responsibility to Protect

Thomas Weiss, G Thomas, Don Hubert

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Power and Partnership?

Rick James

Power and Partnership has emerged from the 1999 conference, 'NGOs in the Global Future', at the University of Birmingham. A panel set up to focus on NGO capacity-building. Invited individuals presented papers describing their actual experiences of NGO capacity-building to better understand how capac...

Public Services Through Private Enterprise

Malcolm Harper

Cigarettes and soft drinks are available in just about every village in the developing world - clean water, primary education and health services are not. The main reason for this paradoxical and tragic situation is the failure to deliver public services, especially in the face of growing population...

Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities

Monica Trujillo

This working paper maps the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America are exposed and relates these to the complex social, economic, political and cultural factors that make some social sectors more critically vulnerable than others in emergencies. It als...

Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development

Sylvia Chant

Based on research commissioned by the World Bank, this books primary focus is on incorporating men in gender and development interventions at the grass roots level. It draws attention to some of the key problems that have arisen from male exclusion; as well as to the potential benefits of - and obst...

Mastering the Machine Revisited

Ian Smillie

The 50-year struggle to harness technology in the fight against global poverty- and why is it taking so long? Mastering the Machine Revisited is about the connection between poverty, aid and technology. It is about the search driven today by greater extreme poverty than has ever been known, and by...

Micro-hydro Pelton Turbine Manual

Jeremy Thake

Micro-hydro is a useful way of providing power to houses, workshops or villages that need an independent supply. For many remote areas beyond the reach of a national grid, micro-hydro is the only economic option. Where flow is limited, but high heads are available, the Pelton wheel is one of the mos...