Self-Supply

Sally Sutton, John Butterworth

While governments and development partners focus on improving community and utility-managed water supplies to ensure access for all, hundreds of millions of people are taking actions to supply their own water. In the WASH sector household investment in construction and improvement of facilities is w...

Value Chain Development and the Poor

Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian, Jon Hellin

Since the early 2000s, value chain development (VCD) has figured prominently on the agendas of donors, governments, and NGOs in pursuit of market-based options to poverty reduction, food security, gender equity, and other goals. Researchers have shown interest in value chains as a theoretical con...

Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children

The 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) is a ‘one-stop shop’ for all the latest resources on child protection. The CPMS aims to strengthen quality and accountability in child protection programming and improve multi-sectoral approaches to children...

Anticipatory Humanitarian Action in Nepal

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.

Taking Shelter

Patrick McAllister, Daniel Rozas

PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2020 How do low-income families, representing some 70% of the world’s population, finance home building and improvements – and how is the financial sector, from microfinance institutions and banks to investors and regulators, changing to serve their needs? The practice of h...

Islam and International Development

Ajaz Ahmed Khan, Affan Cheema

What can we learn from Islamic teachings that will take us closer to addressing today’s most pressing development challenges, including forced migration and refugees, safeguarding and child welfare, gender-based violence, climate change, and peacebuilding and conflict resolution? How can the mec...

Solar Pumping for Water Supply

Alberto Ibáñez Llario, Asenath W. Kiprono

Solar power for pumping groundwater has a vast potential for improving the sustainability of water supply schemes. However experience also shows that a lack of knowledge, capacity and expertise to design and implement such schemes is holding back their adoption. This book bridges this gap to equip e...

Practical Guides for Organizational & Financial Resilience Set

John Cammack

John Cammack is a highly experienced practitioner, consultant and trainer in the international non-profit sector. He has worked, and delivered both face-to-face and online training, in over 60 countries, and has conducted innovative research with a wide range of trainers and practitioners working in...

Standards Minimums pour la Protection de l'Enfance dans l'Action Humanitaire

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children

L’édition 2019 des Standards Minimums pour la Protection de l’Enfance dans l’intervention humanitaire (SMPE) est un ‘guichet unique’ pour toutes les ressources les plus récentes sur la protection de l’enfance. Les SMPE ont pour objectif de renforcer la qualité et la redevabilité des programmes de pr...

Normas Mínimas Para la Protección de la Niñez y Adolescencia en la Acción Humanitaria

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children

La edición de 2019 de las Normas mínimas para la protección de la niñez y adolescencia en la acción humanitaria (NMPNA) es una "ventanilla única" para todos los recursos más recientes sobre protección de la infancia. Las NMPNA tienen como objetivo fortalecer la calidad y la responsabilidad en los pr...