Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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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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Productive Water Points in Dryland Areas
Lack of water is the limiting factor for many household and community-based activities for millions of people living in dryland areas. Rural water supply programmes tend to focus only on improved access to domestic supply and improved sanitation. Less attention has been paid to how communities prefe...
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Best Practice in Solid Waste Management
This guide demonstrates successful waste management in Nepal.
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Information Design and Distance Learning for International Development
This book presents an investigation by research into the ways in which distance learning is affected by the physical design of printed study materials. In particular, it examines the use of engineering drawing systems for illustrated, instructional texts concerned with technical aspects of infrastru...
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Operation, Maintenance and Sustainability of Services for the Urban Poor: Findings, lessons learned and case studies summary and analysis
This book presents the preliminary findings of the case studies completed to date (in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India). The report provides an assessment of the operation and maintenance status within the communities illustrated in the studies and has sought to highlight the success and failure of the...
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PPP and the Poor: Interim findings - Part A (Summary and Lessons Learned)
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...
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PPP and the Poor: Interim Findings - Part B (case studies)
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...
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Sweeping Business: Developing Entrepreneurial Skills for the Collection of Solid Waste
This book presents the findings of a Department for International Development (DFID) funded project (R6540). It has been written for practitioners, municipal staff, non-government organizations and students interested in promoting micro-enterprises for the collection of solid waste. The project has...