
Building Bridges with the Grassroots
Scaling Up Through Knowledge Sharing
Published: 2005
Pages: 184
eBook: 9781780444611
Paperback: 9781853396168
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
About the authors and contributors
1 Building bridges; changing lives
1.1. Cities without slums
1.2. Urban poverty – information poverty?
2 Women building disaster resilient communities
3 Women’s voices through video
4 Enabling women’s construction enterprises
5 Strengthening community savings and credit
6 Communities reducing kitchen smoke
7 Mothers campaigning for better lives
8 Sharing grassroots women’s knowledge
9 Building skills, enterprizes and roofs
10 Communities organizing infrastructure improvement
11 Facing slums issues through federations
12 Scaled-up urban waste responses
13 Learning lessons and informing practice
14 Redefining policies, regulations and processes
Notes
Otto Ruskulis
Otto Ruskulis is a consultant researcher.
Theo Schilderman Theo Schilderman is a Senior Researcher at the Building and Social Housing Foundation, UK. He is an architect with over 40 years’ experience of low-cost housing and reconstruction in developing countries.