Gender, Small-scale Industry and Development Policy
Links the gender perspective on small-scale industry which explicitly concentrates on social groups, with economic questions of higher employment and wider distribution of production.
Published: 1992
Pages: 224
eBook: 9781780442280
Paperback: 9781853391569
List of Illustrations vii | |||
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Preface ix | |||
Introduction xi | |||
PARTI Theory | |||
1 Why we Build 3 | |||
2 Choice of Building Design 12 | |||
Traditional Building: Vernacular Architecture 12 | |||
Change 33 | |||
The Role of Government in Shelter Provision 54 | |||
PART II Practice | |||
3 Guidelines for Development Workers and Agencies 70 | |||
4 Experience in the Field 77 | |||
Low-Income Building in Kenya 77 | |||
Low-Income Building in the Himalayas (a) Bhutan 93 | |||
(b) Nepal 95 | |||
Low-Income Building in West Africa (a) The Gambia 99 | |||
(b) Ghana 101 | |||
Low-Income Building in Southern Africa (a) Zambia 103 | |||
(b) Zimbabwe 106 | |||
Low-Income Building in Caribbean and Belize (a) St. Vincent 108 | |||
(b) Belize 109 | |||
Low-Income Building in the Pacific (a) Fiji 111 | |||
(b) Vanuatu 113 | |||
5 A Checklist for Community-Based Builders 116 | |||
Appendix: Designing, Building and Testing Prototypes 121 | |||
Postscript: Lessons for us All? 124 | |||
Bibliography 126 |
I. Baud
Baud is on the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.
G A de Bruijne
de Bruijne is Professor Emeritus & Guest Professor in Human Geography of Developing Countries, University of Amsterdam.
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