Search results for:

• 

  (Book) Alternatives to Portland Cement

  Cement is an important binding agent in concretes, mortars and renders, and is used for the production of walling blocks and roofing tiles.

• 

  (Book) Drip Irrigation ?System

  A drip irrigation system delivers water directly to the root zone of a plant, where it seeps slowly into the soil one drop at a time. This document describes gravity operated drip irrigation system suitable for poor communities and households.

• 

  (Book) Operation and Maintenance of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

  The training module developed for sanitation and hygiene education

• 

  (Book) Passion Fruit Cultivation

  Passion fruit is a rustic, adaptable crop used in foodstuffs and medicine at both small and industrial scales.

• 

  (Book) Plantation, production and use of biofuels at the community level

  Plantation, production and use of bio fuels at the community level is a compilation of the results and processes undertaken in key sections of the project; harnessing bio fuel; plantation, oil expelling, processing and application.

• 

  (Book) Quality assurance checklist (3)

  This document is intended to provide basic guidelines to occupants of houses that have been constructed in new resettlements in Sri Lanka. However, the information can also be used in maintaining any domestic building in other tropical regions as well.

• 

  (Book) Sandbar cropping

  The document describes pumpkin production in sandbar with the support of SHIREE project namely “Pathways From Poverty Project” in four erosion prone districts of North-west Bangladesh.

• 

  (Book) School Buildings in Developing Countries

  Building schools is a significant area of construction activity in many developing countries. This document explains some issues relating to planning and construction at low cost.

• 

  (Book) Seed Fairs

  Seed Fairs are specialised markets in villages or communities where seeds are traded. Selling seeds this way ensures they are readily available to local farmers, of a relevant variety and enables knowledge sharing between farmers.

• 

  (Book) Successful Distribution Models for Clean Cookstoves

  Drawing on ten case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an expert workshop and a literature review this study outlines key lessons for the establishment of last mile distribution chains for clean cookstoves.

• 

  (Book) Ten Rules for Energy-Efficient, Cost-Effective Brick Firing

  Rules for brickmakers and field-workers to increase the efficiency of the brick-firing process.

• 

  (Book) Woodworking

  Running a successful woodworking enterprise is dependent on many factors, some of which are covered here.

• (Journal Article) Microfinance institutions in the USA: the glocalization of microcredit policies in relation to gender

  01.12.2024
  The aim of this research was to inquire if foreign microfinance institutions (MFIs), interested in entering the US microfinance market because of its location advantages, should glocalize their microcredit policies. Research found that women in the USA are a no better risk for microcredit than men, and there are no differences in the repayment of microloans between men and women. The payment behaviour of women and men related to certain specific variables was also investigated. A survey sent to 203 MFIs was used, to which 17.73 per cent responded. Findings show that, in the USA, there are no strong incentives, motivations or external pressures which influence women to pay microcredits better than men. Therefore, international MFIs entering the USA should glocalize their microcredit policies in relation to women as well as their product design and policies for granting microloans.

• (Journal Article) Use of bounded rationality theory to understand participation of women in Islamic microfinance

  01.12.2024
  The prime objective of this paper is to understand the participation behaviour of rural poor women in Islamic microfinance pursued with an aim to build up successful micro-entrepreneurship. In so doing, the study employs a new theory of boundedly rational planned behaviour (TBRPB) to formulate a research framework. Data (n = 390) were collected from the women borrowers of an Islamic microfinance institute, the Rural Development Scheme (RDS) in Bangladesh, following a simple random sampling procedure. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was utilized to analyse the data through AMOS software. The findings suggest that the attitudes and normative perceptions of the rural women are highly significant in influencing their subjective rational plan towards participation in the institute, which has been effectively helping build up successful micro-entrepreneurship.

• (Journal Article) Upscaling with a focus on microfinance institutions' largest market: women entrepreneurs

  01.12.2024
  As microenterprises grow, so do their financial and non-financial needs. Entrepreneurs may eventually need larger loans than microfinance institutions (MFIs) typically offer. To respond to the demands of clients that are transitioning into the small business segment, many MFIs, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, have undergone upgrading and upscaling in order to provide a wider range of financial products and services. However, even though MFIs have a significant number of female clients in their portfolios, their upgrading and upscaling processes rarely integrate a gender focus and thus lack a value proposition tailored to that growing client base. Hence, this article seeks to open the discussion on how MFIs can implement successful upgrading and upscaling processes by recognizing the key opportunities presented by their largest market: women entrepreneurs.

• 

  (Book) How to Build a Solar Oven out of Scraped Materials

  Steen Carlsen

  This is a brief guide-line on how to build a solar oven - based on experiences with building a homemade solar ovens, at the lowest possible cost, with simple tools and using scraped materials. It is aimed to reduce the need for fire wood and other fuels in refugee camps.

• 

  (Book) Thermal Tests of the 'Solar Oven revision 2'

  Steen Carlsen

  This report describes the thermal test of the solar oven revision 2 - built in August 2024. The aim is – based on the thermal measurements at the oven – to find out – for a given irradiation - how much the solar oven can rise its temperature T above the temperature of the ambient TAmb. - and how fas...

• 

  (Book) Considerations, design calculations, construction, test and evaluation of a cavity walled solar oven Part 2: Evaluation of insulation materials

  Steen Carlsen

  This report is Part 2 of- (and an addendum to-) the Part 1 of: “Considerations, design calculations, construction, test and evaluation of a cavity walled solar oven”. Both Part 1 and Part 2 of the report are based on a cavity walled solar oven consisting of two boxes – one within the other – with a...

• 

  (Book) Young and Female

  Sharada Srinivasan, Lu Pan, Aprilia Ambarwati

  Women’s roles in sustaining and the revival of farming are indispensable. Based on research in Canada, China, India and Indonesia, the book offers a global perspective on young women’s pathways into farming. It responds directly to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farmin...

• 

  (Book) Walk-In Cold Rooms: A Practitioner’s Technical Guide

  Efficiency for Access

  There are extreme challenges for cold rooms when operating in locations remote from reliable power, away from supply chains, hard to reach for technical support and with a hot climate.This guide consolidates the current state of the art on designing and operating walk-in cold rooms that are well sui...