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(Book) The MSP Guide
In recent years, multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have become popular for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development. This guide provides a practical framework for the design and facilitation of these collaborative processes that work across the boundaries of business, governmen...
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(Book) Peasants and the Art of Farming
Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within peasant farms. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg argues that peasant agriculture can play an...
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(Book) Sustainable Sanitation for All
Petra Bongartz, Naomi Vernon, John Fox
Great strides have been made in improving sanitation in many developing countries. Yet, 2.4 billion people worldwide still lack access to adequate sanitation facilities and the poorest and most vulnerable members of society are often not reached and their specific needs are not met. Moreover, sustai...
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(Book) Making Market Systems Work for the Poor
‘The M4P approach recognizes that the lives of the poor are inextricably linked to the functioning of the systems around them. Too often, poorly functioning market systems -- uncompetitive and unresponsive to producer, worker and consumer needs -- have a disproportionately negative impact upon the p...
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(Book) Le Guide des PMP
Ces dernières années, les partenariats multipartites (PMP) sont devenus populaires pour s’attaquer aux défis complexes que pose le développement durable. Ce guide offre un cadre pratique pour la conception et la facilitation de ces processus collaboratifs qui décloisonnent le monde des affaires, des...
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(Book) Quality assurance checklist for house construction in disaster prone areas
This document is intended mostly to help building contractors and site supervisors to maintain reliable standards in order to ensure that the final product would be of durable quality. It is hoped that users of this information will contribute to the construction of houses that will successfully wit...
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(Book) Tratamento de lodo fecal e esgoto séptico
Muitos países de média e baixa renda estão passando por um processo de urbanização rápida, que gera a necessidade de melhores serviços, incluindo o de saneamento. Enquanto algumas áreas no espaço urbano têm serviços de saneamento, a maioria das pessoas, especialmente a população de baixa renda, cont...
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(Journal Article) Strengthening behaviour change communication in western Nepal: how can we do better?
01.10.2015
The Government of Nepal aims to achieve full water and sanitation coverage by 2017. The bilateral Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Western Nepal (RWSSP-WN) works with local governments in 14 districts, aiming to declare them open defecation free. This behaviour change communications evaluation explored how to improve RWSSP-WN’s present practices to reach the diverse target population in the Terai districts, where more than 1 million people still defecate in the open. The study reviewed RWSSP-WN’s present behaviour change triggering tools and related communications strategies. Our findings suggest that availability of subsidies seems to change how people think about sanitation and tends to eliminate willingness to pay for a latrine. We recommended strong advocacy for a no-subsidy policy, and more attention paid to alternative financing options with targeted support to the poorest of the poor. The present behaviour change triggering tools do work as intended, but there is a need to develop pre-triggering and post-triggering strategies to increase the overall impact. The pre-triggering strategy would ensure that potential barriers to change are identified and addressed before the actual triggering event, and that the key stakeholders are prepared for the actual triggering event. The post-triggering strategy is needed to continue motivating households to change via messages that tap into the drivers of change, addressing also the barriers which may keep each household from changing behaviour. This paper provides a number of recommendations applicable for those working with local governments and communities to increase the scope and scale of behaviour change triggering. -
(Book) Promoting Local Innovation in Sudan
The aims of this publication are to focus on the collection and classification of Sudanese local innovations using a "bottom-up" approach, to take into account the historical depth and the potential use that may highlight the continuity and changes in local innovations as indicators of society trans...
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(Book) Pineapple Jam
A guide to making pineapple jam.
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(Book) Panorama de la pobreza energética 2019
El PPEO 2019 es la culminación de cinco años de investigación, explorando qué se necesita para hacer realidad el tipo de servicios energéticos que permiten a las personas pobres en energía prosperar. El informe recopila y actualiza los mensajes y recomendaciones clave sobre la planificación (PPEO 20...
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(Book) 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...
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(Book) Le Manuel Sphère
Le manuel Sphère présente une approche fondée sur des principes de qualité et de redevabilité dans les interventions humanitaires. Il s’agit d’une traduction pratique de la conviction fondamentale de Sphère selon laquelle toutes les personnes touchées par une catastrophe ou un conflit ont le droit d...
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(Book) Evaluation of the Hoffman Kiln Technology
Evaluation of Hoffmann kiln technology for a low cost solid waste incinerator.
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(Book) 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...
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(Book) What Works for Africa's Poorest
David Lawson, David Hulme, Lawrence K. Ado-Kofie
Although great strides have been made, Africa still lags behind other parts of the world in the reduction of poverty. We now know that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction programmes, and this is especially true in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Microfinance programmes, fo...
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(Book) From Risk to Resilience
In 2011 Practical Action published From Vulnerability to Resilience: A Framework for Analysis and Action to Build Community Resilience. This was one of the first attempts by a development NGO to operationalize resilience and it provided project workers with a framework to apply the resilience concep...
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(Journal Article) The use of fintech in microfinance: the fight against poverty globally and in Egypt
01.06.2022
Microfinance has long been seen as a remedy for global poverty, although it has had mixed success, as the literature demonstrates. While poverty remains, with the introduction of digital technology and the relaxation, in many areas, of the regulations controlling banking following the financial crisis of 2008, innovations in the financial services sector, known as fintech, could have a significant impact. This article examines the research literature on the topic and provides a case study from Egypt before making recommendations on policy change, and how fintech and microfinance might develop if they are to have an impact on poverty both globally and within Egypt. -
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01.01.2022
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01.03.2022