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(Book) Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Fossil fuel subsidies are killing both people and the planet. By encouraging excessive consumption of fossil fuels, subsidies exacerbate pollution and climate change, make violent protests more likely, and waste huge sums that could be used far better. Yet for years there has been minimal progress...
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(Book) Standards for Supporting Crop-related Livelihoods in Emergencies
Millions of people around the world who are vulnerable to crises rely heavily on crop production to support their livelihoods. Currently, 40% of the global poor live in economies affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. That number is expected to rise to 67% in the next decade (World Bank 2021...
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(Book) Digital Development
Sundeep Sahay, Arunima Mukherjee, Geoffrey Walsham, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
There is growing global consensus that the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and particularly the Internet, are providing a new framework and huge opportunities for economic, political and social development. This book explores case studies across India, Kenya, Guatemala, Sri Lanka,...
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(Book) Gestion de nos dechets 2021
La gestion des déchets que nous produisons tous constitue un défi grandissant dans le monde entier. Les problèmes de gestion des déchets sont habituellement décrits et mesurés en termes de flux de matières et d’incidences environnementales. Cependant, il s’agit d’un problème humain ayant d’important...
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(Book) The Learning Power of Listening
Irene Guijt, Maria Veronica Gottret, Anna Hanchar, Steff Deprez, Rita Muckenhirn
Social change is messy. Poverty and inequality are experienced in a myriad of ways, each person and household with specific opportunities and needs. Working with their inherent complexity requires seeing what is happening at the margins for small groups, as much as what is center stage for the majo...
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(Book) A New Weave of Power, People and Politics Arabic
Lisa VeneKlasen, Valerie Miller
This field manual provides a well-tested approach for promoting citizen participation. It breaks down the traditional boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and reconnects them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. A New We...
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(Book) Training for Transformation V
Training for Transformation is designed to assist workers in the field who are encouraging the development of self-reliant creative communities. The book has as its basic philosophy the belief that we should all participate in making this world a more just place to live in.
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(Book) Managing Our Waste 2021
Dealing with the waste we all generate is a growing global challenge. Waste management problems are conventionally described and measured in terms of material flows and environmental impacts, yet this is a human problem with major social, health, and economic impacts, felt most acutely by some of th...
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(Book) Le pompage solaire pour l’approvisionnement en eau
Alberto Ibáñez Llario, Asenath W. Kiprono
L’énergie solaire pour le pompage d’eau souterraine renferme un énorme potentiel d’accroissement de la durabilité des systèmes d’approvisionnement en eau. Cependant, le manque de connaissances, de capacité et d’expertise en matière de conception et de mise en oeuvre de ces systèmes ralentit leur ado...
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(Book) Makambo ya ebandeli - Buku Sphère Lingala
The Sphere Handbook presents a principled approach to quality and accountability in humanitarian response. It is a practical translation of Sphere’s core belief that all people affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity and the right to receive humanitarian assistance. The...
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(Book) Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change by Henry Bernstein is the first volume in the Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies Series by ICAS (Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies). It is important to start the series with Henry’s book for at least two reasons: the strategic importance of agrarian politica...
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(Book) Mukanda Wa Sphere Tshiluba
The Sphere Handbook presents a principled approach to quality and accountability in humanitarian response. It is a practical translation of Sphere’s core belief that all people affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity and the right to receive humanitarian assistance. The...
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(Book) Maneno ya utangulizi ya Kitabu Sphere Congo Swahili
The Sphere Handbook presents a principled approach to quality and accountability in humanitarian response. It is a practical translation of Sphere’s core belief that all people affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity and the right to receive humanitarian assistance. The...
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(Book) Mukanda Sphère Kikongo
The Sphere Handbook presents a principled approach to quality and accountability in humanitarian response. It is a practical translation of Sphere’s core belief that all people affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity and the right to receive humanitarian assistance. The...
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(Book) Rural Community Water Supply
The first Water Decade aimed to serve everyone with safe drinking water by 1990. More than three decades later, the task is far from finished; it is now abundantly clear that it will take more time — in some countries much more time — than the 15 years of the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite t...
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(Book) Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-production for Sustainable Cities
Kerstin Hemström, David Simon, Henrietta Palmer, Beth Perry, Merritt Polk
How can we create new practices for research collaboration that mirror the complexities we are facing around the world, including the impacts of climate change, widening inequalities, decreasing biodiversity and untenable consumption levels? Transdisciplinary co-production aims to address this issue...
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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) Tratamiento de lodos fecales
Muchos países de ingresos medios y bajos están viviendo una rápida urbanización, lo cual genera una necesidad imperante e servicios, entre los que se encuentran los servicios de saneamiento. Si bien algunas zonas en pueblos y ciudades cuentan con servicios de alcantarillado, la mayoría de la poblaci...
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(Book) Self-Supply
Sally Sutton, John Butterworth
While governments and development partners focus on improving community and utility-managed water supplies to ensure access for all, hundreds of millions of people are taking actions to supply their own water. In the WASH sector household investment in construction and improvement of facilities is w...
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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...