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• (Journal Article) Developing the next generation of economic citizens: financial inclusion and education for children and youth

  01.09.2013
  In order for young people to achieve their potential as empowered and engaged economic citizens, they must have access to safe and appropriate financial services and quality financial, social, and livelihoods education. The Child and Youth Finance Movement is uniting government authorities, financial service providers, academics, and youth serving organizations from across the world to advance financial inclusion and economic citizenship education at the global, regional, and national level. This article explains the central components of the child and youth finance movement, examines the evidence base for the movement's Theory of Change and explores how various partners and stakeholders in the movement are working to create an ecosystem for the next generation of economic citizens.

• (Journal Article) Diary

  01.07.1991
  

• (Journal Article) Waterpoints

  01.07.1998
  

• (Journal Article) Books

  01.10.1996
  

• (Journal Article) Menstrual hygiene management in disasters: the concerns, needs, and preferences of women and girls in Vanuatu

  01.07.2021
  In disaster settings, women and girls face additional challenges in safely managing menstruation with confidence and dignity. Assessing women’s and girls’ needs and preferences at country level prior to a disaster assists Red Cross National Societies with preparedness planning and development of local menstrual hygiene management (MHM) kits for pre-positioning. This study, conducted in Vanuatu, examined the experiences, concerns, needs, and preferences of women and girls in managing menstruation in disasters. Participants trialled one of four different sanitary products included in a MHM kit. Absorbency, security of fit, and odour were the main determinants of product acceptability. Water supply and safe disposal options influenced the preference for either reusable or disposable products. Access to sanitary products, distribution processes, water supply, and privacy were key concerns. Detailed recommendations within this paper will support the Vanuatu Red Cross in decision making and programming for MHM in disaster preparedness and response.

• (Journal Article) Do microfinance investment managers add value, and how?

  01.12.2016
  The purpose of this paper is to analyse and describe whether or not microfinance investment managers add value for their clients and investors, and how, which is important to enhance the understanding of the microfinance investment market. This is achieved by analysing whether microfinance investment managers deliver on their promise of a double bottom line with social and financial performance. This analysis is based on a database of a pioneering microfinance investment manager, including data on 1,465 loans to microfinance institutions (MFI) from 2003 to 2014. The results are based on descriptive analyses and a logistic regression analysis. The results of this paper’s analysis provide the following indications: First, microfinance investment managers add value by acting as stewards for socially responsible investors. Second, microfinance investment managers as intermediaries have provided a predictable and stable source of funding to MFIs as regards interest rate costs and loan duration to maturity over the past 10 years, despite the financial crisis in 2008. Third, the microfinance market is associated with high credit risk and microfinance investment managers provide risk management and diversification.

• (Journal Article) Remittances: the new development finance?

  01.03.2004
  As the level of international remittances sent home to developing countries overtakes official development assistance and continues to rise, it is becoming dubbed by some as the new development finance. International agencies are recognizing the importance of remittances, and this article reflects on a conference organized by the World Bank and DFID on this subject which explored, among other issues, what governments and donors can do to enhance the positive impact of the remittance industry on the poor. Areas discussed include: lowering transfer costs by promoting competition, appropriate levels of regulation, researching underserved markets, widening access to rural communities and seeing the potential for boosting banking services among the previously unserved.

• (Journal Article) Diary

  01.04.1987
  

• (Journal Article) Succeeded where others have failed? Has Rojiroti’s model of microfinance led to a reduction in domestic violence?

  01.09.2016
  Rojiroti is a small organization delivering microfinance to the poorest women in Bihar. This article explores Rojiroti’s panel data which shows a decline in domestic violence among its members, acknowledging that this result contradicts much of the existing literature on this topic. Detailed analysis of relevant literature and extensive fieldwork involving qualitative interviews with 16 Rojiroti Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in July 2015 inform the outcomes of this inquiry. While evidence from other microfinance organizations is less positive, there are indications that the specific approach to microfinance initiatives by Rojiroti in this context is successful in reducing rates of domestic violence.

• (Journal Article) Webwatch

  01.10.2000
  

• (Journal Article) Wastewater reuse for agriculture and aquaculture – current and future perspectives for low-income countries

  01.07.2004
  Exploiting the nutrient and water value in wastewater through agriculture and aquaculture may also help limit uncontained pollution that results from unregulated disposal of wastewater in surface water bodies. Treatment processes form an important part of wastewater reuse strategies, alongside other measures to protect health, but a concerted effort to promote capacity at all levels is required to enable the benefits of wastewater reuse to be realized.

• (Journal Article) The rebirth of the hydraulic ram pump

  01.10.1993
  The principles of ram pump technology have been used to develop a new, more efficient form of hydraulic ram pump — the Platypus Pump.

• (Journal Article) Treating industrial wastes in Colombia using water hyacinth

  01.07.2002
  Water hyacinth can absorb pollutants from domestic and industrial wastewater. It has been used in a treatment system outside an aluminium factory in Colombia for over 10 years now, and results show that the removal of many pollutants is over 90 per cent.

• (Journal Article) Achieving success in community water supply and sanitation projects

  01.10.1986
  

• (Journal Article) Webwatch

  01.10.2001
  

• (Journal Article) Diary

  01.04.2004
  

• (Journal Article) The need for an integrated approach

  01.01.1994
  Land and water resources are so intrinsically linked that it is impossible to study or try to manage one without considering the effects on the other.

• (Journal Article) WAMMA – Scaling up water and sanitation in rural Tanzania

  01.10.2004
  In the early 1990s the Government of Tanzania recognized that it could not provide free water for all, and handed over responsibility for rural water supply to the villages. This article examines the role of WAMMA, a multi-department government team that assists villagers with this task. Ten years later, has WAMMA worked?

• (Journal Article) Editorial: rainwater harvesting

  01.04.2014
  

• (Journal Article) Diary

  01.10.1990