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(Book) Poor People's Energy Outlook 2019
PPEO 2019 is the culmination of five years’ research, exploring what it takes to realise the kinds of energy services that enable people living in energy poverty to thrive. The report compiles and updates key messages and recommendations on energy access planning (PPEO 2016), financing (PPEO 2017) a...
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(Book) Small-scale Soapmaking
Provides instructions on small-scale soap production methods. A practical introduction, with many illustrations, based on the author's experiences in Ghana.
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(Book) Measuring Energy Access in India
This briefing paper reports on the largest energy access survey ever conducted in India, covering a representative sample of the rural poor across six states with interviews in 8,566 households. It adapts the World Bank’s multi-tier framework to measure access to household electricity and clean cook...
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(Book) Scaling up Agroecology
Chris Henderson, Jonathan Casey
To eradicate extreme poverty means focusing on the 500 million smallholders so they can reliably generate more food and income from their agricultural activities. This paper uses the three pillars of Technology Justice (access, local innovation, and sustainable use of technologies) to assess the ran...
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(Book) El Manual Esfera
El Manual Esfera presenta un enfoque basado en principios para abordar la calidad y la rendición de cuentas en las respuestas humanitarias. Traduce a la práctica la convicción fundamental de Esfera de que todas las personas afectadas por desastres o conflictos tienen derecho a una vida con dignidad...
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(Book) Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Arabic
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) 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) 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) Innovations for Urban Sanitation
Jamie Myers, Sue Cavill, Samuel Musyoki, Katherine Pasteur, Lucy Stevens
Over half the world’s population now lives in urban areas and a large proportion of them lives without improved sanitation. Efforts to tackle open defecation in rural areas has been led by the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) movement. But how can the community mobilization techniques of CLTS b...
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(Book) Water Is Life
G. Honor Fagan, Suzanne Linnane, Kevin G. McGuigan, Albert Rugumayo
A safe, adequate water supply within easy reach is still a dream for many people living in rural Africa. This book examines why such a basic service is not yet universally available by studying in detail one particular region of rural Uganda. What is the experience of women and children who have re...
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(Book) Technology Justice and Faecal Sludge Management
While globally rates of access to improved sanitation remain woefully low, Bangladesh stands out as a country that has made remarkable progress in eliminating the scourge of open defecation. However, across the country’s growing urban centres, this success has created a so-called ‘second-generation’...
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(Book) Technology Justice
Half of the world is without access to basic technologies that deliver clean water and sanitation, a modern energy supply, generic medicines, and mechanized agriculture — and the other half takes these technologies for granted. This publication presents the concept of Technology Justice and the case...
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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) 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) Panorama energético de los pobres 2018
El acceso a la energía para todos se ha consagrado en la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS 7) y el Acuerdo de París relativo al cambio climático, y, hoy en día, se acepta de forma generalizada que aporta bienestar y grandes beneficios para el desarrollo. No obstante, sigue sin comprende...
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(Book) Speculative Harvests
Jennifer Clapp, S. Ryan Isakson
In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of fin...
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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) Normas Mínimas Para la Protección de la Niñez y Adolescencia en la Acción Humanitaria
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children
La edición de 2019 de las Normas mínimas para la protección de la niñez y adolescencia en la acción humanitaria (NMPNA) es una "ventanilla única" para todos los recursos más recientes sobre protección de la infancia. Las NMPNA tienen como objetivo fortalecer la calidad y la responsabilidad en los pr...
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(Book) Living on Little
Living on Little illuminates the many deep and overlooked ways that scarcity shapes the lives of ordinary Kenyans. Drawing on four years of systematic research with nearly 300 low-income families, this book offers readers a new and intimate perspective on poverty. Living on very little money doe...
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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...