Recent years have seen increased attention paid to all aspects of faecal sludge and septage management. This book is concerned with one aspect of safe management, treatment and the ways in which trea
This book helps gender and development practitioners to understand how to ‘square the circle’ and manage pressure to report on results, while drawing on women’s own perceptions of their lives and gend
Smallholder agriculture is one of the principal economic occupations in the world, being the main source of income and employment for the 70 percent of the world’s poor who live in rural areas. About
Stepping Stones and Stepping Stones Plus is a training package designed to help trainers and community members organize a workshop with young and older women and men, separately and together, to explo
Over the past two decades, Bangladesh has enjoyed impressive economic growth rates and is now poised to become an upper Middle Income Country. Over the same period, the country has made considerable p
This book describes the potential of ferrocement as a construction material; gives details of how septic tanks and aquaprivy waste treatment and soil disposal units are designed and constructed; and g
From indigenous people’s groups to classroom teachers, community workers and international development workers, comes the desire to build community. Participatory Development Practice provides a theor
Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil society organizations, operating within local, national, and
Compiled on behalf of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and South Africa (ATNESA) as a resource book on animal-drawn carts, these guidelines cover all aspects of their design, production and mar
Microplanning is a community-based process which enables local people to prepare and implement programmes for settlement upgrading. Local participants contribute to both the content and structure of p
The world of research run by universities and other institutions is dominated by a culture that is white, upper-middle class and male. When people from communities that have previously been excluded a
Organizations that are strong and wish to contribute to positive and sustainable social change have to be able to learn. The same is true of individuals who want to have a positive impact on their sur
In the developing world, the absence of technologies critical to the attainment of a basic standard of living is starkly obvious. We need a different frame of reference – Technology Justice – to provi
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
