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Live Well, Live Wisely! enables teachers to deliver education for sustainable development from a global perspective within the subject areas of design, technology and geography at key stage 3 of the UK National Curriculum (11-14 year olds).

This book focuses on participatory capacity-building in ways that address the practical needs and strategic interests of the disadvantaged and disempowered - it examines how differences in class, ethnicity, race, caste, religion, age and gender lead to the 'politics of exclusion'.

This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, urban-based girls and young women, by presenting successful projects which clearly demonstrate what can be done on a broad range of fronts, and answering: what do they need, and what kind of programmes have been successful in meeting those needs

This book includes development successes and failures, shares observations and lessons from the field, clarifies the challenges and realities of rural development work and provides guidance for donors and practitioners who understand that the complexities of smallholder farm life demand complete, rather than partial, responses and support.

This book provides a concise guide to all the essential steps for setting up wind business services in developing countries. It deals with all the key aspects of promoting wind energy for domestic end uses, as well as giving a guide to needs assessment, resource assessment, the economics of small wind machines and technology choice.

This book gives many proved and practical ways of getting the transformation process started. Book 4 focuses on five issues which have become more prominent in the concerns of communities throughout the world: the environment; gender and development; ethnic and racial conflict; intercultural understanding; building participatory governance.

Norman Uphoff draws far reaching conclusions from the Gal Oya project for participatory development and contemporary social science; he documents and analyses the remarkable progress made by farmers, community organizers, officials, researchers and policy makers, iteratively forging progressive changes in the midst of ethnic and political strife.

This book explores and sets out methodologies for understanding qualitatively the dynamics of poverty and urban development. Organized into three parts, the book adopts as its principal theme poverty and the eradication of extreme poverty.

This manual provides practical methodological guidance for the economic analysis of stakeholder incentives in participatory forest management (PFM) situations, it also aims to make economics more accessible to a wider audience promoting PFM.

A comprehensive and illustrated handbook which will be essential reading for anyone involved in construction. Earth is extremely versatile and cheap but users must have a proper knowledge of its real potential in order to use it to its best effect.

Presents the key issues and challenges involved in facilitating children and young people's participation. Essential reading for professionals, agencies and institutions working with and for children, and in development, as well as professionals involved in participatory approaches.

This book provides an insight into development project planning and management by guiding the reader, chapter by chapter, through the stages from concept to completion.

The recent trend of participatory approaches presents challenges to those working in the development sector. Who Changes? draws together, for the first time, lessons and experiences from key development agencies around the globe on the institutional change needed to make participation a reality. The book explores the main issues and concerns of development professionals involved in PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) practices: adapting PRA methods from micro to macro organizations and the type of changes required by an organization to implement PRA effectively. In addition, the reader is provided with a checklist of practical considerations to guide them through this complex field: training programmes and training needs for all those involved in the participation programme, implementing projects from piloting stages to gradual scaling up, institutional change and the changing cultures and procedures of hierarchical organizations, and participatory monitoring and evaluation. Containing highly readable accounts and clear summaries by development workers from a variety of development settings across the globe, Who Changes? will be a valuable asset to all development professionals concerned with PRA approaches from fieldworkers to practitioners and policy makers.

The book contains over 1,200 drawings relating to a wide range of educational and health issues, along with advice on copying, enlarging, changing illustrations to make them appropriate to a particular situation, without using special equipment, with advice on pre-testing materials, to make sure they are understood by the intended audience.

This book brings together some of the greatest names in development practice including Robert Chambers, and Jules Pretty, embracing a range of entry points and experiences, to articulate the forms of practice that have come to be called 'PRA' Participatory Rural Appraisal; the most popularly recognized and widely used approach to participation..

This title provides a source of information on all aspects of water engineering and technology. Emphasis is placed on small-scale supply, the needs of poorer communities and on the importance of environmental sustainability.The entries cover water supplies for urban and rural communities, wastewater systems, water resources, hydrology, irrigation, river improvement, drainage, erosion, groundwater exploration, hydrography, flood protection, hydraulic machines, dams and water power.The dictionary is designed to meet the needs of engineers, technicians and students throughout the world. It is a practical handbook for down-to-earth use by all those involved in sustainable development programmes from planners to fieldworkers.

Starting with only an anvil and a few basic tools, almost all the tools needed by a blacksmith can be made from commonly found materials. With clear instructions this book gives step by step instructions on basic blacksmithing.

Describes different materials and techniques, showing methods suited to small-scale producers on a cottage industry level, or the individual at home. With help on techniques, terminology and equipment, and a troubleshooting chart.

The artisanal mining of alluvial gold is an extremely common small mining activity in many countries. This is a comprehensive and practical guide aimed at filling a need for improved goldmining techniques.

This paper summarizes the findings from a research project conducted by ITDG and Cranfield School of Management (Bedford, UK) into using ICTs (like the Internet or mobile telephony) to share information with people at grassroots level - "connecting the first mile".

Critically assesses how women can be involved more appropriately and equally in participatory approaches and how gender issues can be tackled more meaningfully. Containing a rich array of contributions this book provides a variety of viewpoints and perspectives from those most closely involved in participatory approaches to development.

Step-by-step instructions on designing, installing and operating water supply systems based on hydraulic ram pumps. With illustrations and diagrams, and details of a pump designed for local manufacture and notes for those developing their own model.

Farmer First presents a new paradigm and methods for agricultural research. Starting with farmers' own capacity for innovation, contributors from the agricultural and social sciences, ecology, economics and geography make the case for a farmer-first mode to complement the traditional transfer of technology.

The recent revisions of housing standards in Kenya and Zimbabwe are explored, their origin, the participants involved, their relevance to low-income residents, their impact as well as lessons learned. Overriding issues, such as informal enforcement, which emerge from work with low-income residents, and how to get future standards right is examined.

Development professionals now need new approaches and methods for interacting, learning and knowing. Through analysing experience - of past mistakes and myths, and of the continuing methodological revolution of PRA (participatory rural appraisal) - the author points towards solutions.