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45 produkter
Can We Know Better?
Reflections for development
Inbunden, 2017
365 kr
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This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone, especially those who are ‘last’. It argues that to do better we need to know better. It provides evidence that what we believe we know in international …
Innovations for Urban Sanitation
Adapting community-led approaches
Av Jamie Myers, Sue Cavill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
717 kr
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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 …
Solar Pumping for Water Supply
Harnessing solar power in humanitarian and development contexts
Av Alberto Ibáñez Llario, Asenath W. Kiprono
Inbunden, 2020
770 kr
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Solar power for pumping groundwater has a vast potential for improving the sustainability of water supply schemes. However experience also shows that a lack of knowledge, capacity and expertise to design and implement such schemes is holding back their adoption. This book bridges this gap to equip …
Solar Pumping for Water Supply
Harnessing solar power in humanitarian and development contexts
Av Alberto Ibáñez Llario, Asenath W. Kiprono
Häftad, 2020
413 kr
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Solar power for pumping groundwater has a vast potential for improving the sustainability of water supply schemes. However experience also shows that a lack of knowledge, capacity and expertise to design and implement such schemes is holding back their adoption. This book bridges this gap to equip …
Self-Supply
Filling the gaps in public water supply provision
Av Sally Sutton, John Butterworth
Inbunden, 2021
912 kr
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Self Supply highlights the approaches used where governments have recognised self-supply, illustrating key technological and socio-economic issues.The book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa where self-supply is especially relevant to the urgent challenge of extending water services to all, as demanded …
Self-Supply
Filling the gaps in public water supply provision
Av Sally Sutton, John Butterworth
Häftad, 2021
359 kr
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Self Supply highlights the approaches used where governments have recognised self-supply, illustrating key technological and socio-economic issues.The book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa where self-supply is especially relevant to the urgent challenge of extending water services to all, as demanded …
What Works for Africa's Poorest Children
From measurement to action
Av David Lawson, Diego Angemi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
940 kr
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While there has been substantial progress in reducing global poverty in recent years, hundreds of millions of vulnerable children remain trapped in extreme poverty. This is especially the case on the African continent, where children account for the majority and growing proportion of the …
What Works for Africa's Poorest Children
From measurement to action
Av David Lawson, Diego Angemi m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
382 kr
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While there has been substantial progress in reducing global poverty in recent years, hundreds of millions of vulnerable children remain trapped in extreme poverty. This is especially the case on the African continent, where children account for the majority and growing proportion of the …
Value Chain Development and the Poor
Promise, delivery, and opportunities for impact at scale
Av Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1042 kr
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This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive learning, new collaborative frameworks, and faster …
Value Chain Development and the Poor
Promise, delivery, and opportunities for impact at scale
Av Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
413 kr
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This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive learning, new collaborative frameworks, and faster …
Living on Little
Navigating financial scarcity in modern Kenya
Inbunden, 2020
683 kr
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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 doesn’t …
Making Market Systems Work for the Poor
Experience inspired by Alan Gibson
Häftad, 2021
294 kr
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‘The M4P approach fosters understanding of the functions and players within market systems and how these can be strengthened in order to better serve the needs of the poor.' Alan Gibson.This collection, all inspired in some way by Gibson’s teachings, is essential reading for practitioners, funders, …
Making Market Systems Work for the Poor
Experience inspired by Alan Gibson
Inbunden, 2021
683 kr
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'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 …
Rural Community Water Supply
Sustainable services for all
Häftad, 2021
323 kr
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Richard Carter weaves together the myriad of factors that need to come together to make rural water supply truly available to everyone. He concludes that ultimately, systemic change to the global web of injustice that divides this world into rich and poor may be the only way to address the …
Rural Community Water Supply
Sustainable services for all
Inbunden, 2021
793 kr
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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 …
From Infrastructure to Services
Trends in monitoring sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services
Av Ton Schouten, Stef Smits m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
556 kr
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Still Standing?
Looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing
Av Theo Schilderman, Eleanor Parker
Inbunden, 2014
566 kr
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This book describes the stories of the project beneficiaries and how their houses have changed, within contexts that have kept changing too. Still Standing? is essential reading for architects and engineers involved in humanitarian fieldwork as well as students and researchers concerned with …
What Works for Africa's Poorest
Programmes and policies for the extreme poor
Av David Lawson, David Hulme m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
815 kr
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Although great strides have been made, Africa still lags behind other parts of the world in the reduction of poverty. We now know that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction programmes, and this is especially true in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Microfinance programmes, …
What Works for Africa's Poorest
Programmes and policies for the extreme poor
Av David Lawson, David Hulme m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
332 kr
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Water Is Life
Progress to secure water provision in rural Uganda
Av Suzanne Linnane, Honor Fagan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
642 kr
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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 …
Water Is Life
Progress to secure water provision in rural Uganda
Av G. Honor Fagan, Suzanne Linnane m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
263 kr
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Water is Life is based on research collaboration between Irish and Ugandan higher education institutes and NGOs, centring on communities in rural Uganda. Studies by social, physical and environmental scientists proposes solutions for community water supply that have eluded government initiatives …
Sustainable Sanitation for All
Experiences, challenges and innovations
Av Naomi Vernon, Petra Bongartz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
727 kr
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Great strides have been made in improving sanitation in many developing countries. Yet, 2.4 billion people worldwide still lack access to adequate sanitation facilities and the poorest and most vulnerable members of society are often not reached and their specific needs are not met. Moreover, …
Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation
Lessons from Africa
Av Nigel Poole
Inbunden, 2017
614 kr
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Small-scale agriculture is the main livelihood of the majority of the world’s rural poor. Smallholder farmers in the global South play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity, as well as contributing to food security in their countries. However, they need to be connected to markets to see …
Can We Know Better?
Reflections for development
Häftad, 2017
375 kr
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This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone. It argues that to do better we need to know better and provides evidence that what we believe we know in international development is often distorted or …
Putting Knowledge to Work
Collaborating, influencing and learning for international development
Av Luc J.A Mougeot, Luc Mougeot
Inbunden, 2017
727 kr
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Producing knowledge that is relevant and can be acted upon is essential for international development. There is a renewed urgency for knowledge from the civil society sector, particularly non-academic organizations, to be acknowledged and recorded, to be distilled and leveraged, in order to help …
Putting Knowledge to Work
Collaborating, influencing and learning for international development
Av Luc Mougeot
Häftad, 2017
293 kr
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MSP Guide
How to design and facilitate multi-stakeholder partnerships
Av Herman Brouwer, Jim Woodhill
Häftad, 2016
295 kr
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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, …
Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment
A guide for low and middle income countries
Av Kevin Tayler
Inbunden, 2018
727 kr
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Many middle- and low-income countries are experiencing rapid urbanization, which creates a need for services, including sanitation. While some areas insome towns and cities are sewered, most people, especially the urban poor, continue to use various forms of on-site sanitation. These require …
Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment
A guide for low and middle income countries
Av Kevin Tayler
Häftad, 2018
389 kr
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