Originally written for the construction of gravity-flow drinking water systems in Nepal, this boo...

This book gives information about printing processes relevant to small-scale production units. It...

Articles such as hospital and school equipment - bed frames, chairs, tables, handrails - all requ...

This ITDG Working Paper analyses the experience of a farmers' jury in Zimbabwe. Representatives o...

Case studies from Argentina, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Tanzania, Peru, the Philippines and ...

Eminent development economists tackle the question of how to design, construct and administer an ...

This book is a pioneering, comparative study of the practice of intercropping (growing two or mor...

This book brings together important aspects of both the technological and business skills needed ...

Modern' or 'new paradigm' microfinancial services are reaching perhaps as many as twenty million ...

This collection of articles includes case studies of attempts to improve small-scale food process...

This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first give...

Contains information on tools, maintenance of tools, rural building materials, rural building pro...

Occupational change is generally assumed to accompany 'development' and to be a necessary part of...

Community Health and Sanitation presents a community-sensitive approach to the developing world's...

Contains information on basic masonry techniques, basic carpentry techniques and preparation for ...

This set of ten papers brings together lessons and experience on women's leadership and participa...

Stepping Stones with Children (available in Swahili) covers a wide range of topics with a gendere...

Written and designed for development workers, farmers and agricultural fieldworkers, researchers ...

As development NGOs and official aid agencies embrace the idea of 'becoming a learning organisati...

Violence and women's fear of it limits women's choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has l...

If information flows well between and within organizations, it empowers people by enabling them t...

A guide for anyone who wishes to equip a workshop, from the basic tools required for a one or two...

This guide firstly discusses the various methods of seed-bed preparation with a description of ha...

This book explores gender-based violence and disability from the vantage point of resistance move...

Finding somewhere decent and affordable to live is proving increasingly difficult in urban areas ...

L'énergie solaire pour le pompage d'eau souterraine renferme un énorme potentiel d'accroissement ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the tragic war in Ukraine illustrate that fossil fuel subsidy reform wi...

Agroecology is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overcome the interlinking...

Over half the world's population now lives in urban areas and a large proportion of them lives wi...

PRA approaches have opened up new ways in which policy can be influenced by those who are poor, w...

Development has failed to deliver on many of its promises to nations such as Bangladesh. Even wor...

An ideal addition to the toolkit of anyone involved in the installation of solar powered photovol...

Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response brings together, for the first time, information o...

This book includes development successes and failures, shares observations and lessons from the f...

This book provides an insight into development project planning and management by guiding the rea...

This book compares the experiences of structural adjustment in developing countries and the trans...

This revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of ...

This book presents cases of indigenous experimentation as well as the benefits in terms of rural ...

The report has been prepared and published with resources from the campaign europAfrica: towards ...

This book deals with the design and production of artwork. 'Camera-ready' artwork means the mater...

A collection of papers from an international workshop on the dissemination of improved stoves. Th...

An illustrated guide to the use and design of cycle trailers in urban and rural areas. Contains n...

An objective account of a major Oxfam initiative: the Wajir Pastoral Development Project in north...

This book describes the potential of ferrocement as a construction material; gives details of how...

This will help the managers of development projects to design and manage their projects well, in ...

Successful, established AT projects: forestry in Swaziland, Kenyan stoves, micro-hydro in Nepal, ...

Writers in this book explore women's experience of care work in different contexts from a feminis...

Chayanov presents a fascinating vision of the struggle of the Russian, and international, coopera...