Technology and innovation
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Practical Action’s Livelihood-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Nepal
- D. Willenbocke (ed) / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2011
- This study provides a systematic cost-benefit analysis of a community-based disaster risk management project led by Practical Action in two districts of Nepal over the period 2007 to 2010. The objecti...
- Poor people's energy outlook 2010
- S. Hunt;A. Scott;L. Bates;D. Corbyn / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2010
- One and a half billion of the world’s people have no access to electricity at all, and three billion people rely on traditional biomass and coal for cooking. This report argues that energy pover...
- The Myth of Community: Gender Issues in Participatory Development
- I. Guijt; M. K. Shah / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 1998
- Does a partnership between gender and participation offer opportunities for more equitable development? What opportunities for learning might result? Generally participatory approaches have suffered f...
- The role of new technologies in potable water provision:a stakeholder workshop approach
- David J. Grimshaw;Jack Stilgoe;Lawrence D. Gudza / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2006
- In 2006, researchers from Demos, Practical Action and the University of Lancaster collaborated on a process designed to engage Zimbabwean community groups and scientists from both the North an...
- Sustainable livelihoods from small-scale brick production: building in partnership: the story of Shambob
- L. Lowe;T. Schilderman / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2001
- How can small enterprise development contribute to sustainable livelihoods? What are the knock-on effects in the community of a project putting production in the hands of a co-operative of former b...
- El Asociativismo Municipal como innovación institucional: experiencias en Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia
- Wilson Sagástegui Lozada ;Edwin Suclupe Alvarado / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2007
- Este compendio de estudios de caso fue producido en el marco del Programa de Aprendizaje Regional, PAR, iniciativa conjunta entre la Alianza para el Impacto, AI y el Ministerio Británico par...
- Closed to progress: an assessment of the socio-economic impacts of conflict on pastoral and semi pastoral economies in Kenya and Uganda
- N. Adan;R. Pkalva / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005
- This paper assesses the impact of conflict on social service delivery, agricultural production, trade and investment, as well as the nexus between conflict and HIV AIDS. It particularly focuses on the...
- The crisis in african agriculture: a more effective role of EC Aid?
- Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005
- Agriculture remains key to achieving the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. However, agricultural growth is dropping in sub-Saharan Africa, and development aid to th...
- Food sovereignty: towards democracy in localized food systems
- M. Windfuhr; J. Jonsén / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005
- Food Sovereignty is a policy framework for the governance of food and agriculture, which addresses the problems of hunger and poverty in a new and innovative way. This paper illustrates how the Food S...
- Reaching the last mile: knowledge sharing for development
- S. Talyarkhan; D.J. Grimshaw; L. Lowe / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2004
- The paper characterises the problem of understanding the local context of demand for knowledge by poor people as “reaching the last mile”. From a range of practical studies the paper offers some evide...
