Tools
- Water for productive use through sustainable livelihoods and participatory action approaches
- Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2004
- This file, designed for water sector and rural development practitioners, contains detailed guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process. Securing water to enhance local livelihoods (SWELL) is an initiative tha...
- Practical guide to improving access to finance in rural areas
- T. de Klerk / Network Learning, 2009
- Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings a...
- Technology-based vocational skills training for marginalized girls and young women in Indonesia
- G. Dunkley; C. Haddad (ed) / UNESCO Bangkok, 2008
- In most impoverished communities, there has long been a heavy reliance on self-help mechanisms and micro-enterprise development (especially among women) in the informal economy for household and community survival and local income-gen...
- Participatory Impact assessment for livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector
- A. Catley; J. Burns; D. Abebe; O. Suji / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
- The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions. Institutionalising good practice i...
- Analysis and assessment using HEAs
- International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
- The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper. It helps determine people’s food and non-food needs and identify ap...
- Incorporating institutional and livelihoods analysis into project preparations
- A. Steward Carloni; E. Crowley / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
- How can project planners better identify and understand the different types of formal and informal local institutions affecting rural livelihoods? How can project design incorporate these insights? This practical guide prepared by the...
- How to implement participatory water monitoring
- The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, 2008
- Participatory monitoring is one established and accepted way for the public to make informed decisions. Through the collection of data that is credible to multiple parties, participatory monitoring can become an essential instrument f...
- Community based disaster preparedness in the Philippines
- K. Falk (ed); L. Nørgaard (ed); J. MacLean (ed) / ProVention Consortium, 2005
- During the past decade less people have died in natural disasters, but more and more lives and livelihoods are affected by the negative consequences of them. The increase is steep, triggered by more frequent extreme weather conditions...
- Exploring the issues facing women with HIV in India
- Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
- This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV,&nbs...
- How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions
- R. Degnan Kambou; M.K Adams; M. Kaul Shah; X. M.V Mahlalela / Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2006
- While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can appear overwhelming and confusing, it should not be assumed that it can only be carried out by professional M&E experts. Organisations should be able, and be enabled,&nb...
- Practical guide to improving access to finance in rural areas
- T. de Klerk / Network Learning, 2009
- Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings a...
- Technology-based vocational skills training for marginalized girls and young women in Indonesia
- G. Dunkley; C. Haddad (ed) / UNESCO Bangkok, 2008
- In most impoverished communities, there has long been a heavy reliance on self-help mechanisms and micro-enterprise development (especially among women) in the informal economy for household and community survival and local income-gen...
- Participatory Impact assessment for livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector
- A. Catley; J. Burns; D. Abebe; O. Suji / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
- The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions. Institutionalising good practice i...
- Analysis and assessment using HEAs
- International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
- The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper. It helps determine people’s food and non-food needs and identify ap...
- Incorporating institutional and livelihoods analysis into project preparations
- A. Steward Carloni; E. Crowley / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
- How can project planners better identify and understand the different types of formal and informal local institutions affecting rural livelihoods? How can project design incorporate these insights? This practical guide prepared by the...
- How to implement participatory water monitoring
- The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, 2008
- Participatory monitoring is one established and accepted way for the public to make informed decisions. Through the collection of data that is credible to multiple parties, participatory monitoring can become an essential instrument f...
- Community based disaster preparedness in the Philippines
- K. Falk (ed); L. Nørgaard (ed); J. MacLean (ed) / ProVention Consortium, 2005
- During the past decade less people have died in natural disasters, but more and more lives and livelihoods are affected by the negative consequences of them. The increase is steep, triggered by more frequent extreme weather conditions...
- Exploring the issues facing women with HIV in India
- Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
- This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV,&nbs...
- How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions
- R. Degnan Kambou; M.K Adams; M. Kaul Shah; X. M.V Mahlalela / Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2006
- While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can appear overwhelming and confusing, it should not be assumed that it can only be carried out by professional M&E experts. Organisations should be able, and be enabled,&nb...
- A review of participatory tools for natural resource management
- T. Lyman; W. de Jong; D Sheil / Ecology and Society, 2007
- A number of tools are available to elicit the knowledge, values, and preferences of communities. This paper provides a review of a selection of participatory tools in the analysis, synthesis, and decision making related to natural res...
- Sustainable Community Development Services (SCODE)
- SCODE is a national NGO whose aim is to enable people in Kenya especially the poor, to improve their quality of life by adopting technologies and approaches that are environmental friendly and contribute towards sustainable development.
