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Guidelines on water and sanitation programmes and livelihoods
Department for International Development, UK, 1998
Because the effectiveness and sustainability of Water Supply and Sanitation projects depends not only on technology choice, but also, critically, on user involvement, the right gender approaches, innovative use of community-based fina...
A look at organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy
K. Pasteur / Eldis Document Store, 2002
How does organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy take place?What factors facilitate or inhibit the policy implementation process? This publication examines the process of change towards participatory approac...
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...
Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
Supporting rural livelihoods through water investment in sub-Saharan Africa
Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in ord...
Drought response in Ethiopia: towards more timely, appropriate interventions
S. Pantuliano; M. Wekesa / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
This study provides an overview of the timing, appropriateness and efficacy of interventions in response to the drought that affected the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia in 2005/2006. It identifies mechanisms to initiate more timely and...
How to scale up participatory methodologies: the example of CLTS
A. Deak / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
When a process leads to positive change, it is desirable to instigate that process elsewhere. This paper proposes that ‘going to scale’ though, is multi-dimensional and complex. It examines the issues through Community-led...
Protecting pastoralists' livelihoods: lessons from Ngorongoro, Tanzania
N. Kipuri; C. Sørensen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to  livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies. This paper discusses strategi...
How to facilitate community-led total sanitation
K. Kar; R. Chambers / Plan International, 2008
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory process focused on promoting change in sanitation behaviour through social action - stimulated by facilitators from within or outside the community. Aimed at empo...
Does policy pay enough attention to the interaction between water and forests?
A. Perlis (ed) / Unasylva, FAO, 2008
Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests. In this issue of FAO's Unasylva, a collection of articl...
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Items 21 to 30 of 48

A look at organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy
K. Pasteur / Eldis Document Store, 2002
How does organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy take place?What factors facilitate or inhibit the policy implementation process? This publication examines the process of change towards participatory approac...
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...
Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
Supporting rural livelihoods through water investment in sub-Saharan Africa
Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in ord...
Drought response in Ethiopia: towards more timely, appropriate interventions
S. Pantuliano; M. Wekesa / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
This study provides an overview of the timing, appropriateness and efficacy of interventions in response to the drought that affected the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia in 2005/2006. It identifies mechanisms to initiate more timely and...
How to scale up participatory methodologies: the example of CLTS
A. Deak / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
When a process leads to positive change, it is desirable to instigate that process elsewhere. This paper proposes that ‘going to scale’ though, is multi-dimensional and complex. It examines the issues through Community-led...
Protecting pastoralists' livelihoods: lessons from Ngorongoro, Tanzania
N. Kipuri; C. Sørensen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to  livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies. This paper discusses strategi...
How to facilitate community-led total sanitation
K. Kar; R. Chambers / Plan International, 2008
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory process focused on promoting change in sanitation behaviour through social action - stimulated by facilitators from within or outside the community. Aimed at empo...
Does policy pay enough attention to the interaction between water and forests?
A. Perlis (ed) / Unasylva, FAO, 2008
Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests. In this issue of FAO's Unasylva, a collection of articl...
How can communities in Viet Nam adapt to recurring droughts?
R. Shaw; S., V., R., K. Prabhakar; H. Nguyen; P. Mondal / Oxfam, 2007
This paper presents a study on the impacts of recurring droughts on communities in the Ninh Thuan province of Viet Nam. It examines the root causes of drought in the region, people's perceptions of drought-related vulnerabilities...
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Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
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