For all those involved in simple engineering work in rural areas. Deals with site surveying, engineering materials, water supplies, sanitation in general, planning and construction of roads, simple river crossings, bridges and small dams.
40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development invites readers to deepen their practice by reflecting on the roots of their practice, expand their practice through introduction to thinkers who perhaps people have not heard of before, and to disrupt practice by re-thinking taken-for-granted assumptions or habits.
Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge, and its extent. It goes on to explore women's role in the innovation process and how technical innovation has conventionally ignored this. This ar...
This book looks at some of the experiences of small and medium enterprises projects. Four themes considered of central importance to SME development, financial support, technical and management services, favourable policies conducive to SME development and the involvement of international donor agencies, are examined.
Presents the principles of communicating the information needed for building improvement. Covers the uses of different media to convey information and describes the use of graphic design for education.
Looking Beyond Credit assesses the need for targeted business development services other than finance, their growing importance among small producers and how they can work in tandem with credit schemes.
Originally written for the construction of gravity-flow drinking water systems in Nepal, this book is equally applicable for other locations around the world. Organized for quick reference, it is quickly and easily understood.
Consists of thirty-nine original cases by contributors from the global North and South. Covers Latin America, Asia, and Africa From agricultural production to post-harvest activities, this handbook offers a practical set of tools for anyone interested in gender analysis in agriculture.
This book examines the contribution of rural manufacturing in central African economies, particularly as a service to the agricultural base. The author argues that self-sustaining small-scale rural workshops are vital to rural development.
This handbook describes a range of hand tools and simple muscle-powered machinery appropriate to developing countries where abundant labour can offset the problems of limited funds or unreliable sources of energy for mechanization.
Provides instructions on small-scale soap production methods. A practical introduction, with many illustrations, based on the author's experiences in Ghana.
This book describes a practical solution to the lack of basic sanitation facilities in the form of a 'Sanplat': a specially designed concrete platform which can be installed easily in rural latrines to improve sanitation and safety, built using locally available materials and skills, affordable and appropriate to the needs of rural communities.
The text and line drawings describe chemical dyeing and printing techniques as they apply to small-scale operations, and how to plan for small-scale production.(Published in the Small-scale Textiles series).
A state of the art survey of the use of photovoltaics in developing countries, in pumping, refrigerators, lighting, rural electrification and agriculture, from a UNESCO report.
Revised edition of this practical survey of low-cost stoves for use in developing countries. Prepared for skilled technicians who will be able to use the drawings as a basis for building stove models, for testing and adaptation to local conditions.
This book gives many proved and practical ways of getting the transformation process started. Book 4 focuses on five issues which have become more prominent in the concerns of communities throughout the world: the environment, gender and development, ethnic and racial conflict, intercultural understanding, building participatory governance.
This book traces the development of Ghana's informal engineering sector through stories of the progress of the actual people involved. The first generation of grassroots engineers are wayside vehicle mechanics, or "fitters, " engaged in repairing machinery. The author argues that the evolution of a fitter, from this role to that of a manufacturer of tools, machines and equipment serving a wide range of 'secondary' urban andrural industries, is...
In many developing countries access to veterinary services is a particular problem in rural areas, and poor farmers suffer significant losses due to preventable livestock diseases. This book describes three Intermediate Technology programmes built from local knowledge.
