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Money with a Mission Volume 2: Managing the Social Performance of Microfinance
ISBN: 9781853396151 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a description of the experiences of twelve microfinance organizations in four global regions. It reveals how they developed systems to reach social goals, improve their services, and have an impact on poverty. It uniquely combines a sound academic foundation with practical experience.
This volume provides a description of the experiences of twelve microfinance organizations in four global regions. It reveals how they developed syste...
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Urban Health in Developing Countries: Progress and Prospects
ISBN: 9781853832819 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently. This book addresses the problems in an integrated way, looking in detail at both the problems themselves and the action and research necessary to alleviate them. It includes contributions from leading practitioners and advisors to many of the main international agencies and presents the latest thinking of those institutions. It also presents recent information on research findings, the management and financing of urban health services and trends in urban health policy. Case...
The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently. This book addresses the probl...
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Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781853835209 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, published in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, examines how co-ordinated action among neighbouring countries could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ways which are environmentally, economically and socially beneficial. A framework is presented for analyzing regional mitigation options, along with specific proposals for southern Africa, such as pooling electricity supplies, changing transport patterns and promoting new forms of energy. It shows how regional projects and policies can be developed and supported by the global community to help reduce climate...
This volume, published in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, examines how co-ordinated action among neighbouring countries cou...
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Agro-Mechanical Diffusion in a Backward Region
ISBN: 9781853390234 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exploration of the conditions which characterize the process of a general application of agro-mechanical technology is illustrated through a detailed study of the use of a new agricultural tool in rural India.
This exploration of the conditions which characterize the process of a general application of agro-mechanical technology is illustrated through a deta...
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![Where There Is No Artist: Development Drawings and How to Use Them [With 2 CDROMs] Rohr-Rouendaal, Petra 9781853396137 Practical Action](/9781853396137_where_there_is_no_artist_development_drawings_and_how_to_use_them_with_2_cdroms.jpg "Where There Is No Artist: Development Drawings and How to Use Them [With 2 CDROMs]") |
Where There Is No Artist: Development Drawings and How to Use Them [With 2 CDROMs]
ISBN: 9781853396137 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A picture paints a thousand words, - as the saying goes, and visual aids can provide information, provoke discussion and discovery, and make difficult ideas easy to understand. They can also improve the accessibility of a book or a poster simply by making it look more interesting.
This second edition includes more than 400 drawings relating to a wide range of educational and health issues, along with advice on copying, enlarging, and otherwise changing the illustrations without using special equipment. There is also advice on pre-testing materials, to make sure the intended... -A picture paints a thousand words, - as the saying goes, and visual aids can provide information, provoke discussion and discovery, and make difficul...
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Population, Health and Development in Ghana. Attaining the Millenium Development Goals
ISBN: 9789988647612 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Millennium Development Goals address poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, by the year 2015. In this volume scholars and policymakers in the fields of population and health reflect on the attainments of some of these goals, on the basis of empirical evidence in the Ghanaian context. The eight papers, with an introduction by the editors, synthesises papers presented at a seminar held in Ghana on "Population, Health and Development in Relation to the Millennium Development Goals," organised by the Population Association of Ghana.
The Millennium Development Goals address poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, by the yea...
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A Future for Small States: Overcoming Vulnerability
ISBN: 9780850925111 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a dearth of solid analytical work done on the special problems of small states. This report attempts to overcome that shortcoming and provides a comprehensive analysis of vulnerability of small states in all its dimensions, including political, economic, social and environmental aspects. The Commonwealth's 31 small states (countries with a population of 1.5 million or less) do not form a homogeneous group, but share important characteristics which render them vulnerable, including openness, insularity, enclaveness, weakness and dependence. These characteristics of vulnerability...
There has been a dearth of solid analytical work done on the special problems of small states. This report attempts to overcome that shortcoming and p...
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A Casebook of Social Change in Developing Areas
ISBN: 9780202362175 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues. This volume begins from the premise that economic and technical patterns are embedded in cultural patterns. These patterns of custom and belief are sometimes elaborate, and they can act as barriers to technical or economic change. This volume presents case studies of social change, developing a model for analysis and action. An analytic guide is presented for each case history, and the editor points out factors that influenced the outcome of the project. The volume ais designed for people in... Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues. This volume begins from the premise that economic... |
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Privatization for the Public Good?: Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America
ISBN: 9781597820608 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Youth and the City in the Global South
ISBN: 9780253219695 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and future prospects of urban youth in the developing world. The economic and demographic trends that are transforming cities and widening the gap between North and South are also making it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for young people to establish themselves as independent, self-sufficient adults in many parts of the world. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban... The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and futur... |
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Small Change or Real Change?: Commonwealth Perspectives on Financing Gender Equality
ISBN: 9780850928662 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Small Change or Real Change? presents key thinking from experts around the Commonwealth on a topic which is currently of great international concern: how to ensure that resources are available to effect the changes promised by those promoting gender equality, and how to check that promises turn into results. The contributors, all of them development practitioners coming from diverse backgrounds, share one common goal, to influence governments and bilateral and multilateral organizations to scale up their commitments to financing gender equality.
Small Change or Real Change? presents key thinking from experts around the Commonwealth on a topic which is currently of great international concern: ...
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Human Health and Forests : A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
ISBN: 9781844075324 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa.
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding th...
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The Last Taboo : Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis
ISBN: 9781844075430 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don t mention the shit.A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to a Great Stink, thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere.In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International Year...
Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in shor...
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The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis
ISBN: 9781844075447 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don t mention the shit. A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to a Great Stink, thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere. In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International...
Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in shor...
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Managing Humanitarian Relief
ISBN: 9781853396694 / Angielski / Miękka / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situations or at cross purposes with other agencies.
Managing Humanitarian Relief is aimed at relief workers charged with putting together a program of action to help people in extreme crisis. It provides humanitarian relief managers with a single comprehensive reference for all the management issues they are likely to encounter in the field. The book is organized in two parts. First, it provides an outline of different relief... Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situatio...
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Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction in Latin America: A Technical Guide
ISBN: 9781853396724 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent earthquakes worldwide have highlighted the importance of good disaster planning. Adequate risk assessment and risk reduction strategies, and improved response and reconstruction work have all benefited from the documentation of past disasters.
This practical manual prepared by staff members from Practical Action's regional office in Lima offers an up-to-date resource covering both methodological and technical aspects of disaster mitigation. Rooted in the experiences of the authors and their colleagues of disaster response over the last 20 years, and incorporating... Recent earthquakes worldwide have highlighted the importance of good disaster planning. Adequate risk assessment and risk reduction strategies, and im...
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How Do Children with Disabilities Experi
ISBN: 9781919798622 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is based on information gathered in participatory workshops held with children who have disabilities around South Africa: in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, the Western Cape, and the North West. Emerging themes of the workshops were children's experiences of poverty, disability, abuse, social security, health care, service provision, participation, discrimination and access to socio-economic rights. The study provides information on government programmes, budget allocations and spending on children with disabilities.
This report is based on information gathered in participatory workshops held with children who have disabilities around South Africa: in KwaZulu-Natal...
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Social Change and Health in Tanzania
ISBN: 9789976604061 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa is experiencing dramatic processes of social change, with evident consequences for health. This collection of papers examines the impacts of modern developments on health in Tanzania with a view to establishing patterns at a continental level. The contributors consider how social change is impacting on young people's health, HIV/AIDS and mental health. It further considers the implications of poverty and social inequalities for health, concluding that the poorest suffer the adverse health effects of social change disproportionately; and that the effects of globalisation, if unchecked...
Africa is experiencing dramatic processes of social change, with evident consequences for health. This collection of papers examines the impacts of mo...
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'Lusofonia' em Africa
ISBN: 9782869781740 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative work is the first CODESRIA has published in Portuguese, and the first scholarly work the institution has published on the politics, economics and societies of the Portuguese-speaking African countries, authored by social scientists from those countries. In its engagement with the Portuguese-speaking social science communities in Africa, the publication represents an important milestone for CODESRIA, and a symbolic moment in the development of Lusophone studies on the continent.
This innovative work is the first CODESRIA has published in Portuguese, and the first scholarly work the institution has published on the politics, ec...
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Wellbeing and Development in Peru: Local and Universal Views Confronted
ISBN: 9780230608696 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict.
This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently e...
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