The following relevant books are available for download from this site:
Incorporating Gender into your NGO
Shedding Abuse – a course for Men who use Domestic Violence
Gender-aware Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration – A Checklist
For an introduction to the discipline and an overview of activities at different levels of care, see our manual Principles and Practice of PHC (Section 4) See our section on Behaviour Change, and our manual Health Education for Behaviour change “Helping Health Workers Learn”, available from Hesperian Health Guides, provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies…
Your organisation has an impact on the environment. How can you make it better?
Silicosis – a Hidden, Lethal Weapon Targeting Mine Workers Silicosis is a disease found in workers in industry – in factories and mines with a lot of dust. Such facilities are found in many pre-industrial countries, and are often tucked away out of sight. Silicosis is caused by dust-sized particles of silicon getting into the…
The concept of value chain is explained in a working paper by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation that highlights the most important issues that development agencies need to consider when they engage in value chain development in rural areas. The paper offers guiding principles for development practitioners and policy makers, and points to…
» SolarAid operates programmes that bring cheap and safe solar power to schools, clinics and homes in some of the most remote regions of Malawi, Uganda and Zambia.
Many of the issues that ‘development’, ‘environmental’, ‘social justice’ and ‘human rights’ groups work on – these are often one and the same.