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Wireless networking for rural development: A success story from Nepal
This paper presents a case study evaluation of Nepal Wireless Networking Project. With the aim of overcoming the digital divide, the project aims to increase communication facilities in the mountainous areas, thereby increasing educational opportunities in the community, helping villagers to buy and sell products and creating jobs This project is described as one of few tangible examples of...
Actions on relevance of science, engineering and technology training to development challenges in Africa

This report summarises the outcome of deliberations on relevance of science, engineering and technology training to development challenges in Africa. The conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa 25-17 September 2007 was the second in a series after the first such held in Accra, Ghana in 2005.

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) have been the main instruments that have been...

Voices for change: Participatory monitoring and evaluation in China
This volume presents a remarkably compelling and frank account of the most recent of a series of actions undertaken over the last decade by scientists in southwest China to integrate the concerns and work of rural men and women into applied research and development to alleviate poverty. These chapters describe and assess the first efforts in China to incorporate participatory monitoring and...
Enhancing organizational performance: A toolbox for self-assessment
Organizations usually conduct self-assessments to better understand their own performance and to address their strategic issues and thus, ultimately, to improve their performance. Organizational self-assessment is often used as a diagnostic, or a starting point, for organizations implementing an internal change or strategic planning process, or both. It can also be used as a way to engage in...
Proceedings of the ESPA methodology workshop

The major objectives of the ESPA methodology workshop were:

  • To bring the consortium together for closer interactions and exchanges of ideas
  • To provide an overview of the work that needed to undertaken in order to complete the situation analysis leading to a common understanding of the deliverables and timetable
  • To achieve...
Passive solar architecture in Ladakh
Passive Solar Architecture is a way of designing buildings that takes advantage of the benefits of the local environment (such as sunlight), while minimising the adverse impacts of the climate (such as cold night time temperatures) on the comfort level of the building. The aim of a passive solar building is to absorb (in winter) the maximum amount of radiation from the sun during the day, and to...
A manual of solar greenhouse running in trans-Himalayas

In these areas agriculture is fully dependent on irrigation and water is coming from melting glaciers. The main crops are barley, wheat and alfalfa. Potatoes are also important in some places. The growing season is from April/May to September/October, depending on altitude, and is often too short to grow vegetables outside. Extending this growing period by the use of a greenhouse can be...

Mountain tourism for local development: Training manual for programme designers and implementers in tourism and related areas

Training consists of an overview of tourism and impacts; sustainable mountain tourism development and it’s planning and management; technologies for environment management; community and participatory planning; monitoring and evaluation.

This publication can be downloaded from ICIMOD's Books On-line at http://books.icimod.org

Advocacy strategies and approaches: A training of trainers manual

Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, and its companion Resource Manual, were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on advocacy...

Advocacy strategies and approaches: A resource manual for community advocates and trainers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, and its companion Resource Manual, were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on advocacy...

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