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Can We Know Better?: Reflections for Development

Published by: Practical Action Publishing

This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone, especially those who are ‘last’. It argues that to do better we need to know better. It provides evidence that what we believe we know in international development is often distorted or unbalanced by errors, myths, biases and blind spots.

Can We Know Better? Reflections for Development

Published by: Practical Action Publishing

Vulnerability, Coping and Policy (Editorial Introduction)

‘Vulnerable’ and ‘vulnerability’ are common terms in the lexicon of development, but their use is often vague. They serve as...

Transforming Power: From Zero-Sum to Win-Win?

Being asked by the editors to describe my personal journey to a current focus on issues of power, and striving to do this in a spirit of...

A Revolution Whose Time Has Come? The Win?Win of Quantitative Participatory Approaches and Methods

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article explores the potential presented by quantitative participatory methods (QPMs) and approaches for agricultural monitoring...

Sharing and Co-generating Knowledges: Reflections on Experiences with PRA and CLTS

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The evolution and spread of PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal or Participatory Reflection and Action) and CLTS (Community‐Led Total...

Norms, Knowledge and Usage

Published by: IDS

The partial or total non-use of toilets, with some or all in a household defecating in the open, is a growing concern. Although all households may have a toilet, communities cannot remain open defecation free unless they are always used by everyone. This is not just an issue of maintenance and accessibility but also of social norms, mind-sets, and cultural preferences. The problem is widespread but most evident in India.

Sustainability and CLTS: taking stock

Published by: IDS

Sustainability is without doubt one of the most burning subject matters that subsumes many of the issues seen in Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and wider Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practice. This issue of CLTS Frontiers series identifes priority areas for learning

Reframing Undernutrition: Faecally-Transmitted Infections and the 5 As

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The dominant nutrition discourse concerns access to adequate food and its quality. It now includes food security, food rights and justice, governance and agriculture.