One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This volume is designed to help an organisation develop a capacity for reflection by clarifying its mission, analysing what makes an institution reflective, and then restructuring accordingly.
One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This booklet describes a set of questions about people's relations with each other and the ecosystem. Its main purpose is to support self assessment, but it is also useful as an introduction to identifying changes in ecosystem and human wellbeing in system assessment.
One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. PRAM is a method to help planners, field workers and researchers reflect on a system from an early stage and thereby assist in identifying priority areas for action and research. PRAM can be used to assess any region, from a village to a continent.
This book considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that community-based participatory research and 'transfer of technology' are not rival models of development but complementary components in a sigle process of effective aid.