A decade ago, a significant trend in using and supporting open practices emerged in international development.
While cities often act as the engines of economic growth for developing countries, they are also frequently the site of growing violence, poverty, and inequality.
This book brings together the experiences and lessons learned from five civil society organizations (CSOs) whose work is related to the health of indigenous women in Mexico.
Better knowledge means better results. And participatory evaluation helps to mobilize local knowledge, together with outside expertise, to make development interventions more effective.
The conquest of the Americas was the first step on the path to globalization. Today, 500 years later, we are rapidly approaching the prophecied global village and, consequently, natural and cultural uniformity.
Many cities in Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a water crisis as sources become exhausted or degraded.
With the fertilizer bean, cowardly land becomes brave.
— Teodoro Reyes, La Danta, Honduras
In the Middle East and North Africa, water is rapidly becoming the key development issue.
For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas.
Building Businesses with Small Producers presents the findings and a comparative analysis of seven case studies that challenge current beliefs about good practice in the provision of business development services (BDS) to small and micro en