This newsletter issue discusses how gender issues can be incorporated in participatory rural appraisal (PRA). Read more...
This article charts the progress of a two-year project, carried out by the ODA-funded Environmental Health Programme at the London School of Hygiene... Read more...
This article reports on the findings of the first field-trial to focus on factors determining a group of Kenyan villagers' choice of water source... Read more...
Using data from a sample of 69 households in Ukunda village, Kenya, the traditional approach to the modeling of water demand for villages in... Read more...
Fifty-seven mothers in Indonesia were involved in a face-to-face health education which encouraged hand-washing with soap. The intervention spanned 4... Read more...
This study assessed the involvement of women in the Mirzapur handpump project in Bangladesh, over a four-year period (1984-1987). Read more...
The effect of an agricultural technical change on intra-household welfare is discussed. Existing theories suggest that the distribution of resources... Read more...
Some factors contributing to the low standard of living of rural women in Africa are discussed and the ineffectiveness of government programmes to... Read more...
One hundred and eight rural mothers were interviewed about childhood diarrhoea. Read more...
Water shortage was a major reason why handwashing was not practised in a highland village in Guatemala. A water-saving device, the plastic 'tippy tap... Read more...
This article, based on a paper delivered in India at a 1994 seminar on The Role of Women in Water Management, begins with the point that women's... Read more...