This document contains the presentation by A. A. Nambi, M.S.

This Thematic Overview Paper attempts to search for pro-poor financing models that can facilitate the urban poor’s access to complete sanitation services. It offers a recommendation for mixing financing mechanisms to meet the urban poor’s needs, and makes a plea for developing poor-specific and full-cycle specific plans for sanitation.

This paper discusses ideas and methodologies on reducing urban poverty, paying particular attention to the changes that can be triggered by the practice of community savings.

This paper discusses ideas and methodologies on reducing urban poverty, paying particular attention to the changes that can be triggered by the practice of community savings.

This training manual is intended to help to WaterAid in Nepal’s partners and stakeholders train community leaders in developing integrated plans for managing water resource at community level.

This document provides people’s insights on why some sanitation interventions successes and others fail. The study showed that awareness among the people about the importance of sanitation and hygiene for better health was higher than expected.

This publication highlights the issues related to Community-managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR). It contains articles contributed by disaster risk reduction practitioners from different agencies and reflects a unique aspect of multi-stakeholder perspective. It also highlights how to enhance actions at local levels with local community.

The promise of the FRA remains largely unfulfilled, says a committee set up by the Ministries of Environment and Forests and Tribal Affairs.
IT seems hard for a government used to controlling most of India's common lands to let go of them.

Under the present agricultural scenario prevailing at global and domestic levels for achieving sustainable income, farmers need to re-orient themselves from mere producers to agri-businessmen. Rather than being helpless individual farmers, if they unite and join hands as a group in the form of 'Community based organisation' (CBO), they can reap many benefits. Dr. V. Rajagopal and C. V. Sairam attempted to highlight the distinct advantages of CBO for the farming community with case studies of a project undertaken in the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute Kasaragod for three years.

The purpose of this handbook is to help civil society and those working on water and sanitation issues to adopt a human rights-based approach to advocacy, so that they can improve water and sanitation service regulation and provision at international, national and local levels.

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