Infrastructure
- Building capacity Poor people lack access to essential services such as water, sanitation, and energy.
- Participatory planning Urban areas usually lack clean water, basic sanitation and waste collection and are a low priorit...
- Urban infrastructure The world is becoming increasingly urban, and the numbers living in urban slums are growing.
Poor people are often excluded from essential services such as water, sanitation, energy, education and health – as well as lacking adequate shelter.
Locally-managed, sustainable and decentralised services offer low-income communities the best hope of satisfying their need for affordable water, sanitation, housing and energy.
Our solutions
Technologies and approaches
Practical Action work with the following technologies and approaches to supply infrastructure services:
Access to infrastructure services blogs
Energy access: Old challenges – new rhetoric?
When the UN announced its target 'Energy for All by 2030', I thought the opportunity for billions...
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Sustainable energy - a great conversation
Today Practical Action, together with One and Christian Aid, organised what's called a “civil soc...
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Energy lies at the heart - Clean Energy Ministerial
I’ve just put up a blog railing at poor communicators - now my team have come back to me and sa...
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