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
Dying for a drink in Turkana, Kenya
I’m writing from Practical Action’s office in Lodwar, Turkana having returned from an intense thr...
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Energy: out of sight and out of mind?
Too often people in developed countries like the UK who have access to energy all the time don't ...
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Smoke - the killer in the kitchen
How many people do you think die each year from household air pollution – basically, killer kitch...
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