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Practical Action
www.practicalaction.org
Practical Action's main site, featuring information on our projects, programmes and technologies, with sub-sites for each of our regional and country offices around the world.
Development Bookshop
www.developmentbookshop.com
Europe's leading online bookshop for international development and technology, Development Bookshop Online from Practical Action Publishing offers an unbiased, wise and up-to-date selection of key development-related titles from around the world from different publishers, and contains many seminal texts on development issues. It also offer a full mail-order service worldwide and a cataloguewhich has been specifically set up to make development books widely available across the globe.
Practical Action Latin America
www.solucionespracticas.org
Practical Action Latin America has its own Spanish-language site which provides detailed information on Practical Action's work in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Practical Presents
www.practicalpresents.org
Socks, gadgets and chocolates are all lovely presents, but wouldn’t you like your gift to mean more? Send a Practical Present today and you’ll help transform the lives of people facing desperate poverty around the world.
Janathakshan
www.janathakshan.net
The Janathakshan web portal shares practical answers to development issues. Janathakshan is a project site of Practical Action's South Asia programme based in Sri Lanka, and features technical resources in English, Tamil and Sinhala.
GATS & Reforms
www.janathakshan.org/gats_reforms/
A website from Practical Action South Asia, addressing service sector liberalization from a developmental perspective through informative policy advocacy.
InfoDes
www.infodes.org.pe
An Practical Action project on Information Systems for Rural Development, exploring how ITCs can help to reduce the isolation and to improve the communication between urban and rural areas. (Spanish language) Including Chilala (radiodifusoras rurales), Conectando los Andes (proyecto de telefonia rural) and Telecentro Infodes (Información para el desarrollo).
ELLA - Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
ella.practicalaction.org
Latin America is a rich source of knowledge about development policies and practices that work, and those that don’t. But geography, cultural context, language and unfamiliarity all mean that accessing and using that knowledge can be difficult. ELLA is a programme that will open up access to evidence-based development knowledge from Latin America – for development researchers, practitioners and policy makers across Latin America, Africa, Asia and the international development community.
Bosques del Chinchipe
www.solucionespracticas.org.pe/bosques
Working with FACES (Ecuador), Caritas Jaén and Oikos (Portugal), this project will generate a participative process for the formulation of a model of sustainable management of forests in the river basin of the Chinchipe in the border between Peru and Ecuador.
Nanotechnology in Peru
www.nanotecnologia.com.pe
Nanotecnologia holds information of public interest on Practical Action Latin America's studies and projects on nanotechnology, plus events and technical enquiries.
Infoláctea
www.infolactea.com
Infoláctea provides technical information for dairy farmers in Peru. It also facilitates the integration of supply and demand information among small producers, entrepreneurs, suppliers of machinery and equipment, customers and public and private organizations operating in this sector.
InfoCafés
www.infocafes.com
This website contains specialised information on coffee and cacao sectors: reports, technical sheets, scientific articles, presentations, extended essays, theses, videos, etc.
San Martin
www.solucionespracticas.org.pe/sanmartin
We have worked in the San Martín region for over two decades. Our local office, in the city of Tarapoto, provides direct communication with all regional development and local capacity agencies and actors, to coordinate sustainable development in the region.
Proyecto Biodiésel
www.solucionespracticas.org.pe/biodiesel
Practical Action Latin America and UNALM are investigating possible scenarios for the production and use of biodiésel in Peru.
CEDECAP
www.cedecap.org.pe
CEDECAP - Centre of Demonstration and Qualification in Appropriate Technologies - aims to spread renewable energies as an alternative for development in rural areas, developing the capacities of technicians, professionals, specialists and users of existing isolated power systems at local , national and international levels.
Glowstar Lantern
practicalactionconsulting.org/glowstar
The Glowstar Solar Lantern has been developed by Practical Action Consulting as a low-cost alternative to a Solar Home System and is intended to allow rural African families to climb the first step on the "energy ladder".
T4SL Technology for Sustainable Livelihoods
practicalaction.org/t4sl
The Sustainable Livelihoods approach is a holistic, people-centred approach to tackling poverty. This archived site is a showcase for Practical Action responses to Sustainable Livelihoods and is intended as a stimulus for other organisations to share their experience.
African Voices in Europe
practicalaction.org/africanvoices
The African Voices in Europe project exposes the failures of EC aid to reach farmers and livestock keepers across Africa, and explores how EC aid could be more effectively targeted to achieve its objective of poverty reduction.
Practical Action schools resources
www.practicalaction.org/schools
Practical Action's Education unit produce a range of exciting teaching resources with a global learning element to support the teaching of renewable energy, climate change and sustainability.
Climate Choices - Children's Voices
www.climatechoices.org.uk
An interactive website for teachers at Key Stage 2. The project is aimed at children aged 9-11 (years 5 and 6) and shows how taking simple steps can help reduce climate change.
Practical Action student website
www.practicalaction.org/students
An chance to find out more about what Practical Action does and how students can support us. Here you can find out about all our opportunities or if you have your own ideas get in touch and let us know.
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