Technical Enquiry Service

Practical Action's Technical Enquiry Service supplies, free of charge, technical and developmental information to our target group which includes grassroots development workers, community-based organisations, NGOs and other agencies using appropriate technologies to implement sustainable development.

Please note: Although the Technical Enquiry Service is free, it is not designed for commercial organisations, students, academic institutions and organisations working in the European Community, North America or other developed nations. However, we are willing to undertake research work but it is necessary to charge for this service.

About the Technical Enquiry Service

Through Practical Action's international network of enquiry services, the Technical Enquiry Service is able to call on the expertise of several hundred professionals in technical, economic, and sociological disciplines to help formulate the answers to enquiries - currently we receive and answer approximately 1200-1500 enquiries a year.

The Technical Enquiry Service always tries to supply information of direct relevance to the individual enquirer's circumstances and will take into account the non-technical factors that might have a bearing on the use of the technology.

This can only be done, however, if full details of the particular technology application are given - after all, our answer can only be as good as your question, so please ensure you fill in all the relevant fields on the enquiry form as fully as possible.

Enquiries can also be made through any of Practical Action's offices at the following addresses: