Programmes and themes
Practical Action Southern Africa
Practical Action in Southern Africa works with communities helping them choose and use appropriate technologies to improve their lives for today and generations to come.
We current work in the following programme themes:
Completed projects
We have a long history of project work in Southern Africa. Here is a selection of recent key projects.
Read moreImproving access to infrastructure services
Our work aims to improve the access of poor women and men to locally-managed services, by developing and disseminating technologies for water, energy, housing and waste management.
Read moreMaking markets work for the poor
Practical Action Southern Africa seeks to work with small-scale and marginalised producers to enable them to use technologies to build secure livelihoodsthrough improved systems of production, processing and marketing.
Read moreReducing vulnerability
Practical Action's work on reducing vulnerbility in Southern Africa centres around strengthening the ability of poor people to use technology to cope with threats from natural disasters, environmental degradation and civil conflict.
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