Stories of change
Stories of Change aims to give readers and users/practitioners an opportunity to tell others about how your project went, what the successes and failures were and why. It is an area where you can highlight the information sources you found most useful or the organisations that you worked with.
This will help other practitioners working in the area to learn through the lessons learned, providing useful information to be shared in different contexts when appropriate.
Tell us where you worked, who was involved, who benefited, what was the most rewarding and challenging elements of the work and how you overcame these difficulties. What lessons would you want to pass onto others? Click here to Share your experience.
Below are some of the stories we have received.
General Resources
Bicycle Trailers in Zambia
This is a comprehensive case study in Zambia that used Practical Action's Bicycle Trailer Technical Brief.
Building Toilets in Nepal
Raising awareness of health and hygiene through the use of a video produced by Ankhi Jhyal and building toilets.
Cook Electric: The Ghandruk Experience
This case study shows how micro-hydro can be used to provide electricity for cooking in Nepal.
Evaporative Cooling in Gambia
This story of change explains the introduction of the pot in pot cooler in Gambia.
Evaporative Cooling in India
A case study from Indicorp describing the introduction of a domestic cooler.
Food Processing in Parcona, Peru
A few handbooks on making jams, yoghurt and fruit nectars were used help the Women's Association of Parcona develop...
Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks in Kenya
Through reading Andrew Okello of Kariobangi Light Industries in Nairobi has discovered a wealth of technologies and...
Leasehold Farmers Group Influences Locals
Ram Lal Caudhary describes how he increased his range of crops and help him increase his income from his farm.
Mud Stoves in Kenya
In this initiative, two technologies are combined: the energy saving jiko stove and smoke hood.
Nashetu-E-Maa; Building in Partnership with the Maasai
This is the story of work by Practical Action on imporoving the housing of Maasai after permanent settlement.
Rainwater Harvesting in Uganda
The basic goal of the DRIP Project is to promote a cheap and effective way of harvesting rainwater as a means of...
Ropeways - Gravity Goods Ropeway
This story shows the whole community contributed in the construction one a ropeway in Nepal.
Solar Dryers in Kenya
Description of technology transfer for the Laikipia Mjengo Housing Cooperative Society.
Solar Drying in Peru
Bruno Caracchini has followed up on his idea of producing and marketing dehydrated fruit. His business is in the...
Success story: Vegetables Production - সব্জি চাষে সাফল্য
A story of vegetable production in Bangladesh.
The Kamayoc School
This case study recounts an experience of training farmer extensionists to implement farmer to farmer training.
The Story of Shambob
Sustainable livelihoods from small-scale brick production in Sudan.
















