Practical Action Sudan publications

Sharing Newsletter

SHARING, the newsletter of Practical Action Sudan, features news and reports on our work.

Issue 14, January 2008 Issue 14 features the following reports: Sam Turuk water pond a successful response to pastoralists rights The need for access to shelter Promoting the concept of Community forest - the case of Majdoub village community forest Creativity and flexibility: key factors to success - an experience of development interventions in a complex emergency situation (Re-establishing food self-resilience among drought-affected populations of North Darfur project) The Ridge Maker - a suitable device for cheap and fast terraces construction The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. More about PDF files. Download SHARING – issue 14, January 2008 (PDF, 478k) or read web pages above.

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Issue 13, June 2007
This issue features the following reports:

• The Baobab - tree of life
• Rebuilding of rural North Darfur
• Creativity and flexibility: key factors to success
  An experience of development intervention in a complex emergency situation
• Promoting a culture of peace through art
• Traditional women singers Hakamat support peace building in Darfur

The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue 13, June 2007 (PDF, 805k)

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Issue 12, Feburary 2006
This issue features the following reports:

• Re-branding
• Peace building through indigenous art
• Prolinnova
• How can international donors funds be accessible to local NGOs?
• Developing pro-poor agricultural markets
• Crops diversity in North Darfur

The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. NB: this is a very large file – it will take around half an hour to download using a 56K modem, but longer on slower connections. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue 12, Feburary 2006 (PDF, 4Mb)

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Issue 11, September 2005
This issue reports on the challenges faced by internally displaced people:

• Shelter in Darfur: the need and the challenges
• Rehabilitation and integration of the internally displaced people in Darfur
• Displacement issues: lessons from eastern Sudan
• The effect of Grain Milling on the quality and quantity of the IDP Camps

The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. NB: this is a very large file – it will take around half an hour to download using a 56K modem, but longer on slower connections. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue 11, September 2005 ~ 9Mb

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Issue ten, June 2005
This issue reports on ITDGPractical Action Sudan's projects:

• Building the local capacity for the manufacturing of agricultural tools in North Darfur
• The way to peace in Darfur: wadi irrigation
• Can the use of improved wood burning stoves protect women from violence against them?
• Women vendors participate in Khartoum International Fair
• Save the Baobab

The newsletter is also available to download as a PDF file. It will take around four minutes to download using a 56K modem, but longer on slower connections. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue 10, June 2005 ~ 1.3Mb

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Issue nine, January 2005
This issue looks back at ITDGPractical Action Sudan's long-term projects and their progress over the past years:

• Sustainability in the urban environment
• Access to water in informal settlements
• Improving urban livelihoods
• Indoor smoke pollution reduction methods
• The impact of women's development associations

The newsletter is also available to download as a PDF file. It will take around two minutes to download using a 56K modem, but longer on slower connections. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue 9, January 2005 ~ 579K

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Issue seven, July 2004 reports on the situation in Northern Darfur, and ITDG's response. Reports from this issue can be found in our pages on Darfur , or the issue can be downloaded as a PDF.

• SHARING – issue 7, July 2004 ~ 594K

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Issue six, April 2004.
Last year, ITDGPractical Action introduced a new worldwide strategy to strengthen its fight against poverty. The new strategy has four main aims: reducing vulnerability, making markets work, improving access to services, and responding to new technologies. One year on, ITDGPractical Action Sudan is directing its programmes to implement the strategy. Issue six of Sharing looks at two of the four aims, and the ways in which ITDGPractical Action is working to achieve them.

• Reducing vulnerability: Strong women, strong communities
• Blacksmiths forge new skills
• Challenging climate change: Terracing technology in Darfur

The newsletter is also available to download as a PDF file. It will take around a minute and a half to download using a 56K modem, but longer on slower connections. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue six, April 2004 ~ 358K

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Issue four, October 2003
After floods in Kassala devastated the town in July and August, this issue of Sharing looks at the extremities of Sudan’s hard climate. The ongoing struggle with water is a critical issue – the lack of it in the north and west and the sudden excess in the east and south.

For ITDGPractical Action staff in Kassala the reality hit home. Their personal accounts of the flood highlight the immediate danger and the long-term damage of flash flooding. At the same time, staff in Darfur are working steadily to conserve water under the constant threat of drought.

• El Gash river bursts its banks
• Kassala floods: personal accounts
• The vicious circle of drought in North Dafur
• Turra Water Dam
• New water turbine reflects local needs

The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. It will take around a minute and a half to download using a 56K modem, but longer on slower connections. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue four, October 2003 ~ 408K

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Issue three published in July 2003 , highlights the benefits of teamwork, advocacy, communication and capacity building, and includes:

• Dafur famers need to diversify – releasing the potential of Karkadeh
• Kassala smoke and health project tackles indoor air pollution
• Improving village water stores – using hafirs to catch rainwater
• Building small businesses in Kassala
• Capacity building in South Kordofan

The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. It will take around a minute and a half to download using a 56K modem. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue three, July 2003 ~ 412K

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Issue two, published in April 2003 , focuses on ITDGPractical Action's North Darfur Food Security Programme, and includes:

• Earthenware pots and food conservation
• Building productivity for long-term security
• Millet supplies dwindling in Dafur
• Improving grain storage
• Local women vendors reach international marketplace
• Women's Development Associations: background
• Communication through theatre in Kassala

The newsletter is available to download as a PDF file. It will take around a minute and a half to download using a 56K modem. More about PDF files.

• SHARING – issue two, April 2003 ~ 404K

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Building Small-Scale Water Harvesting Dams
The experience of ITDG North Darfur State, Western Sudan by Mohamed Majzoub Fidiel
The manual reflects Practical Action (formerly ITDG) experiences, specifically in the building of dams, and demonstrates the quick impact that dams can make on people livelihoods.

• download Building Small-Scale Water Harvesting Dams (PDF, 6.3Mb)

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Annual Report

Practical Action Sudan's annual report for 2007-2008 is available to download as a PDF file, in English or Arabic.

• Practical Action Sudan annual highlights 2007-8 (English) PDF, 1.9Mb
• Practical Action Sudan annual highlights 2007-8 (Arabic) PDF, 2Mb

Please note that these are large files and will take around eight minutes to download using a 56K modem. To read it you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader. More about PDF files.

Key elements of this report, including the director's report and financial summary, are also available to read as web pages: Practical Action Sudan annual highlights.

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Other publications

The following booklets have been printed in Arabic:

1. Dehydration of fruit and vegetables
2. Jam and juice making
3. Production of diary products
4. Making of sweets and candy
5. The use and maintenance of donkey-drawn plough.

The Human Situation in Northern Darfur A ground-based survey by Practical Action undertaken in February and March 2004 showed systematic destruction of people’s possessions and food stocks. Around a million people were displaced and 60% of the villages had been destroyed or abandoned. This report is retained here for reference purposes, but does not describe the current situation in Darfur. Download the report: The Human Situation in Northern Dafur ~ 322k

Practical Action Sudan, Reg Charity No. Sudan 13787