Urban poverty
- Home composting With better management of waste, households can produce rich compost that can be used on gardens ...
- Urban waste management In many cities in Africa and other developing countries waste is an important and flexible source...
- Practical solutions to urban poverty Technologies can help solve the problems people face in poor urban communities.
There is no easy solution to urban poverty. However, Practical Action’s experience in shelter and infrastructure development, commitment to working together with communities, and success in demonstrating to governments and authorities how their decisions impact on the lives of the poorest people have combined to produce a programme of work that is reaping results.
Practical Action is working with communities across Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal helping families find solutions to the problems arising from the environment in which they live.
Blog listing
Proud to be ODF
If you’re squeamish about poo, look away now! Open defecation is not something people in the deve...
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Providing better health services for waste workers
Large numbers of people in the developing world rely on other people’s waste to make a living. I...
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Ecological sanitation for sustainable sanitation
2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to improved sanitation facilities. Most of the...
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