Video places
Latin America
Practical Action Latin America provides practical and productive solutions for low income rural and urban populations. Our work in Agroprocessing, Disaster Prevention, Energy and Irrigation provides infrastructure development, information, technical advice, training and capacity building. This is just a small selection of our videos from Latin America. For a full selection of Spanish-language videos, please visit www.solucionespracticas.org.pe/videos_menu.php
South Asia
Working together with communities, Practical Action South Asia aims to build the technical skills of poor people in the region enabling them to improve the quality of their lives and that of future generations. Technologies can be useful only when they are designed to suit the social, economic, political and geographical realities of particular communities.Practical Action South Asia


Practical Action Bangladesh has evolved over time to meet the challenges of poverty, inequality and vulnerability. Deeply committed to helping the poor in Bangladesh, its work on appropriate technology as a means to improve poor people's livelihoods, has been flexible and responsive to local conditions and needs.
Practical Action East Africa works towards fulfilling its mission in Eastern Africa - Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania - by increasing the choices of technologies and approaches accessible to the marginalized groups through establishing a broad range of highly regarded project work.
Practical Action Nepal works to improve the livelihoods of the poor and disadvantaged by implementing sustainable development. We aim to achieve this by building technical skills and undertaking the research, application and dissemination of appropriate technologies.
Practical Action Southern Africa is the regional office of the Group with active projects in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia. Twenty years of working in the region has allowed us to build an understanding of the development approaches that work best in the region and this has seen us supporting small producers in a wide range of technologies ranging from food production to manufacturing.
The work undertaken by Practical Action Sudan is aimed at improving the livelihoods of poor communities in selected areas of the country through building the capacity of small-scale producers and their institutions. Practical Action Sudan is currently operating in three geographical areas: eastern Sudan in Kassala and Gedarif States, western Sudan in North Darfur State, and Blue Nile State.
Practical Action's head office in the UK provides assistance to all other regional and country offices in the areas of finance, capacity building, technical support and marketing, helping local offices to focus on the main objectives of poverty alleviation.