The Pillars process is an approach for producing written information, in local languages, that is useful to local people. By doing this it aims to help community groups to manage the changes that they face and to improve their livelihood options.
Tools and guides
Guidance for organisations wanting to implement the Pillars process
Workshop in north Uganda with PAG (Pentecostal Assemblies of God) and other Christian organisations and churches working in the refugee camps. Photo: Stephen German/Tearfund
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by Nyomi Graef and Ross James. We were involved in a translation project to provide training materials for health workers for use in radio programmes. Our task was to prepare the original English materials for translation by making them easier to read and understand.
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‘Community-led total sanitation’ was pioneered in Bangladesh by Kamal Kar (a development consultant from India) and the Village Education Resource Centre while they were evaluating an NGO’s traditional subsidised sanitation programme. They wanted to convince the NGO to stop subsidising toilet construction because subsidies in the past had not led to community ownership and toilet usage. Instead, they suggested that the NGO should encourage people to help themselves. They developed an approach ...
Tools and guides
A guide and toolkit for doing research and evaluation in an ethical way
Articles
by Nyomi Graef and Ross James. We were involved in a translation project to provide training materials for health workers for use in radio programmes. Our task was to prepare the original English materials for translation by making them easier to read and understand.
Articles
‘Community-led total sanitation’ was pioneered in Bangladesh by Kamal Kar (a development consultant from India) and the Village Education Resource Centre while they were evaluating an NGO’s traditional subsidised sanitation programme. They wanted to convince the NGO to stop subsidising toilet construction because subsidies in the past had not led to community ownership and toilet usage. Instead, they suggested that the NGO should encourage people to help themselves. They developed an approach ...
Tools and guides
A guide and toolkit for doing research and evaluation in an ethical way
Articles
by Nyomi Graef and Ross James. We were involved in a translation project to provide training materials for health workers for use in radio programmes. Our task was to prepare the original English materials for translation by making them easier to read and understand.
Articles
‘Community-led total sanitation’ was pioneered in Bangladesh by Kamal Kar (a development consultant from India) and the Village Education Resource Centre while they were evaluating an NGO’s traditional subsidised sanitation programme. They wanted to convince the NGO to stop subsidising toilet construction because subsidies in the past had not led to community ownership and toilet usage. Instead, they suggested that the NGO should encourage people to help themselves. They developed an approach ...
Tools and guides
A guide and toolkit for doing research and evaluation in an ethical way