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	Dams and Development Project
		ITDG is an international non-governmental organisation which demonstrates and advocates the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.
		ITDG is also involved in practical work on water resources for development, particularly through long-established programmes on the management of irrigation in Peru.
		ITDG would be willing to participate in any initiatives to support or to monitor the adoption of the proposals presented by the Commission in its report.
	www.unep.org /dams/documents/default.asp?documentid=431 (922 words)

	WCD Forum - Intermediate Technology Development Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ITDG is an international non-governmental organisation which demonstrates and advocates the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.
		ITDG is also involved in practical work on water resources for development, particularly through long-established programmes on the management of irrigation in Peru.
		ITDG would be willing to participate in any initiatives to support or to monitor the adoption of the proposals presented by the Commission in its report.
	www.dams.org /commission/forum/f3_itdg.htm (945 words)

	intermediate technology - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about intermediate technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The simple wind pump is an example of intermediate technology if it utilizes local materials and traditional design.
		Application of machines and other technologies, based on inventions and designs developed in the developed world, but utilizing materials, assembly, and maintenance methods found in less developed regions.
		Intermediate technologies aim to allow developing countries to benefit from new techniques and inventions of the ‘First World’, without the burdens of costly maintenance and supply of fuels and spare parts that in the developing world would represent an enormous and probably uneconomic overhead.
	www.encyclopedia.farlex.com /intermediate+technology (167 words)

	Intermediate Technology Development Group - ITDG: Centre de recherches pour le développement international
		ITDG — the Intermediate Technology Development Group — aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.With our commitment to poverty reduction, environmental conservation and technology choice we think ITDG is uniquely placed to contribute to a world free of poverty.
		ITDG's Vision A world free of poverty and injustice in which technology is used to the benefit of all.
		ITDG's Mission ITDG aims to eradicate poverty in developing countries through the development and use of technology, by demonstrating results, sharing knowledge and influencing others.
	www.idrc.ca /pure/ev-68267-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (156 words)

	RIA Model to Model Dialogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) is an international development agency with regional offices in Bangladesh, Nepal, Peru, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Britain and Kenya.
		The groups are then trained in technical skills such as seed selection, pest management and packaging, and encouraged to set rules and to define the roles and responsibilities of their members.
		Stores for the other two groups are extra rooms on residential houses of their members with the fifth group using an auxiliary room on a local temple.
	www.worldhungeryear.org /comm_conn/display_seeds.asp?seeds_ndx=13 (1409 words)

	Practical Action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Practical Action is a development charity registered in the United Kingdom which works directly in four regions of the developing world – Latin America, East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia, with particular concentration on Peru, Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
		He argued that there should be a shift in emphasis towards intermediate technologies based on the needs and skills possessed by the people of developing countries.
		Encouraged by the response, Schumacher and a few of his associates decided to create an 'advisory centre' to promote the use of efficient labour-intensive techniques and in 1966 the Intermediate Technology Development Group was born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intermediate_Technology_Development_Group (330 words)

	Kubatana - Archive - Intermediate Technology Development Group Southern Africa sets its sight on the region
		ITDG Southern Africa, formerly ITDG Zimbabwe before undertaking the Regional Programme, was established in Zimbabwe in 1989 and is part of an international non-governmental organisation with offices in Kenya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Peru, Nepal, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom.
		Due to the popularity of these interventions with the beneficiaries, the group decided that the local office be tasked with the responsibility of developing a programme of work for the Southern Africa region.
		ITDG is also involved in a World Bank funded project in which it has to come up with a national strategy for Mozambique for Small Scale Decentralised Energy Supply Systems.
	www.kubatana.net /html/archive/rurdev/010913itdg.asp?sector=RURDEV (1209 words)

	Community Initiatives in Livestock Improvement: The Case of Kathekani, Kenya - Joyce Njoki Njoro
		ITDG is an international development agency working with marginalized communities in seven developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop and adopt appropriate technologies to enhance their skills and economic status.
		Its mission statement is to build the skills of poor people in developing countries enabling them to improve the quality of their lives and those of future generations.
		Each group member is allocated the Galla buck to utilize and mate with the rest of the herd for one month.
	www.fao.org /docrep/006/Y3970E/y3970e07.htm (3649 words)

	Duryog Nivaran
		As part of an on-going research on participatory development, a group of researchers and practitioners of development took a fresh look at the notion of participatory development at a workshop organized by Duryog Nivaran in November 1995.
		A focus on and an analysis of the gender relations and social norms of different societies and communities is essential for the understanding of survival mechanisms and the development of viable disaster management and disaster mitigation processes.
		In recent years researchers and development agencies have begun to investigate why certain groups of people are more vulnerable to disasters than others, but relatively little work has been done on vulnerability in South Asia where more than half the world's disaster victims live.
	www.duryognivaran.org /publications.php (2451 words)

	ITDG - Practical Answers to Poverty / Cop V / Abc Research
		The need to develop practical strategies for supporting farming communities inconserving and using agricultural biodiversity sustainably is now widely recognised as important to ensuring food and livelihood security, especially in marginal areas.
		Using PRA, focus groups, and key informants at critical points in the annual agricultural cycle, strategies used in case study areas to conserve and utilize agricultural biodiversity sustainably, and threats to these strategies will be identified.
		ITDG believes that it is essential to sustain agricultural biodiversity and productive agro-ecosystems in order to achieve food and livelihood security for the majority.
	www.ukabc.org /itdg/copv/abc.html (1972 words)

	Community Development Resources
		Schumacher was a founder of the Intermediate Technology Development Group.
		To that end he is a leading advocate of "appropriate technology" as a partial answer to global problems of food and energy shortages, alienation, and poverty.
		In the developing countries, designed particularly to suit agricultural conditions that are different from those in the industrialized countries, this technology should be superior to the primitive forms of the past.
	www.villageearth.org /pages/AT_Library/index.htm (567 words)

	Practical Action - About us
		We think it is. In an increasingly divided and fragile world, Practical Action aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.
		Practical Action was founded in 1966, as ITDG (the Intermediate Technology Development Group), by the radical economist Dr EF Schumacher to prove that his philosophy of ‘Small is Beautiful’ could bring real and sustainable improvements to people’s lives.
		Technology Challenging Poverty explains our vision and mission, and describes how we approach poverty reduction through sustainable solutions and practical answers.
	www.itdg.org /?id=about_us (623 words)

	BOND
		ITDG have called the report 'old thinking on new technologies', when what is required is 'new thinking about all technologies of use to poor people'.
		Their greatest need is for 'incremental' research, development and adaptation of technology in ways which build on the best of their knowledge, and which take full account of their livelihood strategies.
		ITDG is proposing to hold a seminar event in London on 20 September 2001 to analyse key aspects of the HDR 2001.
	www.bond.org.uk /networker/2001/august01/advocacy.html (1362 words)

	Intermediate Technology Development Group
		summary ITDG (Intermediate Technology Development Group) aims to build the technical skills of poor people in developing countries, enabling them to improve the quality of their lives and that of future generations.
		In 2003 Trade plus Aid® donated £26,000 to fund ITDG projects in the village of Abu Digaise, in Northern Darfur, one of the poorest states in Sudan with 90% of the population living below the poverty line.
		Trade plus Aid's donation has enabled ITDG to release three times more support from the EU to do similar work in neighbouring villages in Darfur making a total of £104,000.
	www.tradeplusaid.com /projects/p_itdg.html (266 words)

	Guardian \| Practical Action
		In it he pointed out the inadequacies of conventional aid policies based, as they were then, on the transfer of modern, capital-intensive and large-scale technologies to developing countries which did not have the financial resources, technical skills or mass markets to accommodate them.
		He argued that there should be a shift in emphasis towards 'intermediate technologies' based on the needs and skills possessed by the people of developing countries.
		In 1969 Intermediate Technology Consultants was founded as a company to provide services to organisations such as the ODA, the World Bank, etc, on appropriate technology.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329648263-123104,00.html (762 words)

	Technology Development and Technology Transfer
		Research and technology development, technological innovation, and technology transfer and licensing are often central to the competitiveness of an enterprise.This page lists and rates electronic resources related to innovation and technology transfer including the issue of appropriate technologies.
		Intermediate Technology (IT) is an international development agency and British-registered charity which works with rural communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
		Its aim is to enable poorpeople in the South to develop and use skills and technologies which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the sustainable development of their communities.
	www.enterweb.org /techlogy.htm (653 words)

	TVE's Earth Report
		Technology has always played an important role in the environment and this week Hands On singles out some of the most inspiring innovations in tidal, solar and passive energy.
		With a little training from the Intermediate Technology Group, inaccessible river villages like El Paraiso are one step away from battery self-sufficiency.
		Now solar-powered lanterns, developed by the Intermediate Technology Development Group, are bringing a little sunshine into the long dark evenings.
	www.tve.org /earthreport/archive/03Sep2000.html (903 words)

	Technology the key to banishing poverty - 10 July 2001 - New Scientist
		Progress on technology to cut greenhouse-gas emissions is "faster than anticipated", say UN experts
		In a world where two billion people live in homes that do not have light bulbs, technology holds the key to banishing poverty, says the United Nations in a major report published on Tuesday.
		Developing countries should also make better use of intellectual property laws that entitle them to vital medicines, just as South Africa did recently with AIDS drugs.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn991 (553 words)

	Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program
		Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) is an NGO founded by the late Dr. E.
		ITDG’s vision is “A world free of poverty and injustice in which technology is used to the benefit of all.” ITDG aims to help eradicate poverty in developing countries through the development and use of technology by demonstrating results, sharing knowledge and influencing others.
		Another main challenge in my work is to make people understand the importance of environmental management in the poverty reduction efforts in development, and to ensure that envoronment is not only understood as trees and elephants, but something that is important for people's livelihoods.
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /BeahrsELP/Allbios/2003bios.html (610 words)

	Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
		You couldnât blame us, it was the end of the dot com bubble, new wireless technologies were emerging and people were hoping to ride the next big thing before the venture capital dried up.
		The Intermediate Technology Development Group is a British charity that is concerned with the promotion of intermediate or appropriate technology.
		They publish books about and do projects with technologies that are low cost, simple to repair, and easy to produce that allow people in rural areas to solve their development problems using local resources.
	www.aidg.org /component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,18 (520 words)

	ETC Group - Take Action
		Terminator technology was developed by the multinational seed/agrochemical industry and the United States government to prevent farmers from saving and re-planting harvested seed.
		Two upcoming meetings of the CBD where Terminator is on the agenda - the Working Group on Article 8 (j) in Granada, Spain January 23-27 and the 8th Conference of the Parties to the CBD in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil March 20-31 2006 - offer important opportunities to strengthen the moratorium.
		The Ban Terminator Campaign seeks to promote government bans on Terminator technology at the national and international levels, and supports the efforts of civil society, farmers, Indigenous peoples and social movements to campaign against it.
	www.etcgroup.org /en/take_action (386 words)

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		The main objective of the institute is to provide contributions to energy policy decisions and technology assessment with the help of systems engineering approaches developed for energy, economic and environmental analysis.
		ESD was formed in 1989 by a group of energy experts with many years experience in sustainable energy use in developing countries.
		Working with governments, businesses, and individuals in developed and developing countries, ESD's approach facilitates the use of energy appropriately and sustainably, taking account of issues such as national, regional and local development, employment generation, cultural integrity, biodiversity and environmental degradation.
	cdmsusac.energyprojects.net /viewcategory.asp?ID=1 (471 words)

	The Upesi Project \| NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise
		Activity Description: The Upesi Project, supported by the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), was initiated in 1995 to promote the adoption of more efficient stoves in rural areas of western Kenya.
		Its goal was to improve the living and working conditions of women in rural households by enabling a significant and increasing number of women and their families to benefit from fuel-saving wood-burning stoves.
		It is meant to serve as a knowledgebase for those interested in researching and developing sustainable business models that address the needs of the world’s poorest citizens.
	www.nextbillion.net /activitycapsule/1271 (205 words)

	Resources
		ITDG – the Intermediate Technology Development Group – was founded in 1966 by the economist Dr. EF Schumacher and it aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.
		ITDG is a charity registered in the United Kingdom which works directly in four regions of the developing world – Latin America, East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia, with particular concentration on Peru, Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
		IDE is a non-profit organization that has developed special expertise in water technologies for small-scale irrigation and safe drinking water.
	web.mit.edu /d-lab/resources.htm (254 words)

	Technology Development
		It may be that these technologies cannot be patented or that it is not financially feasible to enforce patent rights for them.
		• Technology development or adaptation in one country can also benefit producers and consumers in neighboring countries when the technology is transferred through market mechanisms.
		Continuing technology adaptation over time may lead to greater benefits, but may also result in diminishing returns and higher costs.
	www.seepnetwork.org /3-14-01/technology-dev-1.html (1246 words)

	Scout Report Archives
		Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) is a charity organization based in the UK “using technology to change the world.” Starting with the people of poor communities, the group works to deve...
		The Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) is charged with integrating "understanding of scientific, technological, and economic elements in the formulation of national policies." Th...
		Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) is committed to the goal of creating "a society in which all people are equitably empowered by technology skills and usage." CTCNet brings together agenc...
	scout.cs.wisc.edu /Archives/SPT--AdvancedSearch.php?Q=Y&G27=758 (315 words)

	Kisumu Workshop- City Development Strategies
		A regional workshop on the Lake Victoria City Development Strategies (CDS) was organized by the Urban Management Programme (UMP) and the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) and hosted by the City of Kisumu between 11th - 13th March 2002.
		Overall, the workshop was an ideal opportunity to enhance regional partnerships, present shared challenges and propose strategies for undertaking strategy development and investment planning.
		At the end of workshop protocol, participants were unanimous that the 3 cities have to devise strategies of addressing challenges — and opportunities related to solid and liquid waste.
	staging.unchs.org /programmes/ump/kisumu_workshop.asp (328 words)

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