Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Introduction

Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements

		Introduction
		World neighbors in action
		Human settlement managers training programme - handbook for the organization and design of courses
		Bridging the gap: A participatory approach to health and nutrition education
		Self-evaluation: Ideas for participatory evaluation of rural community development projects
		Local authority supervisor training program, Kenya
		Urban housing and community development course
		Teaching rural community development
		Organization and management of field education
		Project management program Harare, Zimbabwe
		Primer taller de capacitacion para mujeres dirigentes de organizaciones femininas en el districto de San Martin de porres
		Getting the community into the act: 72 participatory activities for field workers and trainers
		Board of director's course: Instructor's manual and handouts
		Tecnicas educativas
		Women and graphics: A beginner's kit
		The tribune: A women and development quarterly
		How to perform in front of an audience
		Audiovisual communication handbook
		Dialogar para construir, diseno participativo en barrios populares de Bogota
		Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.
		1. Como leer un plano - 2. Mejoramiento poblacional
		1. Sistema constructivo 'bend' - 2. Prefabricacion, sistema 'bend'
		1. El replanted - 2. Como construir una vivienda con calicanto - 3. Como construir una vivienda con bloques de concreto - 4. Como construir una vivienda con cinva-ram - 5. Como construir una vivienda con horcones y concreto
		Small-scale production of lime for buildings
		Making building blocks with the cinva-ram block press.
		Building with stabilised soil blocks
		Small-scale production of local building materials
		Manual para la construccion de vivienda con adobe
		Casas de tierra, Minka no. 9, october 1982
		Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.
		Sistematizacion de una practica tecnica en vivienda social
		Manual de autoconstruccion
		Manual de construcao moradias nas aldeias comunais.
		When you build a house: a manual of construction details for Caribbean houses with emphasis on protection from strong winds
		Cooler in summer/warmer in winter: How to improve your shha house
		Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing
		Affordable sanitation
		Making your house safe against strong winds
		A campaign plan for tinsa valley
		Cooperative housingaffordability and related technical solutions
		Co-operatives: the affordable housing alternative
		Managing housing co-ops' money
		Estructura interna de una cooperativa de vivienda: Pobladores y educacion no. 1
		Co-operative housing, a handbook for effective operations
		Co-op housing - The best move we ever made
		Ideas on proposal writing and financial/technical assistance
		Information and training materials for low-cost water supply and sanitation
		Self-help housing improvements for lowest-income communities: Motivators' and trainers' guide
		Manual para proyectos de ayuda mutua

Introduction

The full involvement of communities in the development of shelter, infrastructure and services is an essential element of effective shelter strategies. All parties gain from co-operative and participatory forms of decision-making, implementation and maintenance in shelter programmes. Faced with large numbers of requests for appropriate training material which would support the practical application of community participation as a technique for carrying out shelter activities at the local level, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) undertook to collect and analyse available training tools and modules. The present collection of 48 items of training material allows a first overview of tools which have been developed in different parts of the world for the purpose of training government officials and community representatives. The catalogue is composed of loose sheets, each of them carrying information on a specific training tool, including the name of its producer, a description of its content and purpose, and an appraisal of its use.

Five CATEGORIES are used:

- A. TRAINING/EDUCATION;

- B. COMMUNICATION/INFORMATION;

- C. CONSTRUCTION;

- D. CO-OPERATIVES;

- E. MISCELLANEOUS.

Within each category, four FORMATS are distinguished:

- 1. Bulletin, newsletter, handout, brochure, poster;

- 2. Manual, handbook, cartoon strip, fotonovela;

- 3. Game, exercise;

- 4. Audiovisual.

Each sheet carries a title which is the title of the training or information tool presented. This title is given in its original language, and so are any captions drawn from the material. The sheets indicate at the top in which languages the title is available.