Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing

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

Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing

PRODUCED BY: GERMAN APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE (GATE), 1980.

AVAILABLE FROM: GERMAN APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE, GTZ-GmbH, POSTFACH 5180, D 6236 ESCHBORN 1, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COST: FREE

NUMBER OF PAGES: 152

This manual, which is designed for people working in selfhelp projects, describes building techniques and methods which were used in different parts of the world before modern industrial methods became available. It differs from other technical manuals, therefore, in that it contains methods which are neglected by modern expertise. These techniques have been reviewed by experts and adapted to modern needs to improve local construction methods without trying to change them.

The manual is applicable not only for constructing houses by self-builders (working either individually or in groups with locally obtainable material and their own techniques) but also for improving parts of simple houses already constructed. The manual is not region-specific; instead, it offers a selection of solutions to different problems, so that users can adapt them to their own needs.

The information is designed to assist people building houses with the help of a foreman who has the necessary skills to follow the details of the manual. The individual drawings are to guide him as the instructor of the group, while the technical illustrations and tables are for his own information. Illustrations in preference to written explanations are used, so that the instructions are as clear as possible.

The drawings can be ordered without the text, either the same size or enlarged four times, to allow for the insertion of written text in the local language, and, in this way, the drawings can be used as a teaching aid for a training workshop.

Example 1

Example 2