The theme of the seminar was: Labour-based technology for poverty reduction. The proceedings contain a summary of the plenary papers presented and the discussions that followed. The report covers the seminar objectives; methodology and evaluation of the seminar; a summary of the papers presented during the scene setting; summaries of all papers presented followed by the discussion highlights; full text of discussions arising from each presentation; reports on the field visit, and a presentation of the statements of the seminar. The papers (acc. no. 022-110449) provide the full text of all the papers presented, as well as those circulated